You’ll Think Twice Before You Put These Foods In Your Mouth Again

If you’ve ever watched the Food Network, you know that presentation is key. As those painfully wealthy chefs say, “We eat with our eyes first.”

And that’s why this list of well-loved delicacies is a little bit confusing. We don’t think twice about chowing down on scallops, passionfruit, and chili dogs, but perhaps if we spent more time looking at them before stuffing our faces, we’d be a little more critical.

1. Blue crab

Nothing like digging into a pile of legs that appear to have been pulled from a giant, alien-faced insect!

2. Rambutan

It looks awful before you crack it open, and even worse after.

3. Scallops

Scallops look much less terrible by the time they make it to our plates.

4. Passionfruit

Passionfruit is delicious. It’s just a shame that it has to look like lumpy mucus.

5. Squid

Slimy, limp, and full of tentacles, raw squid is truly a sight to behold.

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6. Truffles

As it turns out, one of the most expensive food items on Earth also looks like a turd.

7. Geoduck

Why did anyone think of eating these in the first place?

8. Ginger

One of the most beloved spices around the world also happens to look like a cross between a craggy tree and dog poop.

9. Lobster

Most people wouldn’t eat scorpions, but for some reason, none of us have any qualms with eating these.

10. Guacamole

Guac is yummy, good for you, and also looks like boogers.

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11. Oysters

The first person to suck one of these down was probably a little screwed up.

12. Noni

If you turned strawberries green and then replaced their seeds with tiny eyeballs, you’d get the wonderfully creepy noni.

13. Mussels

There’s a ton of seafood on this list. I’m sensing a pattern.

14. Chili dogs

Yeah, now that I look at one of these again, I think I’m going to lay off the chili dogs from now on.

15. Shrimp

This shrimp looks like something you’d smash and pick up with a tissue if you saw it in your house.

16. Figs

I feel like this is what you’d see if you did a cross-section of someone’s liver.

17. Octopus

Nothing says “I’m delicious” quite like being slimy and bulbous.

(via The Huffington Post)

Honestly, I haven’t tried a lot of these foods solely based on how they look. Can you really blame me? These things are nasty!

Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/ugly-food/

Christiane Amanpour deletes tweet wishing Robert Mugabe a happy birthday

http://twitter.com/#!/camanpour/status/304707026586570752

Now comes the hard part: what do you get for the serial human rights abuser who has everything?

Update:

Amanpour’s birthday wish has disappeared from Twitter, replaced with something a little more objective.

Robert Mugabe, how many more birthdays in power?on.cnn.com/VQ4kTK #Zimbabwe

— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) February 22, 2013

Update:

CNN’s Amanpour: ‘I helpfully adjusted’ my birthday tweet to Mugabe because I was being ironic

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/02/21/touching-christiane-amanpour-wishes-robert-mugabe-a-happy-birthday/

Coastal Carolina University on lockdown after reported shooting

http://twitter.com/#!/SaraCataldoxoxi/status/306570276215345152

Students at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., are reportedly on lockdown following what some are calling a drive-by shooting in an apartment complex.

Active shooter alert at Coastal Carolina-university advising all students to stay in dorms/classrooms b/c shooting suspect is on the loose

— Dianne Gallagher (@DianneG) February 27, 2013

MyFox8.com reports that students were directed to stay inside their homes and classrooms following news of an active shooter.

https://twitter.com/myfox8/status/306576824480178176

https://twitter.com/E_Gills/status/306571467125039104

Coastal’s on lockdown because of a shooting in our complex. Well… Not a great way to end the night.

— Carlotta Rose Nelson (@c_babyy11) February 27, 2013

https://twitter.com/RobboMy4/status/306575829087948800

https://twitter.com/jakelarson06/status/306575887019671552

Drive by shooting here at coastal carolina…. like WTF… be careful everyone! #sayaprayer #verysad

— Matt Huss (@mhuss5521) February 27, 2013

https://twitter.com/ImmaCrook/status/306568702445383682

Of any universities, I never thought Coastal would have a shooting. Thank God for your life. We could be dead.

— Ali Tay (@a_shingle) February 27, 2013

Shooting at my brothers college Coastal Carolina and the shooter hasnt been caught yet! GUNS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL! This is outta control!

— Gabbie Press (@GabbiePress) February 27, 2013

Update:

A Coastal Carolina student was pronounced dead after the shooting.

The student shot in the CCU drive-by last night has died. 🙁 wmbfnews.com/story/21390783… @twitchyteam

— Kenny Hitt (@fusionaddict) February 27, 2013

The shooter is reportedly still at large, but a campus security administrator said there is no ongoing threat to members of the Coastal Carolina community.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/02/26/coastal-carolina-university-on-lockdown-after-reported-drive-by-shooting/

Zing! Laura Ingraham, others slam gun-toting Obama Father’s Day pic

http://twitter.com/#!/IngrahamAngle/status/346036413680209920

Egads! A gun?

The White House tweeted out that photo for Father’s Day.

http://twitter.com/#!/whitehouse/status/346032124979195906

The predictable All About Obama nonsense aside, what’s up with the gun?

http://twitter.com/#!/redsteeze/status/346039069735784449

Do not ban mocking, however. Mock! Mock like the wind!

Twitter delivers.

http://twitter.com/#!/Chris_Stamos/status/346104911894806529 http://twitter.com/#!/JohnLWinkler/status/346082861272690688 http://twitter.com/#!/KRenner2/status/346050209924665345 http://twitter.com/#!/DoreenHDickson/status/346038554511679488

Awesome.

Twitter users also giggled madly at another White House-tweeted photo:

http://twitter.com/#!/RennaW/status/345562816222220289

He’s you.

http://twitter.com/#!/derekahunter/status/345561750596358144

Heh.

Never change, Twitter.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/06/16/mock-like-the-wind-laura-ingraham-others-slam-gun-toting-obama-fathers-day-pic/