Category archive: food

June 10, 2013

Booty Maker Joins Orphan Brand Conglomerate

Robert's American Gourmet Food Company, the maker of Pirate's Booty and other Booty snacks, has been acquired by B&G Foods, a New Jersey conglomerate of totally random, orphan consumer brands that have been shed by much larger conglomerates. So this...
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June 4, 2013

Famous OTO Cardboard Food Truck Is Crowdsourcing Right Now

There are few things more annoying than an ice cream truck, especially when they just roll up like clockwork at your playground, and the half of the kids whose parents don't care what kind of crap they eat or...
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June 1, 2013

Luiz Doesn't Want To Eat Octopus

I very clearly remember the moment when the kid realized that chicken was not a homonym, but the same thing. [youtube]...
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May 17, 2013

Ninjabread Men Cookie Cutters

Because you can never have enough ninjas, here are ninjabread men cookie cutters. Also, I just like saying ninjabread men to myself. TRY IT! Buy a set of three Ninjabread Men cookie cutters for like $5 [amazon via @mathowie,...
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May 15, 2013

Hold The Fetal Mint

A sign at some Dupont Circle salad restaurant today:...
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May 3, 2013

DT Friday Freakout: Edition Of The Rat

It's been that kind of a week, the kind where you wish you could avoid all the freakout-inducing headlines from the worlds of parenting, science, and safety. Where you wish you could just bundle them all up into one, so...
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April 24, 2013

This Is Not A Drill. Should I Teach The Kids The McCrew Dance?

Alright, so we know that McDonald's Japan has made this McCrew Dance video to virally recruit the Kids Of Today to work there. This is not my concern. But there is also a McCrew Dance instructional video. Which makes...
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April 16, 2013

Bamboo Stroller Hack

Here is a stroller turned into a vegetable cart, as photographed by Beatbeatrice at the Anilao Market in the Philippines. [instragram via @beabeatrice]...
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March 1, 2013

One Country, Two Formula Markets

No, these people in Shenzhen haven't violated the one-child policy; they're taking as much powdered formula as they can carry back to Hong Kong, ahead of HK's ban on Mainland powdered milk products, which goes into effect March 1st....
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February 25, 2013

My Friend FLIKEA

The AP reports that Czech authorities found traces of horse meat in Ikea meatballs. Ikea says that their tests show no such thing? Or maybe we go with, horse meat is at undetectable levels? Anyway, Ikea's stopped selling meatballs, but...
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February 13, 2013

For Sale: Starck Baby Tableware, Never Used

Timpee1, an eBay seller in Wisconsin, has decided now is the time clear out the Philippe Starck + Target baby gear that's been sitting, unused, in the packages, since 2001. Which, if you're in the market for a baby...
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February 8, 2013

DT Friday Freakout: Teddy Bears Edition

I know I'm missing a bunch, but these reports from the worlds of science, health, parenting, and twitter [uh, three of these things belong together? -ed.] should be enough to freak you out and ruin your weekend. Except for the...
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January 28, 2013

Attachment Parenting Ryan Gosling

Did not realize this "Hey, Girl" thing is still going. And going strong. Attachment Parenting Ryan Gosling [via dt ryan gosling correspondent rolf]...
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January 17, 2013

Breast Beanie Is Best

There are many paths to the top of Mount Fuji. So I am totally fine to have learned about the Boob Beanie from DT's Amsterdam correspondent Jan, who saw an article in the Telegraaf about the the Australian Boob...
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January 12, 2013

DT Protip: Avoid The Shortest Baby Spoons

For someone whose job involves a fair amount of typing, I end up sticking my hand in our disposall way too frequently. So don't get baby forks and spoons that are so short, you can't see them. You want the...
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December 19, 2012

Aigle Royal With Babies

They got the metric system in Quebec; they don't know WTF a golden eagle is. Also, I had this video on mute the first 25 or so times I watched it. Big mistake....
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November 29, 2012

Daddy, What Did Babies Drink Before Brawndo?

Frankly, I'm less interested in the Crib Dribbler itself than in the "Kindex™ Infant Energy Drink" mentioned on the package. And both are quickly forgotten when confronted with the actual existence of Prank Packs, a social network-powered, digital retail...
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November 25, 2012

Charlie Bit My Wheat Thins!

