Dirt Art

These are absolutely incredible!

Source: Lokwi

Washington McNugget Sells on eBay for £5000

“Not Eaten, New In Box.”

People will sell anything on ebay. From Michael Jackson’s underwear to a cornflake shaped like Illinois, there’s a myriad of odd-ball treasures waiting to be discovered.

Now added to that list is the chicken McNugget, which bears a resemblance to former president George Washington (pictured above and below).

The nugget was found by Rebekah Speight of Dakota City and was sold on ebay for over £5,000 ($8,100), when the auction ended on Monday to an unnamed bidder.

Speight discovered the nugget three years ago, after taking her children to McDonald’s. She was about to throw the final nugget away when she spotted its likeness and stashed it in her freezer (the obvious thing to do).

According to the Sioux City Journal in Iowa, USA, Speight sold it to raise $15,000 and send 50 children to summer church camp in Sioux City.

eBay had temporarily taken down the auction last month because it violated rules regulating expired food. Speight later received an email saying the site was “willing to make exceptions to help your cause.”

On the auction page for the McNugget Speight wrote: “By bidding on this rare President George Washington Chicken McNugget…not only will you have an opportunity to be the new owner of this rare find, but you will be investing in the lives of children.”

Steak Flowers

Yes, that’s right - tender pieces of sirloin steak, carefully crafted into a bunches of roses. We’re impressed and horrified in equal measures.

Movie Poster Cliches

Being the film buffs that we are, we found this collection of the ‘10 Movie Poster Cliches’ hysterical.

The above is a collection of ‘back to back’ posters, but check out all 10 cliches, including ‘through the legs’, and even ‘big heads in the sky over tiny people on a beach’ over at 22 Words.

Chocolate Kebab

Yes, you read that correctly.

Pizza for Your Toaster

Now, we don’t like to think of ourselves as overly impatient types but when it comes to the interminable wait that accompanies an oven pizza, we can usually be found frantically pacing the kitchen.

But it seems that our pizza-related prayers have been answered. Those food geniuses at Marks & Spencer have created the Pizza Toastie, which yes, is as brilliant as it sounds.

The £2 snack is ready in just four minutes after being placed into your usually rather one-note toaster. The pizzas have a pre-baked base and come in special pockets to prevent the total chaos of cheese going everywhere. Unlike the microwave equivalent, there’s no sogginess either.

The pizzas come in two flavours: margherita and spicy pepperoni.

M&S: yet again, we, and probably millions of people, thank you.

Source: Shortlist

German pensioner eats 64 year-old tub of lard

A German pensioner who kept a tub of American lard in his cupboard for 64 years after receiving it in an aid package, has declard it is fit for consumption after a taste test. 

Retired chemist Hans Feldmeier, 87, told the AFP news agency he had received the pig fat as a student in 1948 near the northern city of Rostock as part of the post-Second World War US aid programme.

He said he had been given the tub together with two tins of noodles and some milk.

“I just didn’t want to throw it away,” he explained.

Finally, after 64 years, he took it to food safety agents and was astonished at their appraisal.

“There is of course a slight lack of smell and taste,” sniffed Frerk Feldhusen, from the office of agriculture, food safety and fisheries in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Moreover, the lard was “of gritty consistency, difficult to dissolve and looked a bit old,” the officials added.

However, “all in all, given its level of freshness and its material composition, the product is assessed as satisfactory,” Feldhusen said, adding it would stand up to today’s definition of being fit for the dinner table.

Source: Telegraph