Not Quite A Celebrity Death - Irvine Robbins - May 5, 2008

Irvine Robbins - May 5, 2008

As with Herb Peterson's passing earlier this year, FTANG! doesn't consider this a true "Celebrity Death", and won't post it as such... but it still warrants a mention. Irvine Robbins, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream, has died of complications related to old age. He was 90.

Not Quite A Celebrity Death - Fredric Baur - May 4, 2008

Fredric Baur - May 4, 2008

The designer who invented the Pringles tube was so proud of his achievement that he's been buried in one.

Fredric J Baur asked for some of his ashes to be put in a tube and interred in a grave in his home city of Cincinnati. Baur, who died May 4th at the age of 89, created the tube and the curved system for stacking the potato snacks inside it in 1966.

Baur's children honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave. The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can.

Not Quite A Celebrity Death - Herb Peterson - March 25, 2008

Herb Peterson - Inventor of the Egg McMuffin - March 25, 2008

With respect to his family and friends... while FTANG! doesn't consider this a true "Celebrity Death", and won't post it as such... this still warrants a mention. Egg McMuffin inventor Herb Peterson has died in Santa Barbara at age 89. Who on this planet hasn't eaten one of these breakfast grease-balls on a road-trip, or in the office cafeteria?!?

When Cheeseburgers Attack!

An Austrian doctor filed a complaint after a truck driver threw a cheeseburger at him for driving too slowly.

But police told Hannes Kohl, from Vienna, that burger throwing was not an offense.

He was hit on the head by the cheese burger thrown by a passing truck driver through his open car window.

Dr. Kohl, who was on his way to a medical conference in the Czech Republic, said: "I was going slowly but that was no excuse for this outrageous attack.

"I complained to the police but they told me it was not an offense to throw a burger at someone, and my insurance company also refused to pay up even though there was melted cheese and ketchup on my suit and all over my car."

Damn It Feels Good To Be A Breakfast Gangsta

A Hong Kong design company has come up with the ultimate breakfast for wannabe gangsters - gun-shaped eggs. Hong Kong-based Urban Trend has designed a range of gun-shaped egg fryers which it says will be shooting into stores later this year.

Customers will be able to serve up their eggs in a variety of weapon shapes, including a Magnum .45 and an Uzi.

"Whatever the reason, gun-shaped objects seem to be all the rage these days," a company spokesman said.

Made from stainless steel, the wacky kitchenware will be distributed to 40 countries worldwide and will sell in packs of four.

FTANG! Movie Moment - Tapeheads

FTANG! Movie Moment - 1988's Tapeheads featuring John Cusack and Tim Robbins.

FTANG! asks the immortal question... "Now when's the last time you had a wing with a waffle? Well that's too long, it oughta be unlawful!"

Isn’t this considered ‘Good Luck’ during Mardi Gras?

A Czech woman has lodged a complaint after cutting into a loaf of bread and finding a fresh baked mouse.

Hana Korinkova, 35, said the mouse dropped out of the middle of the bread onto the side of the table.

Health and safety inspectors who are investigating say the bakery, in Brest, faces a large fine.

Food inspector Martina Smidtova said: "When we inspected it we found the bakery broke a whole range of health and safety regulations.

"There was nothing to stop rodents from getting freely into stores of flour and dough."

Nazi Scientific Experiment or Dinner Tonight?

This story is already all over the Internet, but Ftang! couldn’t resist posting it as well.

Nothing screams 'EAT ME!' quite like a cheeseburger. In a can. That’s right. A cheeseburger. In. A. Can. (On a side note, there's one thing that will make you scream 'Gott in Himmel', and that's a cheeseburger in a can. Go figure.)

Isn’t it just mind boggling what those sneaky and crafty Germans have come up with? And wait just a cheeseburger-pickin'-moment... didn’t the Allies put an end to all their dastardly scientific experiments 65 years ago?! No? Well, it appears that they’re back at it.

Now Ftang! sure does love a good cheeseburger. Hell, who doesn’t? Well, some of those PeTA whackjobs, Ftang! supposes. They’re probably not too keen on cheeseburgers. Bastiches. Regardless, Ftang! sure does love them cheeseburgers. In fact, Ftang! has even traveled to the American Mecca in the desert of Nevada for some pretty decent cheeseburgers. The Midwest needs an ‘In-n-Out Burger’ something fierce!

Uncanned, it looks remarkably similar to those hot lunch cheeseburgers Ftang! used to get in parochial school. Which is NOT a good thing.

Mmmmm... That's Good Tongue

Authorities in Slovenia are investigating after a piece of human tongue was served up in a hospital cafeteria.

A doctor at the town hospital in Izola in southern Slovenia complained about the strange looking piece of meat in his meal after he ordered a chicken risotto in the hospital cafeteria.

The doctor insisted it was not chicken, and after an argument with staff, the piece of meat was sent for tests - which later showed it was part of a human tongue.

Health inspectors have closed the kitchen and are reviewing hygiene standards.

Managers said the small piece of tongue could have been accidentally dropped into the food by a doctor who had come into the cafeteria straight after treating a patient.

They also said that it could have been added to the food supplies before they were delivered to the hospital.

The spokesman told the main Slovenian daily paper Delo: "I can say clearly that we have never used patients parts in any of our dishes."