Watching K2's unprompted, awesomely and unexpectedly combative re-creation of the Family Guy Wheat Thins commercial is the closest I think I've ever come to regretting my perhaps overly principled decision--made, I might addd, before YouTube itself existed--to not pursue...
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October 2, 2012

Don't Bring A Kinder To A Massfight

image: dpa/spiegel Der Spiegel reports that the number of lost children so far at this year's Oktoberfest is 93, compared to 56 in 2011. Also:"Happily, there were no attempted killings during the first half of the festival, and no...
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September 10, 2012

Inglourious 'Breastapo' Prefers The Milk.

Oh, man, if these Sunday Star-Times reports are any indication, the health care system in New Zealand has been seized by power-mad lactivists loyal to the WHO, who have turned the little island nation into the breastfeeding version of...
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August 31, 2012

Area Man Throwing Out His Ikea Napkins

We were at the big Asian supermarket yesterday, K2 and I, wandering around the fish section, where some random gweilo dad was letting his 2-3yo kid just pick up fish after fish after fish with his grimy little hands, and...
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August 17, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: Nuts Edition

An abbreviated assortment of news from the worlds of science, health, and parenting to freak you out for the weekend: The better educated the parents, the worse kids do when trapped in a fridge. [aap, c. 1958 via felix] Eating...
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August 16, 2012

EBB: Everything But Breastfeeding

People really do get worked up over breastfeeding and bottlefeeding. But whether you go the formula route, or the pump, dads giving the kid a bottle, especially in the middle of the night, provides a real and concrete benefit to...
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August 7, 2012

Hey Blueberry Boy! Pancake Mountain's On YouTube

Hey, Pancake Mountain gave itself a media upgrade. The awesome, if somewhat dormant, DC-based indie music kids TV show has a YouTube channel! Oh, wait, I knew this. It's been around for five years. I guess I mean that,...
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July 31, 2012

Latch On, Latch Off: Bloomberg Tells Hospitals To Lock Up That Formula

The Bloomberg administration has persuaded 27 of New York City's 40 hospitals to adopt new, breastfeeding-friendlier procedures for newborns. As part of the new Latch On NYC program, maternity ward nurses are supposed to encourage new moms to breastfeed by...
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July 19, 2012

50 Shades Of BPA: Big Chemical Loves It When FDA Bans Them

Is it just me or does this seem so weird? The FDA has banned BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups, even though manufacturers all basically stopped using BPA plastic for bottles between 2008-10, in the midst of heavy consumer...
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June 21, 2012

The Family That Plays Together Eats Food Out Of A Bag Together

Holy moley, I see the headline on Matt Ritchel's NYT longread about baby food in a squeezebag, and I'm like, "Wait, exactly what family ritual is being squeezed here, exactly? The ritual of spooning mashed carrots into a Ziploc...
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June 6, 2012

This Is Serious.

via @peterlattman...
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May 31, 2012

DT Friday Freakout

So hear are some headlines and such pulled from the media and designed to freak you out all week, compiled into one list, so you can freakout and ruin just your weekend: JennyMcCarthyBodyCount.com keeps a running tally of all the...
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May 28, 2012

Comforter Down!

You know, it's not like the implications of feeding a 4yo extra slices of watermelon were unconsidered at 7:30. It's just....
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May 23, 2012

Daddies Ketchup By Paul McCarthy

Sometimes a ketchup bottle is just a ketchup bottle. Though with Paul McCarthy, you can never be sure if this is one of those times. Still, congratulations to the Public Art Fund for erecting this awesome inflatable Daddie's Ketchup...
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May 14, 2012

Avocado + iPhone

Bkln hipster parents with a (lovely) 6mo old baby on my Paris-JFK flight fed her fresh avocado scooped out w/tiny spoon— Rich Mintz (@richmintz) May 15, 2012 Also when the baby cried they gave her an iPhone to hold and...
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April 27, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: Class Edition

The Friday Freakout, a compendium of parenting headlines delivered all at once instead of dribbled out daily, to ruin just your weekend, a Daddy Types exclusive: During the Obama administration, the food and beverage industry has doubled the amount of...
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April 14, 2012

DT Is Long BNNY

The Wall Street Journal has a nice profile of Molly Ashby, the private equity rock star whose firm took a controlling interest in Annie's, Inc., the organic food products company, in 2002, and which just took it public. With the...
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April 9, 2012

Prego: It's In There! There Being My Uterus!

