There’s two things we love about Halloween: scary movies (we got that one covered here) and pigging out on left-over candy. Whether you rob the trick-or-treaters on your block or buy your own at the bodega, everyone finds the time to enjoy their favorite sweet treats around this time of year.
What will we be eating? To determine the greatest candy of all time, we asked the Complex staff to vote on their go-to sweets. What follows is the ultimate candy countdown, featuring everything from corner-store classics to tasty Japanese imports. Will your favorites make our list? What will be crowned #1? Check out the link below to find out…
You know we effs with JB Smoove (in fact, dude’s the star of our latest Soundboard), and in addition to his continuing hilarious work on Curb Your Enthusiasm, we were psyched to see that West Coast fast food chain Carl’s Jr. has hired JB as the spokesman in their new ad campaign.
Truth is though, we’ve been fans of Carl’s Jr.’s ads (and those of its East Coast brotha company Hardee’s) for years now—they’ve always combined hot chicks (or at least witty jokes) with burger porn in a way that makes us hungry every time. To celebrate JB’s new work with the company, we decided to go back in the vault and find the 10 best Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s commercials of all time. Bon appetit!
A few months ago, we took a road trip up to Burlington, Vermont to meet with the guys who run Coffee Analysts, one of the premier coffee testing resources in the United States. These guys drink coffee all day, testing quality control for everyone from Starbucks to Stumptown, while also helping companies launch new coffee brands and programs. The McDonalds McCafe? That was put together by Coffee Analysts.
We met with the company’s president, Dan Cox, and his Coffee Analysts crew to help us out with a coffee-related article in our October/November issue, on stands now. Watch our video interview with Dan Cox below, and then read on for the five rules of coffee that will help you lock down the perfect cup…
Seems like every year there’s a new magical dessert clamoring for attention—and more often than not, it’s some horrible retro-kitsch thing. To wit: rice pudding; creampuffs; inexplicably tangy frozen yogurt. To which we say: meh.
Dessert doesn’t need to be gussied up, it just needs to be cold and sweet and make you feel like a kid. So take it back to the ice-cream man. No Big Worm, no Master P, just some good humor. In this month’s Style & Design issue of Complex we co-signed old-school ice cream (after having a hot model taste-test them for us), and now we’re getting more specific with our five favorite choices…
Chef Nate Appleman came by and kicked it at Complex HQ the other day, so we hit up the kitchen to run through Nate’s recipes for Memorial Day backyard partying, including one of the greatest burgers we’ve ever tasted.
Appleman knows his stuff, and if you’re ever in San Francisco, make sure to check out his two spots—A16 for pizza, and his osteria, SPQR, for more serious getting-down, Italian-style. Hit the jump for two must-have recipes for Memorial Day this weekend: a bacon-infused burger and grilled fruit kebabs. If you get these two things dialed, you’re set, but when you mix an extra day off and a pitcher of margaritas, you might be looking at one of the greatest Sundays of the year. Hit the jump and get on it…
We’re far from picky eaters at Complex, so when we read the news that a Serbian chef is releasing The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls, we weren’t immediately disgusted. After all, we’re big fans of Fear Factor, and the Testicle recipes are for actual cooked food'testicle pizza, battered testicles and barbecued testicles made from the nuts of stallions, ostriches, bulls, pigs and turkeys. According to the chef, balls are rich in testosterone (go figure) and operate as a powerful aphrodisiac.
Who knew'besides our lady friends'that balls could taste so good? Have we been missing out on other crotch-area culinary goodness? We scoured the globe for the top 5 dishes made from private parts…
If you survived college by eating nothing but ramen noodles, then it’s about time you paid tribute to a great man named Momofuku Ando. 50 years ago, this Japanese businessman created the very first Chicken Ramen, and the world has been devouring his instant creation ever since.
Yesterday in Osaka, Japanese dignitaries gathered at the World Instant Noodle Summit for the unveiling of a new statue depicting Momofuku Ando, which was erected outside Nissin’s Instant Ramen Museum. After the jump, explore the Ramen Museum with some weird German tourists.
Ever since Domino's did away with their dangerous “30 minutes delivery or the pizza’s free” policy, the game just hasn’t been the same. Well now, they’re taking the delivery world by storm again with their Pizza Tracker system, the first surefire way to know the exact status of your order.
If you’re looking to add a little kick to your diet, we’d like to suggest visiting exotic food seller Edible.
Their unusual menu includes everything from chocolate-covered scorpions to crocodile curry to ant snacks (they have a whole section on their site called “INSECTIVORE”). Our favorite item: Weasel Coffee. No, there aren’t weasels in the coffee, but…“This Coffee is first eaten by Weasels which then regurgitate it, no one knows why they do this but it is then collected by locals in remote forest areas and then cleaned and roasted.”
Check out more unusual Edible products after the jump…
Well here’s a first. Although we’ve seen plenty of celebrity art across multiple mediums, we’ve never seen an artist chew and spit up food and use it like paint. Phil Hansen'who’s celebrating ‘Food Month’ for October'created this Britney Spears portrait using “every pastry and bread from Starbucks.” See more of the artists bizarre and sorted works here.
