A Welsh View

A Diagram of a Pig

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Haggis Made Simple

Video: How to Eat a Triple Whopper

Only in Japan would you a find a Burger King advert like this.

Video: Can You Down A Beer This Fast?

Video: How To Pour 12 Cocktails At The Same Time

Video: Playable Angry Birds Cake

"10 hours to make, 2 minutes to destroy."

Creative Drink Drive Poster

A creative drink drive campaign from a vodka company.

Books and Bars

A new trend in Los Angeles is to combine bars with libraries. Styleture has photos of four different interiors around the city. I'd love to be able to photograph some for my other site, Travels with Beer.

Items Lost at Oktoberfest

Items lost at this year's Oktoberfest include a rabbit, a pug, a tennis racket, a leather whip and a tuba.

Video: How To Be A Waitress At Oktoberfest

The BBC has a video showing how to be a waitress at Oktoberfest. To be a really good waitress you'll need to carry 8 steins at the same time!

How Chicken Nuggets Are Made

Fan of chicken nuggets? You may not want to read this article about how they are made.

Video: Opening 200 Bottles of Beer in 1m 20s

Video: How To Open a Wine Bottle with a Shoe

Paul the Octopus Choose His Favourite Beer

Tesco Introduces Lasagne Sandwich

Anyone for a lasagne sandwich? The limited edition sandwich is made up of ‘two thick slices of bread and a filling of diced beef in a tomato and herb sauce layered with cooked pasta sheets and a creamy cheddar, ricotta and mayonnaise dressing’.

As you'd expect, the sandwich isn't the most healthiest weighing in at 565 calories and containing 26.9g of fat. [via]

Video: The Robot That Can Fetch Beer

Engineering start-up Willow Garage has hacked an open source robot to fetch beer from a fridge. Using a web interface, the engineers can select one of four different brands of beer and the robot will scoot over to the fridge, open the door and select the correct beer. It'll even open the beer for you! [Read more]

Alcoholic Art: Liquor Under a Microscope

BevShots are posh prints of beers, wines and cocktails photographed under a microscope and featured as modern art. Each BevShot has a distinctive design and color combination. The image above is of an English Oatmeal Stout.

You can view more at BevShots.com. [via]

Video: Beer Truck Tries To Navigate Muddy Pass

Video: How To Drink a Beer In Peru

A short documentary about how to drink a beer in Peru. There are some very specific rules and everyone shares the same glass.

The 9 Countries With The Worst Cuisine In The World

Apparently the UK came out top! There's absolutely nothing wrong with reheated kidney pie, black pudding or beans and cheese on a jacket potato.

Double Breakfast EggMc Big Mac

Anyone for a heart attack inducing Double Breakfast EggMc Big Mac? It weighs in at 2,360 calories, has 122g of fat and probably doesn't taste too great.

Video: The £21 Loaf of Bread

The ingredients may be superior but I don't think a loaf of bread is worth that much.

The Truth About Bottled Water

Click for the full version.

The Periodic Table of Sweets

Straight from my Brain has created a periodic table of sweets containing traditional favourites such as Everton Mints and Sugar Mice, more modern sweets such as Cola Bottles and foam sweets and some radioactive sweets (i.e. the fizzy ones)

Video: Cupcake Cannon!

The Rectum Bar, Vienna

This bar located in a giant digestive tract was spotted in Vienna. The bar is located in the large intestine. You can find another photo here.

If I ever get to Vienna and it's still there, you can expect to see it on Travels with Beer.

Woman Given Nationwide Pub Ban

A woman has been issued a Drinking Banning Order that prohibits her from entering any licensed premises in England and Wales for 2 years.

It is thought that the 20-year-old woman is the first person in the UK to be issued a nationwide ban. She is also banned from having alcohol in any unsealed container or consuming alcohol in any public place. [via]

50 Heart-Stopping Burgers

I want to try every single ones of these 50 heart-stopping burgers.

Video: Eating The World's Hottest Pepper

A man eats a whole bhut jalokia, or ghost chili, which has a Scoville heat measurement of 1 million units. It's not long before it starts to affect him and he goes very pale. [via]

Kit Kats of the World

A Flickr set containing over 100 different types of Kit Kat, many from Japan. [via]

Guinness Deep Sea Bar

In a global first, a lucky Belgian competition winner has traveled into the depths of the black stuff in the first ever Guinness Deep Sea Bar.

