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This Week in Bacon
Most bacon lovers love bacon because it tastes so good. But who ever thought that you could use bacon for other purposes, like making a fashion statement? Apparently Jia Jem did, as she made a dress out of bacon and salami for an Aqua Teen Hunger Force birthday party the other day.
Yes, she actually used real meat:
I chose salami because it’s thin, keeps in one piece, and is quite cheap, and bacon because it looks very, um, meaty. I considered somehow vacuum-sealing sheets of meat with those sealers they have on the markets now, but the machines were too expensive for a one-time-only disposeable dress. I ended up using the K.I.S.S. method of construction, which involved a basic shift dress out of thick cotton. I layed the meat on top, then put clear vinyl over it and sewed tracks with clear thread. I used a wide stitch length to avoid perforating the meat to the point it might just… uh, slide down the bottom of the dress. I also blotted it all before sewing to get rid of as much grease as possible to avoid clouding the vinyl. Lastly, I made sure to bind the bottom of the dress with a strip of clear vinyl to catch drips. (I love talking about this; it’s so disgusting.) The whole project took about 6 hours, and I kept it refrigerated until the party. Good times.
[Via BoingBoing and Geekologie]
Palin Pasta
On this, the last day of the 2008 election, and thus probably the last day the name Palin will decorate our highway medians (at least for three and a half years), I give you a final culinary thought on the election season:
No, your eyes do not deceive you. What you see above is pasta in the form of tiny spinach and egg moose. I haven’t yet tried this miracle of modern pasta science, but I already know how it will taste–like bitter, bitter tears.
