Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Calbee Consomm? Chips
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?So I was all set to show you this unknown restaurant in Japan, sent to my notice by Jess S., which prepares food as a human corpse which you “cannibalize” to eat. Apparently the “body” even bleeds when you cut into it — delicious! But then Spazweez sent me a potato chip commercial. How could a potato chip commercial be more bizarre than a cannibalism-themed restaurant?
That’s how. I have a phobia about big dogs anyhow, so if anyone ever wanted to make me shit my pants uncontrollably and simultaneously make my heart explode in pure terror, all it would take is dressing up as this nightmare and walking toward me briskly.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.