Evelyne Gridelet, 30, of Seraing, Belgium, won the incredible trip in the futuristic custom-built Guinness submarine as part of the Guinness Experiences competition, held during the global Guinness 250 celebrations.

Along with her husband, Arnaud Splendore and sister, Virginie Gridelet, Evelyne was flown to Sweden for an unforgettable four-day trip to explore the remote island of Högmarsö in the Stockholm Archipelago. Set against a winter wonderland, the highlight of their adventure, which took place during the last week of January 2010, was travelling to the bottom of the Baltic Sea in the Guinness Deep Sea Bar which was designed and modified exclusively exclusively for the trip, and raising a glass to Arthur Guinness.

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TV Pub Recreated From Bread

An artist has recreated a pub from the UK soap Coronation Street to celebrate the show's 50th anniversary.

The pub, which stand at 2.2m tall and 4.4m wide, was created by artist Lennie Payne. He used 135 loaves of bread, 26 crumpets and 24 pancakes. [via]

My Beer Blogs

If you are a fan of beers or travelling, you may be interested in my other blogs - Travels with Beer and Beerlens. Beerlens is a photography blog I run with a friend in Rochester, NY and features phots of beer, pubs, breweries and anything related to beer. Travels with Beer is a new blog that I set up last week and features photos from my travels around the UK and the world.

You Dropped Food on the Floor. Do You Eat It?

Beer Caps Game

Find the matching caps.

40 Giant Meals That You Can Have For Free If You Can Finish Them

Giant pizzas, burgers, burritos and sandwiches that you can have for free if you can finish them off.

Pub Decorates Exterior With 43 Christmas Trees

The Churchill Arms in London has decorated the exterior of the pub with 43 Christmas trees. I'm not sure if that's a record.

Periodic Table of Beer Styles

If you're a beer lover (and budding home brewer), you'll find this periodic table of beer styles very useful.

Video: Stella Artois Augmented Reality iPhone App

Stella Artois has released an augmented reality app for the iPhone that helps you find pubs near you that sell the old wife beater. The app is currently only available in the US but will be released in the UK soon. [via]

Marmite Shop, London

If you love Marmite, you'll love the temporary Marmite shop that is on London's Regent Street until early January. The shop is open 7 days a week and sells everything from homewares to artwork, clothes to food, books to special Christmas boxes. You can also get some toast and marmite. I'll be checking it out this Saturday.

Video: How To Open A Bottle Of Wine With Your Shoe

World Record Breaking Burger

This huge burger, cooked up by a US restaurant, weighs in at a gut-busting 13 stone.

The record-breaking burger is topped with a dozen tomatoes, ten onions, more than 50 rashers of bacon, and a pound of sliced cheese.

The burger costs $499 (£333). Link

Video: How Bacon is Made

My favourite part was when the skin was sliced off to be made into delicious pork scratchings.

Video: World's Biggest 'Pint' of Beer

A town in Romania has built the world's biggest 'pint' of beer. It stands at 6m high, weighs 3 tons and has a capacity for 11,000 litres.

The Last Meal Of A Condemned Prisoner

A series of documentary photography of the meals selected by prisoners before their execution. Would be nice to have some background information about each meal.

Video: A Cabbie's Guide To Eating In London

Cab driver 'Mudzi' Mehmet goes on a culinary taxi tour around London and shows some of the best places in London for coffee, bacon rolls and deserts.

Cheeseburger Pizza

It may not look too good but this cheeseburger pizza with BBQ sauce probably tastes good. Link

Beer Lens

If you like beer (and who doesn't!), you may be interested in a photo blog that me and @shotbykim have started called Beer Lens. The blog will feature photos of beer and everything beer related from the UK and the US.

North Korea Opens US-Style Fast-Food Restaurant

A US-style fast-food restaurant has opened in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

According to Choson Sinbo, a North Korean newspaper operating out of Japan, the restaurant sells "minced beef with bread", rather than hamburger and one will set you back $1.70 (£1.03) which is almost half the daily income of an average North Korean.

Link

Video: World's Largest Prawn Cocktail

The Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB), in association with Royal Greenland, has created the world's largest prawn cocktail.

Constructed in a 1.5m tall champagne glass and using of 50kg of prawns, the equivalent of 550 regular portions, the dish also used a crate of lettuces and more than 10 litres of Marie Rose sauce. Link