Curious about foodies stories that just don’t make the normal headlines? Well, for all of you out there looking for a food-related laugh, there’s the James Weird Awards. James Weird is basically a catch-all posting tag that ‘Grub Street’ (NYMag’s foodie daily blog) has started using to help classify all the crazy food news out there. Hey, the world is a big place, and the internet has made it so that every even close to newsworthy tidbit of information is shot out into cyberspace. So, for your review, a few of the weirdest food newsbites out there..
Customs officials at the Texas-Mexico border seized 58 pounds of undeclared iguana meat. “This is a substantial amount of iguana meat,” said one official. “Well beyond what would be considered as personal use.” The exotic reptile meat was apparently destined to fill tamales.
Have you found Jesus yet? Then look in your pizza box: A pizzeria in Australia has found Jesus Christ’s face in a three-cheese pizza. Dubbed “Cheesus,” the holy pizza was sold on eBay for upwards of a hundred dollars
A Florida man stole and then crashed a Krispy Kreme truck containing 338 boxes of doughnuts. He told police that he took the truck “because he needed somewhere to sleep,” but given that ten grams of marijuana were also found at the scene, he probably just needed something to snack on.
-bryan
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