I scraped the honeycomb out of the hive and two minutes later popped it in my mouth like a stick of Juicy Fruit — and it was delicious.

Unfortunately, it’s likely to be the only taste of honey this year. Both hives are establishing themselves this year and will need all the honey to survive the winter. Next year, though, if they survive the winter, there should be plenty of honey to go around.

Frito-Lay has taken two of the most disgusting, unhealthy food products ever invented and have combined them into one.

Normally I wouldn’t recommend any kind of Doritos, but this flavour is surreal. Because it tastes like a cheeseburger. A greasy, meaty, melted-process-cheese-laden hamburger in a sesame seed bun.

It’s a marvel of science that they managed to create that specific flavour and put it on a corn chip. It’s weird and almost amoral. But man, you gotta try it.

This is not a paid advertisement for Frito-Lay. I’m just doing my part to make your day a little more surreal.

What am I going to do with 4 litres of banana peppers? I suppose I could put them on a sandwich.

• Toasted multi-grain bagel with butter.
• Horseradish mayonnaise
• Wiltshire bacon
• lettuce
• tomatoes
• onion
• sauerkraut
• mozzarella cheese

Washed down with a fine lager.

I should’ve taken a damn photo.

Number 1 on their list so you don’t have to click their stupid Next button 20 times like I did is something I never heard of so I don’t think it’s available in Atlantic Canada: Cold Stone PB&C

Here’s what they say of the Worst Drive-Thru Shake:

(via Sedition.com)

Moosehead Cracked Canoe Beer is a “premium” beer, meaning it’s expensive, although I didn’t think it was too much so.

My review: it’s OK. A light lager that hits the spot on a hot day.

I found a YouTube review of it, which appears to be shot in a batroom:

Moosehead is a well known company in Atlantic Canada, famous for their beer of the same name.

(I’m not linking to the Moosehead corporate website because it’s all annoying Flash.)

I haven’t built my bee hive yet (I’m building it today) and I won’t know for a few weeks if I can get bees early enough to have a honey harvest this year. But if it does happen — and I win the computer — I’ll send John as much as I can spare. Even if I don’t win the computer, I’ll just put my name on the label and keep the “Claw Hammer Honey” name. That’s an ingenious name for a brand of honey. I’d buy it.

UPDATE #1: We built our first bee hive today.

UPDATE #2: For the record, this is what I said I’d do if I won the computer: “If I win the computer, I will name him Johnny. I will then make Johnny my slave and use him, with the help of Excel, to calculate how much honey I can produce in my first honey bee hive this summer. Provided the calculations are correct, at the end of the season I will bottle my honey harvest under a commemorative limited edition label, Walkenbach’s Special, and send a couple bottles to Arizona. Next year, I’ll send twice as much.”

UPDATE #3: I didn’t win. And he more or less chose the winner randomly? As Clay Davis would says, “She it.” I can’t believe it. I am stunned. What was the point in trying to bribe him? And I told a half decent story to boot. I feel like a crest-fallen sidekick in an old café. I don’t know how John is going to make this up to me, but it better be good. Real good.

But in order of preference from the box: Kit Kat, the world’s greatest chocolate bar; Coffee Crisp, a bar I never buy because I’ll pick Kit Kat (or maybe a Mars bar) before anything else, but it’s still a appetizing chocolate bar; Aero, a chocolate bar full of bubbles; and Smarties, M&M’s less-addictive second cousin.

The worst Halloween candies are those watered-down toffee candies with Halloween-themed wrappers that nobody except maybe my grandmother when she still had her teeth would eat. Do kids still get those in their trick-or-treat bags?

Glycyrrhizin is 30-50 times sweeter than white sugar.

Twizzlers, the popular licorice-type candy, does not contain anything from the licorice plant, hence it contains no glycyrrhizin.

From Food & Drink

I did a Google search for schnitzel recipes, discovered I didn’t have all the necessary ingredients, so I improvised, which is all I ever do anyway. I sliced some pork loins about an inch thick; cut them around the edges so they wouldn’t shrivel up on the grill; I took all these ingredients — olive oil, 4 gloves of garlic, various amounts of paprika, curry power, fennel seeds, rosemary, parsley, pepper, kosher salt and probably a few more spices I can’t remember now — and mixed them all together in a big bowl; then I pounded the pork into all it, mushing it up real good, and I let it sit covered in the fridge for a couple hours. Then I just cooked it on the BBQ (or outdoor grill for the purists) with corn on the cob and zucchini fresh from my garden. Done. It may be the best thing I’ve had on the BBQ this summer.