Can You Legally Eat Your Own Cat?

Apparently in some states there are no laws barring you from eating your own pets, but this guy lives in one of those that does have a law on the book and he was arrested after a traffic stop lead to the discovery of his plan. In the trunk the officers found a cat marinating in a mixture of crushed red peppers, chili peppers, salt and oil.

I'm a huge fan of animals, mainly dogs [not so much cats], but either way this article had me in tears when I was reading it. Seriously, the cat was mean to the guy so he decided he was going to eat him... I think this guy is ALF in disguise...

Buffalo Man Marinated Cat in Peppers, Chili, Planned to Eat

Updated: Wednesday, 11 Aug 2010, 8:58 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 11 Aug 2010, 8:58 AM EDT

(NewsCore) - A Buffalo man allegedly marinated his live cat in a mixture of crushed red peppers and chili -- but was arrested before he could eat the pet, the Buffalo News reported Tuesday.

Police rescued the cat after finding it in the Cheektowaga man's car trunk when he was pulled over for allegedly passing a stop sign on Sunday night.

Ferry-Fillmore District officers said they heard the cat crying from inside the trunk and found it in a cage “marinating” in a mixture of crushed red peppers, chili pepper, salt and oil.

Gary L. Korkuc, 51, told police his black and white cat named Navarro had been "mean" to him and he was planning to make a meal out of the animal because it was ill-tempered.

He was arrested on one count of cruelty to animals and was also charged with passing a stop sign and failure to signal.

Navarro, a four-year-old male, was taken to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where he is being put up for adoption.

source: MyFox Philly

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Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt

When I was in college I basically lived off of Grilled Cheese sandwiches and Mozzarella sticks. We would go to nicer restaurants and I would just stuff my face with different kinds of cheeses. These days those same cheeses don't really sit as well with me, but I'll still indulge occasionally. Fast forward 9 years later and what do we have... Denny's Fried Cheese Melt!! OMG!!!!11!11 Where was this thing when I was in college and was able to process lactose properly. The Fried Cheese Melt is basically a grilled cheese sandwich with mozzarella sticks... INSIDE IT! I seriously just had a cheese-gasm. I can feel my self getting gassy just from looking at the picture.  I mean, I've had cheeseburgers with mozzarella sticks, bacon and a fried egg, but I don't know how I did not think of making this. And the best part is it's only $4 so if your goal in life is to have a heart attack by the time you're 30, like me, then what are you waiting for!!!

Jamie Bisoulis – Hell’s Kitchen Season 7

With less than a week before the premier of season 7 of Hell's Kitchen things are starting to get interesting. I finally caught a TV spot last night that featured my friend Jamie being confronted by Chef Ramsay after she apparently left a toothpick in one of her dishes, which is actually kind of funny to me because of something I did to Jamie about 10 years ago involving toothpicks. But then I found the video above, which is an extended sneak peak at the new season, and towards the end Jamie gets thrown out of the kitchen.... uh oh. I'm going to be pretty annoyed if Jamie gets booted off the first episode, I mean I know she burnt a frozen pizza she was making for me in high school, but come on... haha.

So of the trailers and videos I've seen of the show so far I can only pray that Jamie doesn't get booted the first week and starts to pick things up after she gets more relaxed and falls into the groove, but I guess we'll see. Hopefully I'll make it to the premier party in Chicago next week and I'll try to get some quotes out of her for my review of the show next week. Make sure you tune in and see how she manages to cook a toothpick and get salmon in her ears.

I've embedded her little interview video after the jump.

Update: Wow, some friend I am, it took me until now to notice that they spelled Jamie's last name wrong on everything related to Hell's Kitchen... they forgot an "i", it's Bisioulis, granted I've never known how to properly spell it...

Update 2: I was just informed that she calls the new spelling her "stage name" haha. I'm guessing it's just easier to spell her name the way it sounds instead of adding the random "i".

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Piece – Chicago

For the past month or so my girlfriend has been trying to plan a little get together for all of our friends at this pizza place in Chicago's Wicker Park called Piece. We have been there before for a birthday party/Bears game last fall and thought everyone would like the atmosphere as well as the pizza. Our original plan was to all go at the end of March on a Friday night after work, but apparently the place is very popular and even calling 3 days in advance isn't enough to get you a reservation. We didn't want to risk going down there and having to wait for over an hour for a table, the place can get pretty crowded, so we decided to postpone and figure out another date that worked for everyone.

