Sunday

Keeping Abreast of New Ice Cream Flavors

Keeping Abreast of New Ice Cream Flavors

What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? C’mon, don’t be shy. How about human breast milk ice cream? Seriously?

In London, an outfit known as Icecreamists is topping anything Baskin-Robbins or other dairy counters may have dreamed up. Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby has nothing on this one, ice cream fans.

Yep, this shop in Covent Garden is offering Baby Gaga, an ice cream made with human breast milk. In fact, a waitress dressed as Lady Gaga often delivers the goods, served in a martini glass and topped with liquid nitrogen for added effect.

Icecreamists is supposedly charging the British pound equivalent of about $22.50 per serving for human breast milk ice cream.

Holy culinary cleavage, Batman.

Is this a delicacy … or merely decolletage gone bad?

Would you be willing to sample this frozen dairy concoction, or does the mere thought send your stomach a-churning?

Apparently, more than a dozen women have ponied up to offer their own personal breast milk for making ice cream at the well-stacked, er, well-stocked dairy spot.

No one has revealed what the Icecreamists might be willing to pay for human breast milk for their new ice cream flavor. How might a dairy deposit compare, for example to blood donation? How would breast milk on-tap weigh out against other sorts of body fluid deposits (OK, let’s keep this G-rated, folks)?

Rumor has it that the Icecreamists sold out their initial supply of Baby Gaga human breast milk ice cream and had to go searching and advertising for new dairy donors.

Hey, it’s organic, right? Still, the public health issues could be quite complex.

Are your eyes rolling back into your head yet?

Actually, this is not a wholly original concept. Here are a few earlier, but similar instances of human breast milk being considered for dairy production.

If mammary, er, memory serves …

A year ago, a New York chef offered his restaurant patrons samplings of cheese produced from human breast milk. Daniel Angerer, of Klee Brasserie, made Mommy’s Milk Cheese from the secretions of his own fiancee’s mammaries.

Back in 2008, animal rights activists urged Ben & Jerry’s to make human breast milk ice cream. Ben & Jerry’s declined.

So what would you call human breast milk ice cream?

Food purists may feel like having a cow. Icecreamists’ frozen concoction may have gotten the goat of squeamish customers. It may take time for the risque-risking restaurant to button-up their vested interests in their own ice cream business. Certainly, we can hope they are not offering behind-the-scenes factory tours – for all sorts of reasons.

On the other hand, the introduction of Baby Gaga may unveil a few creative concepts. For example, what would you call such a flavor? 

And here's the question everyone may soon be asking. What sort of ice cream will Prince William of Wales and his bride-to-be, Kate Middleton, be serving with their wedding cake in April?


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Friday

Super Bowl Sunday: Are You Ready for Some Football Fun?

Super Bowl Sunday: Are You Ready for Some Football Fun?

Thank God it’s Friday.

And the Super Bowl is this weekend. Are you ready? Are you hosting a Super Bowl get-together? Where will you watch the big game?

Here are several helpful Super Bowl party items.

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Super Bowl Sunday gives athletes and athletic supporters an opportunity to gather for the NFL's biggest football game. Are you hosting or attending a Super Bowl party this year? Try these Super Bowl XLV word scrambles for a great icebreaker.

Super Bowl parties bring out the football fan in everyone, even folks who can't tell a sack from a blitz. Everybody's an armchair quarterback on Super Bowl Sunday. Test folks at your Super Bowl party with 10 Super Bowl trivia questions for football fans.

Super Bowl Sunday draws folks together for football-friendly fun. Athletes and athletic supporters gather to watch the Super Bowl, the NFL's biggest game. Are you hosting a Super Bowl party this year? Here's a fun activity and crowd icebreaker.

Kick off your Super Bowl party with super party invitations. Invite your favorite sports fans to join you for the big game by sending clever and creative announcements. Here are three easy, but fun, do-it-yourself Super Bowl party invitations you can use.

Super Bowl tickets are selling fast! Real and fake Super Bowl tickets are circulating nationwide. Can you spot a counterfeit Super Bowl ticket? Here are seven steps to identifying real Super Bowl tickets and ruling out fake Super Bowl tickets this year.

Super Bowl Menus and Recipes

Here's a quarter-by-quarter guide to catering the big game with no red flags. You pick the plays! After all, if you host the party, then you have the home field advantage!

This Super Bowl Scrimmage Salsa will drive your football party in the right direction! Make it mild for armchair quarterbacks, or spice it up to get them running!

Serve your sports fans this delicious hot treat during the final quarter of the game, to warm their tummies for the final end-run, as they head home! This hot spiced cider is ideal for sports parties, tailgating events, cold-weather picnics and even holiday gatherings.

This festive and colorful salad is ideal for a football party, tailgating event, picnic or any occasion. Simple to make, it looks elaborate and special.

Additional Super Bowl items of interest:

The ever-growing list of Super Bowl entertainers includes Christina Aguilera, Lea Michele, Fergie and The Black Eyed Peas, Keith Urban, Maroon Five and more.

U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting a Super Bowl Sunday party at the White House. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony top the President's VIP guest list. Who else is on President Obama's Super Bowl Sunday guest list?

On Super Bowl Sunday 2011, while millions prepare for the year's biggest football game, hundreds of churches will host events of a different sort. Sunday, February 6, 2011, is National Porn Sunday, a one-day anti-pornography event.

Which Super Bowl team do you like the best?

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Wednesday

Do you have a bucket list of movies to see?


Perhaps the idea has merit. The Yahoo! Movies staff has published a list of “100 Movies to See Before You Die.”

Based on the Yahoo! Movies list, I have some serious movie-watching to do. But it also seems I have seen more than my share of classic films.

Here are the flicks I have seen (so far) on their list.
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • The African Queen (1952)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • Blue Velvet (1986)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • Breathless (1960)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Chinatown (1974)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  • Die Hard (1988)
  • Do the Right Thing (1989)
  • Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  • Duck Soup (1933)
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  • Enter the Dragon (1973)
  • The Exorcist (1973)
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
  • The French Connection (1971)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • The Godfather, Part II (1974)
  • Goldfinger (1964)
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
  • Goodfellas (1990)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • Groundhog Day (1993)
  • A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Jaws (1975)
  • King Kong (1933)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • The Lord of the Rings (2001)
  • M*A*S*H (1970)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  • National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
  • Network (1976)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  • Princess Mononoke (1999)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • Raging Bull (1980)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  • Rocky (1976)
  • Roman Holiday (1953)
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  • Schindler’s List (1993)
  • The Searchers (1956)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • The Sound of Music (1965)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  • Titanic (1997)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  • Toy Story (1995)
  • The Usual Suspects (1995)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
And here are the films I have not yet seen from the Yahoo roster.
  • 400 Blows (1959)
  • 8 1/2 (1963)
  • Alien (1979)
  • The Battle of Algiers (1967)
  • The Bicycle Thief (1948)
  • Blow Up (1966)
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Grand Illusion (1938)
  • In the Mood for Love (2001)
  • It Happened One Night (1934)
  • The Lady Eve (1941)
  • M (1931)
  • Modern Times (1936)
  • Nosferatu (1922)
  • Paths of Glory (1958)
  • Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
  • Rashomon (1951)
  • Seven Samurai (1954)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
  • Wild Strawberries (1957)
  • Wings of Desire (1988)
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
  • The World of Apu (1959)
 What? No Ishtar?

What happened to The Princess Bride?

How many of these 100 movies have you seen?

Do you agree with the Yahoo! list? What must-see movies did their editors miss? Which of these movies do you think should be skipped? Why?


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