banana still in the peel

Somebody has invented a banana corer. I guess they wanted to make bananas more interesting. By filling them with sweetness!

I’ll try to explain. You put the unpeeled banana in the holder. Then, you put this metal thing that looks like a giant needle through the banana. You then have a small hole at the top. Then you squeeze something in there like caramel or chocolate or whipped cream.

You eat it and find a tasty surprise!

This was created in Argentina. I’m guessing they want to sell more bananas and this will make bananas more fun.

I don’t think they need to sell me on this. I eat bananas like crazy. They are already sweet and so easy to eat! Just peel and eat! Done!

I might fill my banana with peanut butter. Because I eat that almost every day. I will put some peanut butter on bread and put a banana on it. It looks kinda like a hot dog. Well…if the bun was a piece of wheat bread and the ketchup was peanut butter and the hot dog was a banana.

Ok, so it’s almost nothing like a hot dog. But it’s good! I don’t even cut the banana. THAT is how lazy I am. And you know what? I don’t care! It’s So Good. It’s like a Banana in a Blanket.

I wonder if you can inject any other fruits with caramel? I mean, you could core an apple, but the caramel center would be too hard to get to.

On the other hand, I guess they already solved that by putting the caramel or chocolate on the outside.

Strawberries and blueberries are too small to really inject with anything.

OH! What about carrots! That’s a vegetable that you could inject something into! Maybe caramel? Like caramel carrots? I wonder if that’s any good. I’ll have to try that. Carrots deserve to get banana respect.

I’m off to inject fruits and vegetables.

Enjoy Everything.

-lopez

happy money

CNN recently asked people “How much money do you need to be happy?”

Guess what! Most people said that if they had about $100,000 a year, they would be happy!

Wanna know how many people said that money can’t buy happiness? 6%! That’s it! And they are kinda right. Money can’t actually buy an emotion. BUT! It does buy all the stuff that gives me the happy emotion!

Like jelly beans.

$100,000 is SO far out of my realm of money options that I can’t even imagine what I’d do with that much money.

Ok. That’s a lie. I know exactly what I would do. I would buy a pool. Then I would fill it with jelly beans. Then I would swim in it every day. And have a pool party every week with mutant, party jellyfish. I would also invite peanut butter over. Because peanut butter and I are besties.

I should figure out a way to make millions of monies. OH! You know what I think would make me rich? Fruit-shaped containers.

Many fruits are soft when they are ripe. And that makes them so hard to transport! I think they make a banana one, but why stop there?! I just had a pear. It was all beaten up because it was in my bag! There is no pear container!

Or an avocado case. Because you don’t want that all messed up. Or containers for watermelon slices! I use my sandwich container, but it’s not a perfect fit. Sometimes I have to squish some of my melon to make it fit. NOBODY wants squished melons!

I will call it the “FruitCase” and I will sell it on infomercials late at night when people are tired and desire unbruised fruit.

I’m off to get fruity rich.

Enjoy Everything.

-lopez

aquari-yum

An aquarium in Dallas decided to feed jellyfish some peanut butter for a while to see what happened.

Guess what DID happen! That’s right! Peanut Butter Jellyfish!

They put peanut butter into the tank with the jellyfish and after the jellyfish absorbed all the peanut buttery goodness, they grew up to be big and strong peanut butter jellyfish!

Why do this? Because jellyfish were always kinda jealous (jellyous?) of crabs. Crabs can be made into cake. Everybody loves cake.

So, jellyfish wanted to be made into a beloved food as well.

Who wouldn’t?

I mean, I’m sure you remember the “Mole v. Horse” decision of ’39. The big court case on where “guaca” would end up.

Horses settled on “radish,” but they have never been happy with it.

I know it seems like having the word “jelly” in their name already makes them pretty sweet. But do you ever just eat jelly plain out of the jar?

You do? Yeah…me too. And we are totally normal.

But they wanted something with a little more kick. And THAT is why scientists like to feed peanut butter to jellyfish!