2 weeks ago we called and tried to make a reservation for this past Friday, but we were informed that the latest a reservation can be is 6:30PM and the minimum amount of people is 10... we had 9. They did tell us that they will seat the party as long as you have 75% of the people there by the time of the reservation, so we told them we had 10 and made the reservation... or at least tried. They told us that they would put in our "request" for a reservation and someone would call us back the next day to actually confirm that we were able to make a reservation. Odd, but ok.

The next day someone did call and confirmed that we had 10 people and that was that. I understand that some restaurants don't take reservations and/or have a policy when it comes to reservations, it's obviously there restaurant and they can do whatever they want, but they just seemed kind of smug on the phone about it all. Now I don't blame this on Piece at all because from the way things played out, I think they use a 3rd party reservation company, hence the reason why someone had to call us back the next day. Either that or a manager is the one that approves the reservations and had to check the schedule to see if there were any events that night, but either way the people on the phone just made it sound like they were too popular and didn't feel like they wanted our business if we wanted to make a reservation (if that makes sense). Maybe I'm just not used to how popular restaurants in the city work, which could very well be the case, but it just seemed kind of rude to me, but whatever.

The only other issue, which actually turned out to be a non-issue anyways, was that the reservation was at 6:30pm on a Friday and only 1 of us actually works in the city, so we were thinking it was going to be hard to make it down there in time. But everything worked out perfectly and ironically my girlfriend and I were the last ones to arrive due to some parking issues.

More about the actual restaurant/food after the jump.

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Got The Munchies? – The A.C. Burger

I'm sure this amazing burger has been made elsewhere, but I'm officially dubbing it "The A.C. Burger" and despite what you may think, the A.C. actually stands for Artery Clogger. I've had burgers with all kinds of toppings, but usually the normal toppings like lettuce, tomato, cheese, bacon, ketchup, mustard, onions... that kind of stuff, but it wasn't until recently that I started experimenting with what went on one of my favorite foods. After watching Man v. Food and some of the other food shows on TV I decided to give the fried egg a go on a burger and it was delicious, but it left me wanting more and thus The A.C. Burger was born.

The A.C. Burger is a combination of my favorite foods all mixed into one, a burger, bacon, fried eggs and mozzarella cheese sticks. The worst part about loving cheese though, is the fact that I'm lactose intolerant so I had to be careful. But last night I wasn't leaving the house so I figured it was as good a night as any to give this a shot.

I started with a frozen burger only because it was all I had in the fridge/freezer and while making a burger out of ground beef would have tasted much better (Bubba burgers are kinda bland sometimes) I was going for fat content here. I mean it wouldn't be an artery clogging burger if you didn't use one of the fattiest frozen burgers you can buy right? The other ingredients are pretty self explainatory, there's 3 mozzarella sticks, 1 egg and a package of bacon (of which I used 2 slices).

The timing of all this was crucial as I didn't want one thing to get cold while I was waiting for the other stuff to finish cooking. So I preheated the oven for the cheese sticks (I could have used the microwave, but they taste so much better out of the oven). They required about 10 minutes to cook so I started cooking the bacon first since that would have to cool just a bit after it was done cooking. Once the bacon was done I put the frozen burger on the grill and put the cheese sticks in the oven all while keeping the bacon grease nice and warm in the pan in anticipation of the fried egg.

Once the burger was almost done I dropped the egg in the frying pan and fried it up in the bacon grease. The egg only takes a minute or so to cook, so once it was done the burger and cheese sticks were also done. I took everything out and placed them neatly on a bun and The A.C. Burger was born and it was even more beautiful than I pictured in my head. I added some ketchup and mustard to the top and took my first bite, it was delicious. I can't remember the last time I felt so full after eating a burger and the best part was my inability to digest lactose didn't come into play all night, although I did get tired almost immediately and went to bed at like 9PM.

The only thing it probably could have used was some more cheese, maybe a slice of American or Cheddar, but I didn't want to risk it. So what are some of your ridiculous food creations? We'd love some new ideas for crazy things to make...

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