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    This Week in Odd History (March 7, 1897): Dr. Kellogg Serves Corn Flakes at the San

    This Week in Odd History, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg dished up the first serving of corn flakes at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, known affectionately as the San.

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    Blog on Blog Action: justJENN recipes

    If you haven’t checked out this blog, do it immediately! Whether you bake, cook, or just love geeky stuff, you’ll find things there to make you drool. I think the first time I came across it was when one Twitter friend or another retweeted something...

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    [Retro Bunker] Imperial Margarine Commercials

    Instant gratification: we’d all love some, but these days it’s hard to come by. Probably the fastest way to get a little bit of love is to run down to your local Burger King and pick up one of these babies: Or you can pop...

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    Scott Pilgrim vs. the Shepherd’s Pie

    One of the greatest things about the Scott Pilgrim books is the way they break the fourth wall and invite you into the story. My favorite instance of this is in Volume 2, where we’re given a little cooking lesson with one of the characters’...

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    Geeks Who Cook Help Doctors Without Borders With #tweettreats

    Warren Ellis Neil Gaiman Chris Howard These names are known to geeks who read comics and sci-fi, but if they’re not already known to you, they should be as contributors to a great new cause. I think I’m a little late to the game in...

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    Cake Rex

    There are tons of geeky cakes out there, and a large, possibly surprising number of them are Daleks. Don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate a Dalek cake that actually looks good (and boy are there some hideous ones floating around out there), but if...

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  • Retro Crush: Bonkers

    Retro Crush: Bonkers

    Some people don’t believe the super fruitiness of Bonkers candy. Some people don’t believe that this candy even existed and think I’m making up a whole scheme of large plastic fruit crashing through the ceiling. I pity these people, as they obviously didn’t get to...

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  • DEWmocracy II: Mountain Dew Boogaloo

    DEWmocracy II: Mountain Dew Boogaloo

    I don’t know when the hell I became the Pop Bunker food editor (likely soon after I realized that no one was going to read articles about Americal Idol), but I felt I had to do an article about one of the true “geek drinks”,...

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  • The Real Worst Sandwich on the Block

    The Real Worst Sandwich on the Block

    If you’re reading this, odds are you have clocked in some serious time in some IHOP or other. Whether you were there arguing about Blackest Night into the wee hours or stopped in after catching the midnight premiere of Harry Potter, you’ve drunk the bad...

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  • Defending the KFC Double Down

    Defending the KFC Double Down

    Enough already. We get it. Nary a day goes by that I don’t hear something about the damned KFC Double Down. People talk of the sandwich as if it’s a gastrointestinal nuclear weapon guaranteed to make you a wobbling lardass just by desiring it. One...

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