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The Feast of Saturnalia
‘Saturnalia became one of the most popular Roman festivals. It was marked by drunken orgies, tomfoolery and reversal of social roles’ -Wiki
Saturnalia was the already-established Roman holiday which seemed to be the best choice for celebrating Christmas. Since no one knew exactly when Christ was born, Saturnalia fit the bill.
Article here. More here. Hippie pagan comic strip video here.
Illustration by Paul Bommer.
Found via Jeanne Mehallo
Festivus chocolate salami
‘Festivus, if you don’t know, is a smart-ass alternative holiday made famous by a 1997 episode of Seinfeld’
From the author of Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us. Article/recipe here.
Savory bacon bread pudding
‘Bacon, egg, feta and nutty oat bread nestled with herbs in a muffin tin made a superior bread pudding, in my opinion anyway.’
Recipe here.
Found via Hey What’s For Dinner Mom?
The Burberry (charitable) Christmas card
‘Each time you send it, a donation is made to the Burberry Foundation’
Burberry’s digital holiday card features Johnny Borrell of Razorlight singing Can’t Complain About Christmas.
Click the above image to play/jump, customize with your own message and email.
Found via Refinery29
Bourdain on fast food
‘Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert on chains, fast food, In-N-Out, sustainable seafood, tainted food punishment and more’
Click to watch/jump. Four videos at Huffington Post.
Google Blacklist holiday card
‘Nation created Google Blacklist Christmas as an homage to the search giant’s censorship-tinged mini snafu.’
Make your own holiday card – using words that Google has blacklisted (typing them in will return zero search results). Send it to a friend. Or not a friend. Create your card here.
Found via Mashable
Mehallo’s Holiday Chex Mix
I remember the first time I whipped up a batch of Chex Party Mix.
It was a quiet Friday night and we were watching this Love Boat/Charlie’s Angels airline knockoff called Flying High. It was the late 1970s and at the time the only way one could get a snack mix like this was to make their own.
Well, there was Doo Dads. An exception.
Today, there’s pre-bagged stuff everywhere. Chex makes a ‘traditional’ mix, though it doesn’t taste a thing like The Real Deal.
It has to come out of an oven. And I have my own version. Of course. [Read more →]
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