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STAVANGER, Norway, - Norway's Statoil gas station chain created a video showing a man using his "precision" excavator skills to assemble a hot dog and feed it to a friend. The video, shared on YouTube by Statoil Fuel & Retail Norge, features a man named Juha-Pekka using the heavy construction equipment to assemble a hot dog with lettuce, onions and a condiment that appears to be ketchup. Juha-Pekka then uses the excavator to gently lift the hot dog and feed it to his friend, Antti.

...I need some ideas/recipes for tonight. My wife had put this on Thursday Night to thaw but we forget about it til this morning. I just browned it.

Jenna Jameson says she has found love ... and God. The former adult film star has revealed that she is converting from Catholicism to Judaism. Why? The 41-year-old is embracing her Israeli fiance Lior Bitton's religious traditions. Jameson has been cooking up a storm, literally. She shared a picture of her latest attempt at making challah, a type of bread typically used by Jews during festival meals.

A 15-foot-tall Agave plant is blooming and drawing crowds to the Dallas Arboretum. The Arboretum says the Agave victoriae-reginae is 20 years old and this will be the only time it blooms in its lifetime. Once it finishes blooming, the plant will die, but not before sowing seeds for the next generation. The plant just started opening up and will bloom in the Garden's Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden for two to four weeks. Agave victoriae-reginae plant is endangered in its native Sierra Madre mountain range of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Cyrstal Pepsi is poised to make a comeback, thanks in part to efforts by competitive eater Kevin Strahle --aka L.A. Beast. Strahle is part of a group of loyal consumers who have been appealing to Pepsi to bring back the iconic drink, which tasted like Pepsi but was clear. The caffeine-free drink was originally introduced in 1992 to respond to health concerns about coloring in soda, but only lasted a year. It was considered a failure because it was believed it didn’t taste good.

When I was growing up, my father's sister was a great cook, especially of sweets and delicacies. She made the nicest Christmas cookies, fudge, and fruitcake, and we would get a big basket of everything at Christmas. I've always loved this cookie recipe, which she cut out as stars, trees, and bells for Christmas, and iced them with yellow, green and red icing respectively. She would put sugar sparkles on the trees and bells, and dot the points of the stars with silver dragees. It's a difficult dough to work with, but worth the effort. And, if I recall correctly,...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska,- The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is warning residents of an unusual phenomenon -- blood-sucking fish falling out of the sky. The department said in a Facebook post it received four reports in a single week of the toothed fish, identified as lampreys, being found on dry land in the Fairbanks area. "The local Value Village store found a live lamprey in their parking lot," the post read. "Another resident called and said he found one on his lawn!" The department said it's unlikely the lampreys have learned to fly. "The answer is probably gulls. Gulls are...

Police in Florida say an argument over pizza ended with a man throwing a hot slice at his roommate. According to the Tampa Tribune, the man's roommate called police after she says Daniel Allen Plunkett, 50, tossed a hot slice of pizza at her. She says it struck her left hand. The arrest report also states the woman had sauce on her shoulder. She was not injured. Plunkett denied throwing the pizza, telling officers it was actually his roommate who was throwing pizza. Officers did note that Plunkett was shirtless and had sauce on his chest. After further investigation, officers...

Over the last two years, I’ve dabbled with paleo, cacao, almond milk, seaweed, aloe vera and coconut water. My friends tell me I’m a “health hipster”. And what’s wrong with that? But then I learned that my chia seed addiction might have a real impact on the global food industry: this year, analysts from Credit Suisse warned that the consumer migration from carbs to proteins would damage the baking and milling industry, all because people are having ham and eggs for breakfast instead of Shreddies or toast. And there’s worse: what about the environment? What if my taste for goji...

You may be eating Frankensteak. Video of how Transglutaminase (aka "meat glue") is used to make "steak." Ribeye Steak On The Grill? (The Truth About Meat Glue)

I'm tired of paying good money for soft pickles..................

