Donuts and Coffee - Boiled Together?

Sometimes the weirdest ideas fire us up. Often these ideas pop up in times of hunger or boredom. I think my weird ideas pop up because I'm really interested in how weird my food can get.

Case in point: I've boiled bananas in Sprite. It's a weird combo because consuming the two together will supposedly cause all kinds of stomach discomfort. The internet is full of guys and girls taking the "Sprite and Banana Challenge" and puking horribly afterward. If you're interested, you can see that video here:

But back to the case at hand. Donuts and coffee go together naturally. Like fingers on the same hand, you know? So I figured that boiling donuts in coffee would create a frothy, creamy drink that would be damn sweet. It would also pack that familiar morning caffeine punch.

Well, things don't always run as smoothly as you'd expect. It was an interesting experiment in food science. Anyone who considers themselves a food warrior would do well to check it out.

If you have any suggestions for future weird food mixes, let me know! I'm game for pretty much anything. Sometimes I'm game for everything.

Too Much...

Several years ago, Domino's Pizza ran a promo where you could order pizzas online and pick as many toppings as you wanted. They might still do it. The truth is that I haven't eaten anything from Domino's since late 2007.

Naturally, I find these kinds of promotions difficult to resist. A friend and I decided to custom-order pizzas that had virtually every topping on the menu. Like 11-12 toppings per pizza. It seemed like a funny idea at the time. Kind of a sneaky way to get more value without actually spending more.

Things took a bad turn when we drove out to pick up the pizzas. The guy who actually prepared our pizzas was irate at our ridiculous topping selections. He complained that it's hard to properly cook such a pizza - that you need to bake it longer and therefore risk burning parts of it.

"You guys really didn't need to order every damn topping on the menu!"

I took some offense to that. We didn't order every topping on the menu, for one thing. Besides, isn't the customer always (or usually) right? Why give me the option to pick 12 toppings if you're just going to complain about it?

I don't think that guy smiled once. He totally deserved the negative review we gave him. As for the pizzas? They tasted okay. Lots of intermingling flavors, little bit of burning, but thankfully they didn't seem contaminated. Maximum value achieved.

If I remember correctly, we followed up those pizzas with a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts from the $3.99 Midnight Special at the Long Beach location. Good times.

My next post will be a tribute to Ben Monson.... sort of.