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OK. This may be my favorite infographic in at least the last 6 months. I may have picked bolder colors, but the information is amazing and presented in such a clever way. It talks about the practical consequences for competitive eating. What’s more fun than that? A barrel of monkeys eating a barrel of pickles, maybe. But I digress.
Joey Chestnut
In 10 minutes, Joey Chestnut ate 68 hot dogs. That was the equivalent of 20,196 calories, which is 7 days worth of calories if you’re talking about the human body. It’s also energy equivalent to lighting a lightbulb for 60 days straight. It would take him 26,00 pushups to work those hot dogs off. Joey’s segment of the infographic is capped off by a quote that tells us that in order to be a successful speed eater, you have to expand your stomach to “form an enormous flaccid sac capable of accommodating huge amounts of food.” Yeah, we all want to do that.
Oleg Zhornitskiy
This guy ate 9 jars of mayo in 8 minutes. That’s 2,791 grams of fat, which is more than 42 times the recommended daily allowance of fat (65 grams). Plus, even though they don’t say it, mayo has a lot of saturated fat. Energy-wise, Dude took in enough energy to power a Prius for 45 minutes. Fun factoid – surprisingly, people who speed eat professionally “eventually may develop morbid obesity, profound gastroparesis, intractable nausea, and vomiting…” No kidding. They don’t tell us how many pushups it would take to burn off all that mayo.
Sonya Thomas
Sonya likes boiled eggs. So much that she was able to eat 65 of them in just under 7 minutes. If you take the average human consumption of age and multiply it by 15 weeks, that’s how many eggs she consumed. They don’t tell us how many pushups she’d have to do, nor do they tell us what kind of machinery could be powered by that type of energy.
They end the infographic with a warning that you shouldn’t just jump into competitive eating. You should train for it.
Design: C
It’s hard to read white print on a light pink background. I did really enjoy the illustrations and the style of the illustrations. But that white lettering on the pink background – really kills the eyes.
Information: B-
It would be an “A” if they’d told me how many pushups Oleg and Sonya would have to do, and what sort of appliance or mechanical device the energy consumed by Sonya in the form of hard boiled eggs would have powered (pencil sharpener? passenger train?) And I need that kind of information. I’m emotionally invested.
Source: Competitive Eating by Restaurant Supplies
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I like a juicy hamburger as much as the next meat-loving person, but my age and health have prevented me from enjoying this American delicacy as much as I used to. Switching to grilled chicken sandwiches and the occasional fried chicken sandwich has been an easy switch for the most part, but sometime when walking in my neighborhood I will smell the aroma of burgers on the grill and get the desire to leap my neighbors fence and snatch a flame-grilled hamburger from the grill and devour it post haste, but I digress…
This infographic will make you feel hungry, guilty, ashamed, disgusted and then hungry again. Quite the run of feelings for a simple infographic about something as mundane as the hamburger.
Eight percent of Americans eat at McDonald’s on an average day and 96% of Americans eat a meal there at least yearly. It is no wonder McDonald’s is the leader hamburger retailer in the United States with 42% of the fast-food market.
The Anatomy of a Big Mac Burger
I was quite surprised to see the meat has no preservatives listed while the bread looks to be a chemist’s dream. The Big Mac bun has high fructose corn syrup, sugar, azodicarbonamide, ethoxylated monoglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate and some other words I can’t pronounce. The ammonium choloride must be what makes it taste so good? Other ingredients on the Big Mac include pickle slices, onions, lettuce, American cheese and the Big Mac Sauce which has many ingredients I also don’t recognize, but it sure it delicious.
Our Favorite Fast-food Hamburgers
There is certainly no shortage of choices if you are looking for a drive-through fast-food restaurant and our favorites shouldn’t surprise anyone, although some are certainly lesser known due to limited franchises in certain locales. Even though McDonald’s is the busiest, it’s burger was rated number 5. Burger King hamburgers came in at number 4 and Wendy’s square-shaped burgers were rated third best hamburgers. Number 2 was the In-N-Out Burger from the West coast franchise and the number 1 favorite hamburger was served up by Five Guys Burger and Fries!
Sadly, some of the burgers have calorie counts as high as 900 (Burger King Double Whopper), but In-N-Out Hamburger has a burger ringing in at only 270 calories. MdcDonald’s burger looks positively healthy compared to Carl’s Jr. Original Six Dollar Burger. The Big Mac has 540 calories while Carl’s Jr. burger tops out at 890 calories.
What A Burger!
The infographic also lists the world’s most expensive burger, The FleurBurger in Las Vegas, at $5,000. Kate Middleton’s favorite burger has 805 calories, but I’m not sure why we should care? The world’s weirdest burger, and my niece has prepared this, is a burger with a blazed doughnut bun, served with a fried egg and bacon. Heart attack city here I come.
