Entries tagged with 'Oddities'
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Deep-Fried Pizza
Damn Scots took my idea. If someone can open a restaurant that just serves grilled cheese, offers only cereal, or that specializes solely in PBJ, then where's my gimmick? My idea struck while discussing deep-fried turkey with Slice's own Seltzerboy just prior to Thanksgiving. People love pizza. People love deep-fried food. A deep-fried pizza would surely be a hit. Like grilled pizza, it would be one of those things so deceptively simple that you'd wonder why it had never been done before. But then this morning Tien e-mails me this story in the New York Times that briefly mentions deep-fried...Packin' A Piece-a
Delivering pizza is a dangerous job. But is it so dangerous as to warrant a stash of weapons that included 26 handguns, eight rifles, and two shotguns? That's what cops found in the apartment of a Queens pizza delivery driver after pulling him over on Friday. After discovering a loaded .22 in his car, the driver told police he had one more pistol at home. That turned out to be an understatement, as the Daily News divulges: It was a weapons cache more likely to be found in Fallujah than Far Rockaway. Cops seized an arsenal - 26 handguns, eight...Meet The (Pizza-Friendly) Press
Meet Brian Williams (right), the man who has replaced Tom Brokaw on NBC's Nightly News program. Though we are sad to see Mr. Brokaw leave the show—our earliest memories include watching him read the news after we had finished supper—we approve of his successor. That's because Mr. Williams is a talking head we can relate to. From an Associated Press story making the rounds: Tom Brokaw's successor is a NASCAR dad who considers pizza night with the kids sacred -- thin crust, please -- and listened to hundreds of hours of White House tapes from the Johnson administration for fun......Free Pizza For Your Input
Hungry? Cash-strapped? Female? Know something about hair products? Then you might want to attend this focus group, which promises free pizza and soda in exchange for your opinions. From Craig's List: I'd love to have your input for a focus group I am conducting on a womans hair product. The meeting is this Thursday starting at 6:30 PM. Participants get free pizza & sodas and the chance to make some new friends. If you are interested please email me at focusgroupnyc@hotmail.com...This Is Just Unreel
While reading this item on Colin Farrell on Hollywood gossip blog Defamer, I discovered Query Letters I Love, a blog chronicling some really ludicrous screenplay pitches. While going through the archives, laughing out loud at my desk, I ran across this one: "I was given a script a few years back entitled PIZZAMAN. The plot consisted of a bitter 50 year old pizzaman who was never able to quit the job he started as a teenager. So to take his revenge on a cold and heartless world, he hacks people apart with a pizza slicer. Oh, and he bakes a...'A Pound Of Cheese'
Speaking of cheesy stuff, here's a blip from the Daily News, on celebrity voiceovers in commercials: Hitting the mute button during television commercials can also mean missing out on your favorite celebrities who led their voices to high-profile sales campaigns. The latest: Julia Roberts' Georgia-peach purr surfaced in AOL's $30 million "Members rule" branding blitz. That pits her against a bombshell with an even huskier voice: Demi Moore, urging Chevy on our country's drivers. For boy-toy appeal, there's - no, not Ashton Kutcher, but Christian Slater's voice-over for Panasonic's "Fascinating people, fascinating products" campaign, ads produced by Grey Worldwide to...Pac Man Fever
When Slice debuted on the weblog scene a little over a year ago, more than a few people commented that the c in our logo looked like Pac-Man. It has come to our attention that the reverse is true. Pac-Man looks like our logo. Well, he looks like a pizza pie with a slice missing, anyway. And pizza is exactly where the inspiration for the hungry little dude's shape came from. Slice was pleasantly surprised to read this item from food weblog The Hedonista, which led us to Pac-Man's origin story. Seems game creator Toru Iwatani (right) was eating a...Power Trio: Teenagers, Computers, Pizza
Another blip from the Times: If teenagers are such whiz kids with computers, why are all the computers designed by adults? Kent Savage, chief executive of Digital Lifestyles Group in Austin, Tex., pondered the question. Then he did something. The result is the hip-e, a desktop personal computer that has been reimagined by teenagers for teenagers — a market 33 million strong in the United States.... It can be customized to look funky or fabulous using digital skins. A built-in television tuner card makes recording and viewing television as easy as pressing one button. Other preset buttons promise movie rentals,...Pizza In Distress
From the New York Times: Each year, thousands of distress signals send rescuers around the globe scrambling. More often than not, the signals lead not to an emergency, but to an unintentionally activated distress beacon on a plane, aboard a ship, or in the backpack of a mountain climber. Now and then, though, the errant signal comes from a malfunctioning appliance. Incidents like the one in Oregon, which was first reported by The Corvallis Gazette-Times, in fact, have played a part in nudging the international search-and-rescue community away from the 121.5 frequency that, among other shortcomings, is subject to interference...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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