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The first time I discovered hand pies, while visiting Denver last year, I’m not ashamed to say that I set upon the deliciously flaky pastry lads with sheer abandon, consuming more than I care to remember. I spent much of that day, in between alternately shoveling pastry into my gaping maw and brushing crumbs off my dress with my free hand, trying to figure out what the hell these delightful morsels were. As far as I could tell, hand pies were an entirely separate category of convenient pastry snack, distinct from any I’d come across. In Britain, we have numerous filled pastries, but none named quite so quizzically as hand pies—anyone I mentioned them to upon my return to the U.K. laughed in my face. “You mean pasties, right?” they guffawed, not incorrectly. But did I? Advertisement So what is a hand pie? Trusty Wiktionary defines the hand pie as a “semilunar pastry with either a sweet or savory filling, formed by placing a dollop of filling onto … [Read more...] about Nearly every culture has a hand pie—for good reason

Cars & Coffee meetups have become a sacred ritual of weekend mornings across the USA, where people come to gather and bask in the mutual glow of the love of the automobile. But drivers like the one at the wheel of this Mustang at the Cars & Coffee meet in Charlotte, North Carolina, are just setting us back. Seth, the reader who sent this in, knows just how bad this sort of thing is: Yesterday at the cars and coffee meet in Charlotte NC a mustang 5.0 crashed into a fire hydrant trying to do a burnout as he left. They are talking about shutting the event down because of this crap that people do everytime they leave, even though they tell them not to. Luckily no one was standing there as he went over the curb and up the hill to hit the hydrant. People need to know that this is not ok. There was a cop around, watching people leaving but he was busy giving a ticket to someone else. there was also a M3 with a 2jz swap doing doughnuts prior to this and many people to burnouts. … [Read more...] about Mustang At Cars & Coffee Shows How You Do Not Drive At Cars & Coffee

There’s pretty much nothing cuter than when two animals from different species who you would never expect to give each other the time of day end up becoming best friends. So this awesome story of an unlikely animal friendship is absolutely going to melt your heart: T Awwwww!! Who would’ve thought a friendship as adorable as this could happen?! Freckles the badger and Harold the owl are just two of the many animals who make their homes in the Spring Creek Nature Preserve in Medina, Advertisement Please excuse us while we slip into a cuteness coma. This is officially the greatest thing that has every happened! Park rangers say that Harold was pretty depressed when he first returned to his nest to find his best badger friend Freckles engaged in furious intercourse with his Athena. The poor owl was completely overcome with shock when he first Freckles’ Advertisement Rangers say that they weren’t sure if the friendship between the badger and the owl he … [Read more...] about Unlikely Animal Friendship: This Badger And Owl Are Still Friends Even Though The Badger Had Sex With The Owl’s Mate

Sucker Punch goes inside an imprisoned woman's mind for a dark, surreal fantasy adventure. We asked the cast and crew about the fiendishly complex story, the fine line between exploitation and empowerment, and the horrors of steampunk zombie war. Spoilers ahead! Sucker Punch follows Emily Browning's Baby Doll (all the main characters are known exclusively by nicknames), who gets committed to a 1950s mental institution by her evil stepfather, who arranges to have her lobotomized with the help of Oscar Isaac's corrupt asylum staffer Blue. To escape her desperate situation, Baby Doll retreats into her mind, imagining herself the newest addition to a hellish brothel that closely parallels the institution. Advertisement In this imaginary world, she teams up with four of her fellow dancers/prisoners: Abbie Cornish's Sweet Pea, Jena Malone's Rocket, Vanessa Hudgens's Blondie, and Jamie Chung's Amber. Together, the trapped sex workers hatch a daring escape plan. Zack Snyder conceptualizes … [Read more...] about Zack Snyder explains the point of “Sucker Punch”

I have long loved IKEA, not just for the LACK units of my college days or the little table I’m sitting at right this moment, but I love them for their food. No trip to the Swedish superstore is complete without a helping of meatballs, but their market is equally worth checking out. They have a great frozen section, full of heart shaped waffles and delicious potato cakes, and they recently added a whole wall of corn syrup-free, per-the-pound candy, but there are a few multipurpose gems that I grab almost every visit. Check out our favorites below, and consider grabbing a few the next time you need a cute shower curtain or infuriating comforter cover. Advertisement Build a Cocktail IKEA has a wealth of delicious beverages, the most famous of which is DRYCK LINGON, their lingonberry drink. Not only can you buy the ruby colored elixir in concentrated form, you can also purchase elderflower and blueberry syrups for diluting in the comfort of your own home. The lingonberry syrup … [Read more...] about How to Hack the IKEA Food Market