I know, I know, but seriously, isn't Prego the weirdest as hell name for anything?...
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April 6, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: Free Range Organic McNuggets Edition

A roundup of headlines from the worlds of science, politics, education, and parenting to ruin your weekend all at once, it's the Daddy Types Friday Freakout: Fast food causes depression. [psychcentral via the awl] And not just by finding out...
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April 4, 2012

How Your Peeps Are Made

The NY Times' Nikolas Koenig went inside the Peeps factory and all he got is this awesome, Mister Rogers-worthy slideshow of how Peeps are made, which happens to be a question I've been fielding for several days now. Perhaps...
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March 30, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: ASD BPA CPSC Edition

A collection of--let's face it, a couple of--headlines from the worlds of health, science, and parenting designed to ruin your weekend, it's the DT Friday Freakout: "New Study Finds Skyrocketing Increase in Autism" could really be from any week now,...
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March 22, 2012

Daddy's Girls

At dinner tonight, I asked the kids what kind of seaweed they wanted, and they were like, "All of them!" Which I figure almost makes up for my taking them to Popeye's last night....
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March 13, 2012

A Steady Diet Of John Cage

I was going to skip the NYT's story about the 22-year-old student at Brown who also happens to be an up&coming electronic musician, because, hello, it's Brown; throw a rock, and you're gonna hit a whatever-slash-electronic musician. But New Yorker...
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March 2, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: Babyccino Edition

I may add to this later, but it's a start: Dude, male birth control pills, transurethral ultrasound AND babyccino? The only way Colbert could be begging any harder for a Daddy Types link is if he had Uma on to...
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February 29, 2012

Death Star Pancake

Alright these ridiculous Star Wars pancake molds caused such a massive disturbance in the pancake Force, I had to do something. So I made some Death Star pancakes. Here's how: 1. Make pancake batter. I used Bisquik, because I'm...
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These Are Not The Star Wars Pancake Molds You Are Looking For.

Seriously? Is it a coincidence that Boing Boing points to the Williams-Sonoma Star Wars™ Vehicles Pancake Molds just days after Jason Geyer revealed another epic collection of horrible-but-failed Star Wars product licensing ideas? Because I am really not seeing...
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February 17, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: Sleep Edition

Because you've got enough to freak out about already, Daddy Types collects headlines from the worlds of science, health, and parenting designed to freak you during the week, and compiles them into one big, weekend-ruining list, the DT Friday Freakout:...
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February 10, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: Diet Coke Edition

I don't know about you, but for me, this week's roundup of headlines from the worlds of science, health, and parenting is a Super Double Big Gulp of freakout. I'd drown my freakout in Diet Coke, but, well: Diet sodas...
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January 31, 2012

Heath Ceramics For Kids

Oh man, not only are these kid dishes from the pioneering crafty hipsters at Heath Ceramics gorgeous, they are also gorgeous. Let's just savor the gorgeousness for a second. They're available in fruit [top] and veggie [above] colors, and...
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January 26, 2012

Funny, Die, Or Breastfeed?

For a moment there, Funny or Die thought comedian Ahna Tessler's short comedy video, which included the new mom of twins breastfeeding, was obscene or whatever, and took it down. But when the Times started asking about it, they decided...
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January 25, 2012

Raisin'em Right

Sometime ago we began a thing where the kids can opt to have their dessert in the bathtub. That usually only happens when it's what you'd expect: popsicles or a lollipop. Not Raisin Bran, which is what K2 insisted she...
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January 11, 2012

Cuppow: Mason Jar Sippy Cup

Bwahaha, a simple, BPA-free way to turn a canning jar into a sippy cup! I can't tell if this is real, or the flatout-awesomest Portlandia parody product campaign ever. Someone please spend the $7.99+shipping to find out, then let...
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December 29, 2011

BREAKING: Other Half The Population Also Buys Groceries

Maybe it's the MBA geek in me, but man, I love it when industry consultants talk shop, like in this Chicago Tribune article about supermarkets and consumer product conglomerates finally noticing that men do half the grocery shopping:"The mindset has...
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