I hear that they are going to start feeding mackerels some noodles and cheese. Mackereloni and Cheese might be the next display we see at the aquarium.

I’m off to put some butter in the halibut tank.

Enjoy Everything.

-lopez

the royal society of chemistry

Sounds like an official place, right?! Like, the King and Queen of the Periodic Table! (Written Ki and Qu.) Making decrees and such about chemicals!

“I decree that yttrium is totally fun to say and we will celebrate it today!”

Done! It’s decreed! You can’t fight it because chemistry and decrees always win!

Okay, so you know about the Royal Society of Chemistry. Do you know about the British Cheese Board? It’s not a wooden board for cutting cheese. It’s an actual group of people who promote cheese. Yes. This is real.

I know this doesn’t make sense yet, but it will…I think.

The British Cheese Board (BCB) cannot figure out cheese on toast. They are having a competition where people will send in their recipes on how to make cheese on toast.

I am NOT making this up.

I believe I have a solution to their problem. Put cheese on toast. Done.

I guess it’s more complicated in Britain. They are going to get recipes from the citizens and then send the top eight (which I imagine will all consist of cheese going on toast) to the Royal Society of Chemistry. For scientific testing.

Again, ALL OF THIS IS TRUE. Are we done with using chemistry for something useful? Is Cheeseontoastium the newest element on the Periodic Table?

I hope the British Peanut Butter Board knows about this. They should team up with the Royal Society of Physicists to discover the secrets of the universe. But only if you send them your peanut butter on toast recipes. They’re having trouble figuring that out.

Luckily they know how to put jam on their toast. That’s actually how we keep the Earth from crashing into the sun. Thanks to the British Jam Board and the Royal Society of Solarists.

Imagine the secrets we’d discover if they started the British Hummus Board! (I know, I’m blowing your mind! And using the same joke too many times!)

I’m off to cheese my toast.

Enjoy Everything.

-lopez

in the mood for food that’s good

Make sure you say “good” like “food” and “mood.” It’s funner that way.

I sometimes think that I should start my own food blog. Not that anyone reads my non-food blog. And not that anyone likes any of the food choices I make. But, I do often write about my adventures in fooding because every new food experience is an adventure!

Sometimes it ends with a new favorite food. Other times…well…my tummy doesn’t like me so much and questions my decisions.

I DID try some new things recently that I encourage you all to do. Today. And again tomorrow.

Apples and hummus! Not just ANY hummus. SUPER HUMMUS! I found this stuff the other day because I was looking to get into hummus. I know I’ve had it before and I’ve always liked it, but I never really kept up with it. We casually hung out, but I wanted to make us a little more BFFy. Luckily, I found Super Hummus.

I like to think that if Superman or The Hulk or Wolverine had a hankerin’ for hummus, they would eat Super Hummus. Therefore, since I’m part super, I had to buy Super Hummus.

Now that I AM a regular hummuser, I decided to go off the vegetable path and try it with an apple. Bear with me, it gets a little complicated here. It tasted good…after the first few slices. See, the apple had to dry a little before it was good. It started too juicy and that didn’t work well with the hummus.

As you may or may not know, I’ve been experimenting with peanut butter and honey. I love the combination of the two. I also love cinnamon. The word and the spice. One of my favorite things to say is “cinnamon in it.”

Go ahead. Say it really fast. Fun, isn’t it! I can’t stop saying it! Cinnamoninit!

Now I CAN say it all the time! My mom suggested some honey AND cinnamon AND peanut butter on toast. Four of my favorite things combined! My mom is a genius. It is amazing!

And now, if I ever have company that wants a snack, I will make this for them. Wanna know why? I’ll show you…

You/Guest: “This is great! How did you get toast to taste so fun?”

Me: “It has cinnamon in it!”

You/Guest: “CINNAMONINIT!”

As a bonus, I just found out that “Toast To Taste” is also really fun to say.

I’m off to toast to taste cinnamon in it.

Enjoy Everything.

-lopez