web watch - chew the right thing
Main Courses
Spam
- Spam
The official Hormel Foods Spam site, where their food is not a four-letter word. Heck, they even provide a history of spam -- except they call it "unsolicited commercial e-mail." And watch out for the SpamMobile, coming soon to a street near you (and some far away).
- SpamAlot
The very silly official site of the Monty Python broadway musical.
- Spam Fan Club
Do you know anybody who has actually eaten this stuff?
On The Beverage Cart
- Energy Drink Review
Need a little boost in your day? You've tried all the colas and sports drinks - even coffee doesn't work anymore. You need the advice of Dan the Energy Man. If it promises pep, he's already tried it.
- The Cola Wars
Over a century of cola slogans, commercials, blunders, and coups.
- The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy
What you call the stuff says a lot about where you come from.
For Dessert
Recipes For Excess
- Airline Meals
One of the great mysteries of the modern age faces us everytime we find ourselves
trapped in an aluminum cigar flying at 30,000 feet: just where did this meal come from? Browse thousands of inflight meals, go behind the scenes at major airports to see how the food is prepared, view 40 years of served meals and visit the gallery of meals in the movies (they even reveal the secrets about food served to the crew).
- Cooking For Engineers
Part web log and part forum, this site has a neat grid layout for cooking preparation that seems "just right" for us analytical types.
- Grocery Store Wars
Follow Cuke Skywalker as he learns the ways of the farm from Obi-Wan Cannoli, all the while being threatened by Darth Tater and the seduction of low prices. Other members of the Organic Rebellion, including C3Peanuts, Tofu D2, Princess Lettuce, Ham Solo, and Chewbroccoli make appearances, with the dreaded Death Melon hanging in the background.
- McBanners
If you've ever dreamed of running your own fast-food restaurant (but hated the idea of actually having to work in one), then here's the next best thing. Create your own promotional banners at this site, print them off and stick 'em up wherever you want.
- The McLes Diet
Edmontonian Leslie Sayer repeated Morgan Spurlock's stunt of eating only at McDonald's
for a month (as documented in the film Super
Size Me). Sayer belly-up'ed-to-the-counter on the issue of critical thinking: he felt Spurlock's film to be unbalanced. Sayer set out in his experiment the argument that if you eat out at McDonald's on a "rare" occasion, the restaurant's dietary impact can be offset "with lots of exercise." We here at the Last Link love a quarter-pounder about once a week, and the effects usually stay
with us for about a month.
- The Meatrix
Let Moopheus plug you into the mass food-producing meatrix to find out where your next meal really came from. From the overtaking of family farms to the unleashing of superbugs, this site will have you reaching for the red pill of truth faster than you can say "I'd like fries with that." A production of GRACE, the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment folks.
- My Pet Fat
It's either the latest fad (think pet rock) or the newest development in aversion therapy. However you may look at it, it's actually pretty tough to look at: lifelike fat. And you can buy it in 1 ounce, 1 pound or 5 pound sizes. Apart from the obvious gag-gift and practical joke uses, it may actually prove to be a successful motivation tool for the gravitationally challenged. But whatever the case, once the novelty wears thin, you'll always be left with the fat.
- A Spoonful of Sugar
Sweet decadence! The site itself is a wonderful blog of recipes, desserts and other treats - but there are all those tempting links to other culinary curiosities as well.