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Gross Things Found in Food
Type: Popular scam (though often the complaints turn out to be legitimate). Summary: Someone claims to find an inappropriate object in their food. Sometimes such claims are legitimate. Often, however, they are attempts either to extort money from the food vendor or to attract media attention. In 1906 The Jungle,…
John Harvey Kellogg
Type: Questionable Medicine. Summary: John Harvey Kellogg was a brilliant surgeon, the creator of corn flakes cereal, and health faddist who bordered on quackery. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Brothers John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan invented the breakfast cereal industry. Will Keith Kellogg was the business…
Manbeef.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website offered to sell human flesh. Manbeef.com appeared online in early 2001 and immediately caused a sensation. The site claimed to sell human flesh for the “sophisticated human meat consumer.” Visitors to the site could read the ‘recipe of the day’ as they viewed pictures…
Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
Type: Anti-corporate rumor. Summary: Despite a persistent rumor to the contrary, Neiman Marcus has never sold a cookie recipe for $250. URBAN LEGEND HAIKU Recipe was good, But it cost me too much dough. And now I am broke. (by AB) That’s a good cookie. I’ll get that Neiman Marcus.…
Rip-Off Recipe
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: A decades-old legend tells of a customer overcharged for a recipe. The tale of the Rip-Off Recipe was one of the most widely circulated urban legends of the twentieth century, and there is every indication that it is still going strong in the twenty-first. Over the…
Spud Server
Potatoes: the secret power source that fuels the internet Getting a potato to power a clock is the stuff of high school chemistry. Spud Server purported to take the concept a step further by using potatoes to power an internet server. Visitors to the site (which loaded agonizingly slowly) could…
Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: In 1957 the British news show Panorama convinced many of its viewers that spaghetti grows on trees. The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest is listed at #1 in the Museum’s list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. SPAGHETTI HARVEST HAIKUThere’s nothing…
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Gross Things Found in Food
Type: Popular scam (though often the complaints turn out to be legitimate). Summary: Someone claims to find an inappropriate object in their food. Sometimes such claims are legitimate. Often, however, they are attempts either to extort money from the food vendor or to attract media attention. In 1906 The Jungle,…
John Harvey Kellogg
Type: Questionable Medicine. Summary: John Harvey Kellogg was a brilliant surgeon, the creator of corn flakes cereal, and health faddist who bordered on quackery. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Brothers John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan invented the breakfast cereal industry. Will Keith Kellogg was the business…
Manbeef.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website offered to sell human flesh. Manbeef.com appeared online in early 2001 and immediately caused a sensation. The site claimed to sell human flesh for the “sophisticated human meat consumer.” Visitors to the site could read the ‘recipe of the day’ as they viewed pictures…
Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
Type: Anti-corporate rumor. Summary: Despite a persistent rumor to the contrary, Neiman Marcus has never sold a cookie recipe for $250. URBAN LEGEND HAIKU Recipe was good, But it cost me too much dough. And now I am broke. (by AB) That’s a good cookie. I’ll get that Neiman Marcus.…
Rip-Off Recipe
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: A decades-old legend tells of a customer overcharged for a recipe. The tale of the Rip-Off Recipe was one of the most widely circulated urban legends of the twentieth century, and there is every indication that it is still going strong in the twenty-first. Over the…
Spud Server
Potatoes: the secret power source that fuels the internet Getting a potato to power a clock is the stuff of high school chemistry. Spud Server purported to take the concept a step further by using potatoes to power an internet server. Visitors to the site (which loaded agonizingly slowly) could…
Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: In 1957 the British news show Panorama convinced many of its viewers that spaghetti grows on trees. The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest is listed at #1 in the Museum’s list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. SPAGHETTI HARVEST HAIKUThere’s nothing…