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· Khier Casino
Woman Calls Thai Rice Brand Fake After Cooking it Using the Dumbest Way Possible
Thai netizens put an Californian woman named Felicity Prak on blast after she posted a video of herself burning Thailand’s popular jasmine rice and called it fake. She also accused the country of selling the product, also known as milagrosa rice, mixed with plastic, according to…
· Ryan General
Nigeria Seizes Over 100 Bags of Fake Rice Made of Plastic From China
Nigerian authorities recently confiscated over 100 bags of fake rice made of plastic smuggled into the country from China. Local police officers have reportedly arrested a suspect linked to the smuggling of 102 bags of counterfeit rice intercepted on Monday, which officials…
· King Malleta
Japanese Man Dies Eating Rice Balls in Speed-Eating Contest
What was supposed to be a day of food festivities led to a tragic accident. A festival was held in Japan’s Shiga Prefecture last week where Higashibiwako’s Japan Agricultural Cooperative organized what was called the “Friendship Festival.” The event aimed to promote agricultural…
· Ryan General
Shanghai Gang Uses Women to Con Foreigners Into Buying Terrible Overpriced Alcohol
A court in China has found a bunch of gangsters guilty of ripping off foreigners by selling hugely overpriced bottom-shelf liquor in their bar. The unnamed bar, which opened in February on Wuding Road in the Jing’an District of Shanghai, reportedly housed ladies who were…
· Ryan General
The Price of the World’s Most Expensive Chili is Absolutely Ridiculous
A type of chili from Austria can burn through your tongue and into your wallet. The “Charapita” is a type of small yellow chili pepper harvested in the Austrian village of Frauenkirchen but originated from the northern part of Peru. According to Ruptly (via the Straits Times),…
· Ryan General
Watch a Young Chinese Woman Eat Nearly 9 Pounds Of Cooked Rice in One Sitting
If competitive eating was an Olympic sport, this young woman would definitely win the gold for China at every event that involved chomping down large amounts of food. Chongqing native Mi Zijun wowed her audience at a recent rice-eating competition in Hangzhou after downing over…
· Editorial Staff
Chinese Tourists are Outraged Over the ‘Unreasonable’ Food Prices at Shanghai Disneyland
Even though Shanghai’s Disneyland is still not open yet (just one more week), tourists, who presumably got hungry after trashing the place, are now complaining about the “outrageous” prices of theme park food. Shanghai Disneyland’s Mickey Mouse-head baozi, a steamed bun snack,…
· Editorial Staff
This Craigslist Post Perfectly Sums Up How Bad Rent Prices Have Gotten in SF
It’s no secret that rental prices in the bay area have gotten crazy. People have been forced to come up with creative ways to afford living in SF — including building a pod inside a living room and getting married for a rent controlled apartment. Now it appears that people are…
· Editorial Staff
China is Aiming for an Epic Economic Comeback With Rice Cookers and Smart Toilet Seats
China is hoping sales of rice cookers and smart toilet seats will pick up its economy. The Chinese government plans to focus on driving the economy with domestic consumption rather than trade and investment. According to South China Morning Post, cabinet documents reveal that…
· Editorial Staff
The Man Who Sets Prices For American Airlines Reveals How to Get the Cheapest Flights
For many travelers on a budget, finding the cheapest way to fly can be a daunting challenge. While the internet offers an abundance of theories on how to get the best deals, it is still easy to get lost in the confusion and fail to get the best possible deal.
· Editorial Staff
Study Reveals That Babies Who Eat Rice Cereal Have Higher Arsenic Levels
The safety of rice for children is usually taken as a given: rice cereal is commonly used as a bridge to solid foods for babies and rice cakes are often given to young children as a healthy snack. A new study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, however, found that…
· Editorial Staff
Xiaomi Unveils Revolutionary $150 Rice Cooker That You Can Control With Your Smartphone
Sometimes when cooking rice you can end up with a mushy mash of baby food or a pot of dry gravel. Perfecting the art of cooking rice is something Chinese tech company Xiaomi has developed a solution for. The company recently introduced its newest home appliance that can be…
· Ryan General
Trader Joe’s Ex-President Launches Grocery Store That Sells Healthy Food at Fast-Food Prices
It looks like your common boutique supermarket, and with its aisles brimming with fresh produce and friendly staff assisting customers, it has nearly everything you would find in your typical suburban food store. But under the Whole Foods facade of carrot crates and egg carton…
· Riley Schatzle
Rice is Not the Best Solution If You Drop Your Phone in Water
A new company called TekDry is using a state-of-the-art vacuum machine that sucks the water out of damaged phones within 30 minutes. Although bags of rice are known to absorb unwanted water out of phones, it is rarely a dependable method as it can take up to three days for the…
· Max Chang
CEO Douche Who Jacked Up the Price of HIV/Cancer Drug is More Evil Than We Thought
Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who infamously purchased the rights to a life-saving cancer and HIV medication before increasing the price by more than 5,000%, has a shady history involving stalking a colleague’s family and harassing them by promising to make…
· Jacob Wagner
Chipotle Finally Raises Price on Their Off-Menu ‘Quesarito’
Chipotle fan know the most famous off-menu item you can order at the fast casual restaurant is the “quesarito.” It’s your regular burrito except with an extra layer of cheese sandwiched between two tortillas rather than the usual one. If you asked nicely, they’d usually make it…
· Jacob Wagner
Two Friends Pay for Stranger’s Groceries and the Reactions are Priceless
While some Youtubers conduct social experiments to point out gaping flaws in our society, others conduct them just to do something nice for people.
· Jacob Wagner
Crazy Woman Bites Macy’s Employee Over The Price of a Michael Kors Bag
A Bay Area woman was apparently so upset over the price of a Michael Kors bag at a Newark Macy’s that she threw an epic tantrum, biting and scratching a Macy’s employee in the process. On Thursday, 42-year-old Anh Nguyen was shopping at the NewPark Mall Macy’s when, presumably…
· Sebastian Dillon
Spearfishing Huntress Reveals the Price of Following Your Dreams
Like most bustling metropolitan workers in London, 28-year-old French-Canadian Valentine Thomas goes to work raising capital for the hedge fund she’s employed at. However, as soon as she gets out of the office, she goes to work on her real passion — spearfishing. The world…
· Max Chang
Researchers Find Ingenious Method of Cutting the Calories in Rice By 60 Percent
Apparently, how you cook rice and why you eat it is a big deal on the internet. Rice, an important staple food in many countries, is valuable because, one, it is cheap, and two, it’s high in calories because it’s a starch. So why would we ever need a way to cook low-calorie rice?
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