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- New York Panini Shop Serves Alcoholic Sandwiches
- High on Art – Brazilian Artist Paints with Marijuana Smoke
- Vegetarian Designer Opens Special Butcher Shop with Fluffy Meats
| New York Panini Shop Serves Alcoholic Sandwiches Posted: 16 Aug 2012 03:50 AM PDT
I bet you never thought you’d ever be able to get drunk on sandwiches, yet here we are. The Salumé panini shop in New York City has created the world’s first line of alcoholic sandwiches, infused with different kinds of liquors, like scotch or gin. I’ve covered a few really weird ways to get wasted, like vodka eye-balling or drinking hand-sanitizer, but I never thought I’d be writing about alcoholic sandwiches actually sold by a sandwich shop. At New York’s Salumé panini shop, customers can fill their bellies and get wasted at the same time, and I don’t mean by washing down the food with some beer. This innovative establishment is serving the alcohol inside the sandwich, so you’re sort of eating and drinking at the same time. Their unique menu includes items like prosciutto & gin sandwiches, Surryano ham & rye whiskey or prosciutto & beetroot with scotch, and prices range from $11 for a scotchwich to $18 for the Bulleit bourbon and ham. It’s not yet clear how much alcohol is actually in the sandwiches, with some sources claiming the booze is “dripped” over the tasty treats, and other saying it’s “poured”. Also, it’s not mentioned if you need to be over 21 to order one of Salumé’s alcoholic sandwiches, especially since the alcohol in the food is not cooked in any way, thus retaining all its strength. One thing is for sure, these things give the word “toast” a whole new meaning. Enjoy!
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| High on Art – Brazilian Artist Paints with Marijuana Smoke Posted: 16 Aug 2012 02:31 AM PDT
For his latest series, aptly entitled “Blow Job – Work of Blowing”, Brazilian artist Fernando de la Rocque has created images of political and religious icons using marijuana smoke. Needless to say that has sparked a great deal of controversy in the art world. We’ve seen some pretty unique works of art created with smoke, like the ghost paintings of Rob Tarbell or the smoke-painted bottles of Jim Dingilian, but none as controversial as Fernando de la Rocque’s. The daring artist using a unique technique to paint images onto a white canvas – he blows marijuana smoke on pre-cut stencils laid down on the canvas to dye paint and shade the desired areas. The results are pretty impressive, but it’s the bizarre technique that attracted the most attention, with many wondering how he must feel after completing one of his smoky artworks. Photo: Fernando de la Rocque In an interview with Brazilian newspaper The Rio Times, de la Rocque said “more important than freedom to smoke marijuana is the freedom to think about it and make art with it. Polemic issues divide opinions, forcing people to think and debate. Inertia is useless when we want to overcome something." The idea of using marijuana smoke to create art has been in development for some time, and Fernando’s similar paintings created with wine confirm his artistic motivation: “"I always like to create art with pleasure." Photo: Fernando de la Rocque Photo: Fernando de la Rocque Photo: Fernando de la Rocque Photo: pakalil Photo: pakalil High on Art – Brazilian Artist Paints with Marijuana Smoke was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
| Vegetarian Designer Opens Special Butcher Shop with Fluffy Meats Posted: 16 Aug 2012 01:27 AM PDT
It’s called “Aufschnitt” (German for “cold cuts”) and it’s a unique butcher shop created by designer Silvia Wald, who is actually a vegetarian. What’s even more bizarre is that she makes all the “meats” herself, by hand, out of fabric… Every item on display at Silvia Wald’s Aufschnitt shop looks good enough to eat, only nothing is really edible. The young designer creates all her products from textile material and sells them as pillows, cushions or cool decorations. An engineer for clothing technology, Wald started making her delicious fluffy meats in 2009, as a small project, but after seeing how popular her few sausages were, she started making all kinds of other textile foods, from salami to large pieces of ham, from materials like cotton stretch velvet, lycra, wool or micro fibre. Then she opened her own little butcher shop in Berlin, where she sells her creations to both meat lovers and vegetarians. The designer says her favorite clients are the kids who always like to take a bite of her forever-fresh products, just to see if they’re edible. Photo: Cut-Magazine The 32-year-old designer makes all kinds of delicious meats at Aufschnitt, from cured Seranno ham to sausages and mortadela. People buy them as neck-rests and pillows, but you can also find bratwurst hair-clips and salami slice-shaped badges. Silvia Wald says her most popular textile meat is the large ham, which people like to use as clubs in pillow fights. She tries to make her cold cuts as realistic-looking as possible, by using traditional sewing techniques. Photo: Cut-Magazine So if you’re ever in Berlin, Germany, and want to buy something meaty for your vegetarian friends, be sure to stop by the Aufschnitt butcher shop and pick up one of their fluffy treats.
Photo: Aufschnitt.net Photo: Aufschnitt.net
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