Weird Eats

10 Junk Food Cookbooks

Who ever said cookbooks had to be all fancy and high-falutin'? Here's a list of works that are the perfect antidote to that sort of thing.

The Magic of Peanut Butter: 100 New & Favorite Recipes - by Skippy
The Magic of Jelly: 100 New & Favorite Recipes - by Welch's
The Marshmallow Fluff Cookbook - by Justin Schwartz
The Twinkies Cookbook - by Hostess
Brownie Mix Bliss - by Camilla V. Saulsbury
Cake Mix Cookies - by Camilla V. Saulsbury
Cookie Dough Delights - by Camilla V. Saulsbury
Complete Cake Mix Magic - by Jill Snider
Cake Mix Magic 2: 125 More Easy Desserts ... Good as Homemade - by Jill Snider
Spam: The Cookbook - by Linda Eggers

Weird Food At Mental Floss

If you've never had a chance to check out Mental Floss magazine's Web presence, now's as good a time as any to get started.

You could go with their blog post called Frankenfoods: Six Snacks Prepared In The Lab, which covers carbonated fruit, caffeinated donuts and more.

Or you could go with this post, In the Can: 6 Canned Foods We’re Reluctant to Try, assuming you can stand reading about such delights as pork brains in milk gravy.

Last of all, by way of CNN, is an article called Funky Fries and Other Foods That Flopped. Reddi-Bacon, anyone?