A blast from the past...
Still funny after all these years.
And a new one...
Our Culture: November 2008 Archives
It's a spice gun. It's still in the development stages so there's going to be a waiting period involved in obtaining a gun that shoots spices. I personally can't wait for the spice pump shotgun. Racking a cartridge of basil -- with that "cha-chunk" noise -- really shows your turkey you mean business. That is it would if the turkey weren't already dead.
This device, which goes for $50 from something called cuisinetechnology.com, is the Polyscience Smoking Gun.
You put sawdust in the bowl and it injects smokey goodness into your turkey.
Hmmmm...Beavis and Butthead could have a good time with something like that. Just sayin'.
It's the Stadium Gal.
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Thank me later.
A colleague points out that the Stadium Gal also doubles as a leg warmer.
The great folks at Hogmalion.com have come up with a fetus-shaped cookie cutter.
Now you can surprise your friends and spice up that holiday party with festive cookies shaped like four-month-old fetuses.
Here's a picture of the cookie cutter:
And here are pictures of the cookies:
Here is a transcript of my e-mail interview with the creator of the fetus cookie cutter, a guy who goes by the name Big Pig, proprietor of Hogmalion.com:
Who are you guys?
The company's called Hogmalion--sort of a pathetic inversion of Shaw's Pygmalion and that whole Henry Higgins / Eliza Doolittle dynamic, except that while the Professor takes that Cockney flower girl and turns her into a proper lady, we sort of do the opposite.
How did you come up with the fetus cookie cutter?
Nature abhors a vacuum, right? When a system is recognized as incomplete, nature steps in and fills in the gaps. We had, unfortunately, up until recently, a Baked-Goods-and-Goodies Universe tragically without Fetal Bites.
No, actually, about ten years ago I baked up a box of Fetal Bites for an old girlfriend. We were celebrating the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I presented them to her wearing a pair of "Roe. V Waders," the hip-high rubber pants for the pro-choice fisherman in your life.
Would this make a great gift for my mother?
If your mother is John Waters it would.
I sent a link to my wife -- she's at work -- and she said it was making her hungry. I'm not sure what to make of that. What do you make of it? Should I be concerned?
That depends. Was the last film your wife saw "Leave it to Beaver" or "Cannibal Holocaust"?
Is it supposed to make some kind of political statement or is the statement that all political statements are in the eye of the beholder and therefore, dumb?
I hope not. I'd be worried about a world in which political statements were being made through cookie cutters.
What kind of reaction have you gotten with it? Has anyone really come unhinged in a way that's completely hysterical?
I think I sold the first one this year at Crafty Bastards, the Washington City Paper's alternative craft fair, and the reactions were pretty much the same across the board: "Oh my God, that is wrong on so many levels"; more often than not, though, those same folks bought one.
Would it be offensive to put sprinkles on your fetus cookies? I like sprinkles.
Sure, or maybe a licorice umbilical cord. I love sprinkles, too; but I would probably stay away from the sprinkles. I'm afraid it might make your cookies a little too eczematic. I mean, it's hard to make a case of Scabies sexy, even if it's chocolaty and delicious.
So there you have it. Just in time for holiday gift giving.
Finally, here's a video of a woman making fetus-shaped cookies:
