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Argentina's Primera Division was home to the most delicious form of heckling over the weekend when Racing fans threw a cheeseburger at Belgrano goalkeeper Juan Olave mid-match. It's unclear what the cheeseburger was supposed to symbolize, maybe it was just the most readily-available object to throw? Either way, Olave picked the dang burger up, took two bites and thanked the crowd. I played goalie in a rec league last year. I got a stitch from drinking too much water. This dude is out here eating cheeseburgers. Meanwhile the commenters on YouTube are afraid for his safety. You know what has...

An interesting video about preparing wild rabbit for your dinner plate, from the hunt to the final prepared dish...

We know it isn't meat, but it probally is not soylant green. Weigh in on the Jan in the box 2 for a dollar tacos. I admit I am scarfing them now. Me! a damn foodie! But seriously, nothing else has remained at this price point for 20 years.

Expedition 44 crew members, including Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly, are ready to sample the fruits of their labour after harvesting a crop of "Outredgeous" red romaine lettuce from the "veggie plant" growth system on the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts will clean the leafy greens with citric acid-based, food safe sanitizing wipes before consuming them. ... Nasa's plant experiment, called Veg-01, is being used to study the in-orbit function and performance of the plant growth facility and its rooting "pillows" which contain the seeds. The first "pillows" were activated, watered and cared for by Expedition 39 flight engineer Steve Swanson in...

Bagels are getting bigger, thicker and fluffier. While that might seem like a good thing, it's also throwing off the perfect cream cheese to dough ratio. Now scientists have come to the rescue with a new, 'scientifically correct' way to cut a bagel so that they can be loaded with more filling. A recent video shows how to cut a bagel into something known as a Möbius strip, which a famous mathematical structure that only has one side. The strip can be made by cutting a long strip of paper, putting a half twist in it, and gluing the ends...

Venezuelans are facing the prospect of a heat wave without their favorite beer, the latest indignity in a country that has seen shortages of everything from disposable diapers to light bulbs. Cerveceria Polar, which distributes 80 percent of the beer in the socialist South American country, began shutting down breweries this week because of a lack of barley, hops and other raw materials, and has halted deliveries to Caracas liquor stores. "This is never-never land," said Yefferson Ramirez, who navigated a rush of disgruntled customers Thursday behind the counter at a corner store in posh eastern Caracas. The shop has...

Sales of the pricey 'Guaca Bowle' bowl, or molcajete, will benefit his presidential run The bowl is the most expensive item in his store, which just launched online Critics are already calling him out for the surprising cost of the molcajete, pointing out that similar ones can be purchased for much less Jeb is selling for a whopping $75. Mr Bush's newly-launched online store offers 'Jeb!' T-shirts, baby onesies, signs, and hats - but it's his wittily-named 'Guaca Bowle' that's earned the most attention, and not for the right reasons. In what appears to be an attempt to add a...

A 26-stone woman has claimed that she is going blind after drinking 28 cans of the stimulant drink every dayA woman has claimed that she started to lose her sight after drinking dozens of cans of Red Bull every day. Lena Lupari, 26, has gained so much weight from drinking seven litres of the energy drink that her brain has swollen. The mother-of-three was ingesting 3,000 calories every day and was unaware of the harm she was doing to her body until she collapsed in June. She told the MailOnline: "I used to drink 28 cans of Red Bull...

A couple of threads ago, several Freepers posted some interesting mixed drinks; so I thought we'd do our thread this week on Beverages. I'm not much of a hard-liquor drinker - my favorite alcohol is beer, and my brand is pretty plebeian (they do make some excellent Superbowl commercial ads, though ;-). But I do have one punch recipe that I used to make for Christmas parties, and people liked it as much without alcohol, as with it. When I've made this, I usually made an extra amount without the bourbon, and froze it in some pretty molds; that way...

EATING spicy food like curry could hold the key to a long and disease-free life, a study suggests.Ingredients found in Britain’s favourite takeaway appear to slash the risk of cancer, heart disease and respiratory problems. Those who regularly eat spicy dishes can reduce the chance of heading to an early grave by 14 per cent, the researchers believe. The healing properties of fresh chilli peppers - especially the ingredient capsaicin - are thought to be behind the results of the decade-long study. Lu Qi, associate professor at Harvard School of Public Health, said: “Compared with non-fresh spicy foods such as...

Today’s discerning beer drinkers might be convinced that America’s watery, bland lagers are a recent corporate invention. But the existence of American beers that are, as one industry executive once put it, “less challenging,” has a much longer history. In fact, Thomas Jefferson, himself an accomplished homebrewer, complained that some of his country’s beers were “meagre and often vapid” nearly 200 years ago.

Imagine drinking a beige, liquid goo every time you get hungry. Instead of steak, sushi or your favorite lunchtime salad, it's a bottle of goo, three times a day. . That's the idea behind Soylent 2.0, a bottled meal replacement made in Los Angeles, ... Version 2.0 includes the vitamins and minerals, algal oil, isomaltulose (a slow-metabolizing ingredient naturally found in honey) and soy protein. It's pre-bottled, has a one-year shelf life and doesn't need to be refrigerated. The Soylent website claims each bottle contains 20% of a person's daily recommended value for essential vitamins and minerals, and 400 calories....

During a severe drought in 2011, JennaDee Detro noticed that many trees on the family cattle ranch in Cat Spring, Texas, withered, but a certain evergreen holly appeared vigorous. It's called a yaupon."The best we can tell is that they enjoy suffering," Detro says with a laugh. "So this kind of extreme weather in Texas — and the extreme soil conditions — are perfect for the yaupon."Detro began researching yaupon — a tree abundant in its native range, from coastal North Carolina to East Texas — and discovered that the plant contains caffeine and has a remarkable history.A thousand years...

The secret to making it to 105 years old is apparently a daily dose of alcohol. Making it five more years, however, means you may have to cut back. Those are the lessons coming from Agnes Fenton, who turned 110 on Saturday, when she officially became a supercentarian. Fenton told ABC in an interview for her 105th birthday that she enjoyed three Miller High Life’s and a shot of Johnnie Walker Blue Label scotch every day for nearly 70 years.

BEIJING – Chinese police are investigating if two distillers in the southwestern region of Guangxi added impotence treatment drug Viagra to their liquor in the latest food-safety scare in China. The Liuzhou Food and Drug Administration said that it found the Guikun Alcohol Plant and the Deshun Alcohol Plant in Guangxi's Liuzhou city were putting Sildenafil, more commonly known as Viagra, into three of their baijiu products. Baijiu is a fiery grain liquor that commands high prices in China.

The recall includes certain 3- and 4-pound packages of American and white American slices, Kraft said. Those affected have a “best when used by” date between December 29, 2015, and January 4, 2016, followed by the manufacturing code “S54″ or “S55.” “A thin strip of the individual packaging film may remain adhered to the slice after the wrapper has been removed,” Kraft said. “If the film sticks to the slice and is not removed, it could potentially cause a choking hazard.” The company said it has received 10 complaints and three reports of choking.

It was just a catty complaint. A hungry Brit called the West Yorkshire police seeking to rat out his girlfriend — and their pet feline — for devouring his precious bacon. “Me girlfriend has let the cat eat my bacon,” the man could be heard telling a dispatcher in an audio clip of the call released by police. “I want to press charges.” The bizarre complaint did not rattle the operator. She asked the man if he wanted to press charges against the cat or his girlfriend. Both of them, he said.

HARRISBURG, Pa., - Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has become the latest high-profile personality to weigh in on the debate over whether a hot dog qualifies as a sandwich. Rendell was asked by an interviewer to weigh in on the subject, which has recently become a topic of heated Internet debate, and he came out in favor of giving sandwich status to hot dogs. "It's got bread," Rendell told WPHT-AM. "Would you put a hoagie in the sandwich category? What I would think is the hot dog, the cheese steak, the hoagie, they're in the elite sandwich category...If you eat...

Not content with having the best whisky in the world, Suntory Holdings Ltd. plans to take its whisky out of this world and into space. The Japanese brewing and distilling company said this week it would send a total of six samples of its whiskies and other alcoholic beverages to the International Space Station, where they will be kept for at least a year to study the effect zero gravity has on aging. According to a spokesman at the company, the samples, which will be carried in glass flasks, will include both a 21-year-old single malt and a beverage that...

Whole Foods may be toast. Granted, it's toast made from pricey, gluten-free, organic honey oat bread. But toast nonetheless. Shares of Whole Foods (WFM) plunged more than 10% Thursday after the high-end natural grocery chain reported sales and profits that missed analysts' forecasts. Its outlook did not impress investors either.