American businesses have a lot of "we're hiring" signs up. There were 5.4 million job openings in the U.S. in April -- the highest number of openings in 15 years. It is a record high since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking monthly job openings in December 2000. The surge in job openings this spring was even better than expected, according Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group. It's another sign that the economy appears to be rebounding and the winter slowdown was just a blip. Who's hiring? Over the past year, health care, business services and...

The operation to remove hundreds of tiny stones took doctors around two hours Doctors in China have removed 420 kidney stones from a man's body, blaming an excessive amount of tofu in his daily diet. Mr He from Zhejiang Province in eastern China, checked into the Dongyang People's Hospital complaining of intense pain in his abdomen last month. A CT scan revealed that his left kidney was packed full of stones, most of them tiny. Doctors operated on Friday in an agonising procedure that lasted about two hours. Mr He said he had a history of suffering from kidney stones....

A Chicago-bound Amtrak train had an unfortunate encounter with a tractor-trailer carrying 70,000 pounds of bacon that was “obstructing the tracks” last Friday, June 5 — the same day we reported on Indiana’s amazing bacon lottery. The train, Texas Eagle Train 22, collided with the truck near Illinois Route 53, and managed to overturn the truck, splitting it in half. “There's boxes everywhere [sic],” a passenger told NBC Chicago. “But somehow the driver was OK.” None of the crew or passengers were injured in the crash, but we assume all hope for the bacon was lost. However, if there were...

Nobody wants to find insect parts, rat hairs, mouse poop or maggots in their food. But the Food and Drug Administration does allows low levels of these nasty things along with a bunch of other icky stuff to be present in food, or the ingredients that go into it. In fact, the FDA considers such things to be "natural or unavoidable defects," and the agency maintains a "Defect Levels Handbook" to describe the acceptable levels. [snip] The FDA's handbook, which was released in 1995 and last updated in 2005, is a fun read. A person can find out acceptable levels...

A rare and elusive rabbit has been found, held and photographed by a researcher from the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Annamite Striped rabbit, found in the forests of Laos and Vietnam, was first documented by rabbit expert Dr Diana Bell and colleagues from UEA’s School of Biological Sciences in the journal Nature in 1999. It has rarely been seen since. Researcher Sarah Woodfin, who is studying for a Masters in Applied Ecology and Conservation at UEA, set out on a three-month expedition to track the recently-discovered rabbit and study its habitat. But she didn’t expect to see one...

If you live in the United States, you've probably seen an odorous house ant (Tapinoma sessile) – one of the most common ants in the country. And for more than 50 years they've been described as smelling like rotten coconut. But Clint Penick thinks they smell like blue cheese. And he can prove he's right. Penick is postdoctoral researcher at NC State. Most of his work revolves around ants, and for years he's been fascinated by the fact that you can identify some ant species by smell – such as T. sessile. In grad school he heard that T. sessile...

Giorgio Kolaj should have stuck with pizza joints. The co-founder of the international Famous Famiglia franchise racked up millions in debt, at least two lawsuits and a giant case of agita after he ventured away from his slice-and-a-Coke comfort zone five years ago to open his first fine dining restaurant — Valentino’s on the Green — an 8-iron away from the ninth hole at the Clearview Golf Course in Bayside, Queens. Located on city land in the former mansion of silent film actor Rudolph Valentino — and used later, in the ’40s, as a summer retreat by then-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...

A new international competition, from the team behind GlobalMeatNews, launches today (5 June) - the World Steak Challenge.

FORT HUACHUCA — The community is invited to join Fort Huachuca for lunch in celebration of the Army’s 240th birthday. Although the actual birthday is June 14, the celebratory meal will be served June 11. On June 11, the birthday meal will be served at the Thunderbird Dining Facility from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Service is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Weinstein Dining Facility. Cost of the meal is $9.05. The menus at both DFAC feature T-bone steaks, crab legs and shrimp with assorted side dishes and desserts. The Army continues to serve the United States...