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I like food. I like to eat. I like to eat a lot. But this just makes my stomach hurt!

It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is.

The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds.

Here’s another cutting board, but this “Cut & Carve” model is designed especially for cutting juicy meats and foods…

Double-sided and multi functional, this innovative and versatile chopping board cleverly features one flat and one angled cutting surface to aid in the draining and collection of food or juices. Its obvious use would be for a roast… so they added a meat-grip on one side to assist when carving.

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All these cooking gadgets are making me hungry and ready to do some cooking!

A great kitchen tool to keep your flavors (and contaminants) separate when cutting food… “and a perfect gift for the hopelessly disorganised!”

A clever tool for any kitchen, the Index Chopping Board color-codes four different boards according to the food that they should be used with. Made of polypropylene, each board is dishwasher-safe and can be easily stored away in the supplied, non-slip filing folder.

This reality check was a little sobering… (click the graphic to enlarge).

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You can read the accompanying New York Times article here.

Our family is guilty of it too, but we certainly will be making an effort to cut down on our waste — both for economic reasons and for moral reasons.

Yesterday afternoon, as I was getting ready to leave the office for the day to go meet with a vendor, I went into the kitchen to wash out my mug and found this in the kitchen sink…

Someone left their dirty plate with half-eaten food in the middle of the sink for someone else to take care of. Granted, in our office, we have Kitchen Services staff who collect dishes that need to be washed, load the dishwashers and re-shelve the clean dishes. It’s nice to have people that make sure we have clean glasses, plates and silverware for our use. But I think there are limits as to what should be expected of them and also reasonable standards for the rest of us on how we should take care of dishes we are finished with.

It seems a little much to leave a plate with food still on it in the middle of the sink — in a kitchen that our whole floor shares and uses. I don’t enjoy seeing others’ leftovers sitting in a sink that I want to use. Is it really so hard to quickly scrape the leftover food into the trash can? Is someone SO important that they can’t take the 10-15 seconds to do that after they’ve gone to the trouble of bringing it to the kitchen? Is it laziness or is it elitism (i.e. “that task is beneath me”)?

I’ll say this. It is rude. It is disgusting (especially when it becomes waterlogged and soggy from others using water at the sink). And it is completely unnecessary. Your momma doesn’t work here to clean up after you, so do it yourself!

As someone who makes a living in the marketing field, I can appreciate the challenge marketers often face when trying to make a lackluster product or service look attractive. A former client and good friend had a name for what we did: “Puttin’ lipstick on a pig” and “polishing a turd.”

Some advertising execs have turned this into an art form. And there’s no better subject than food.

The German website Pundo3000.com looks at some of the best examples of incredible marketing, where the photography on the packaging looks exponentially better than what’s actually inside. Here are a few of my favorites:

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