burnt offerings – Page 2 – Notes On A Meal

In case you missed it.

I have been on a marketing kick lately, drawn to those golden gems of advertising that make you laugh or nod or think. I find the thought and creativity of great ads to be truly inspiring. So to celebrate the wonders of food advertising, I have put up a couple of truly great ads. The first …

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Food In Space 1

Space is not a human friendly place. It is a vacuum that will suck the life out you in about 14 seconds. In 1965, a NASA researcher was accidentally exposed to a near vacuum and his last conscious memories was the water on his tongue beginning to boil. Fortunately, he was saved and we …

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Big mother shucker.

What has 6 000 time the atmosphere of the earth, blasts water at 40 000 PSI and removes the flesh from living shellfish in less then a blink of an eye?

Where tooth decay comes from.

Back in the good ol’ days when color t.v. was new and the world had yet to go 3D, Kellogs released this nifty little ad. Their secret weapon for flavor superiority? Sugar. Baked in sugar. click to see full size. Thanks to gizmodo for this one.

The science of food decay

What happens to food when it goes bad? Well, it rots. The enzymes and sugars in food continue to do their thing and take food past the point of being ripe and ready and begin to cause decay. Here are a collection of clips that demonstrate the process of decay.