A Fast-Food Infographic
The infographic is much like the fast-food it is informing us about. The information is met to be taken in quickly without much sustaining information contained. It is a fast read and the stats it provides are fun and give you some flavorful tidbits about hamburgers, their ingredients and information about the restaurants that serve them. The graphics are a lighter fare with nothing particularly standing out but nothing is working against the overall design. The infographic imagery is a mix of photography and simple line art which goes together okay. The colors feel right and don’t distract from the information, which is provided in easy to read typefaces. The deign and information serve each other well. Neither is great, but they also don’t hurt the piece.
Design: C+
The design was prepared fast and served hot, but the presentation left a bit to be desired.
Information: B-
Lots of nutritional facts to gawk at and some tasty details about the hamburger make this an interesting feast.
Hamburger Infographic provided by Weight Loss for All.
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It is a tough job to be a casino dealer, you explain and enforce the rules and wagering guidelines, ask players to place their bets and make sure that you give payoffs to the winners correctly.
There are a lot of variables for earning in the casino industry like shifting schedules and holidays. Casinos may not be getting as much numbers of patrons as they get before with developments like online gaming.
Online casino games being offered are just similar when you visit a real casino, you can play poker, blackjack and slot machines. You can also try the online version of roulette at http://www.casinotop10.net/roulette.shtml.
Many of us did not know that casino dealers are only earning about $25,000 per year. And a great portion of their earnings are from tips. Casino dealers are only expecting tips when you win and I think that it wouldn’t really hurt to share a small amount of the total amount that you wager with them.
Players who may want to avoid tipping can go to Australia or try a new game online by visiting http://www.casinotop10.net/video-poker.shtml for video poker.
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So, Food Service Warehouse, a national provider of restaurant equipment, has created a very interesting, and some would say disgusting, infographic on the topic of eating bugs. Now, I like to watch people who are pretending to survive on an island for $1,000,000 as a cash prize eating bugs as much as the next person, but when it comes to my protein intake I would rather it moo, cluck or oink, but I digress…
Sometimes I am not that gung-ho to read submitted infographics based on my own interests, but this infographic sucked me in with the foreign idea of eating insects as a diet change for the world’s population. Certainly a radical and stomach churning idea, but maybe we just have to get used to this culinary switch? A lot would have to factor into your thoughts about global warming. Do you believe it is happening? Do you think we can change it, if you do? Then do you believe eating bugs and creepy crawlies will affect it vs chowing down on steaks and pork chops?
The insect eating infographic goes into detail to set-up its case. How much nitrous oxide do our main food sources put in the atmosphere? It looks like 18% of the GHG (Greenhouse Gasses) come from our delicious livestock. And there are a crap load of hogs in Iowa, 6 hogs for every 1 person, in fact. So we have a lot of food walking around adding to the GHGs. The infographic proves its point about greenhouse gases and then offers the solution, which is to farm insects which produce far less GHG. Beef cattle produce 2,850 CO2 vs the less-yummy cricket which produces 1.57 C02. I wonder though if 2,000 or so crickets would be as filling as one cow? I guess that is an infographic for another day.
I am fascinated with this topic and think it is certainly “food” for thought. The data and information provided is very engaging, topical and well researched. I wanted more details and statistics to really convince me.
The design keeps with a “green” theme, using earth tones and a soft color palette. Green and brown with a tan background are all good and honest choices. The playful title graphic works well and using the millipede and the ants as part of the titling is a welcome addition to the fun feel of this infographic. Fonts are easy to read and I would guess Futura is the typeface chosen, which is clean and has a earthy feel with its rounded appearance. The animals appear to be clip art, which is okay because they look to be from a similar illustration style. My only fault is with the “stink lines” above each pile of creatures in the “farm insects not cattle” section.
While I may not be able to swallow the idea of eating a locust over a lamb chop, this eating insects infographic was very filling.
Design: B+
Very good effort and excellent layout. Easy to follow and simple design.
Information: A
I loved the idea and the research was an interesting read, even if I don’t like the solution to the problem of greenhouse house gasses.
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Many years ago I began to acquire a taste wine for that didn’t come from a box (best boxed wines) and even attended a wine tasting festival to better acquaint myself with the subtle nuances that my lovely wife said I was missing. Of course, drinking wine ain’t cheap, unless you are drinking cheap wine, and so this isn’t a activity to take up lightly. But if you are going to start down the path of the wine connoisseur then be ready to have blue teeth when drinking red wine so you might want to start with the whites, but I digress…
This infographic was created by Randy Krum for Vintank and illustrates the large number of wine related iphone apps that are available for the iphone owners that just can’t get enough information about wine. How many wine apps are available? At this time, and probably growing, 452 apps relating to wine are available in the iTunes store. That’s great news, right? Not so fast, over half of them have 2 stars or less (this includes no rating) for a rating. And sadly, only 28 have a 5-star rating so it would appear that this type of iphone app has more quantity than quality, so wine drinking iphone users should be as picky about their wine app as they are about their wine.
Of course if you have enough money to drink wine, then you can probably afford to buy more than one iphone wine app – you can buy all 452 apps for just $875.25. That’s much cheaper than many of the expensive wines listed here. If you are looking to save your money for actually buying wine then I have good news as many of the apps, in fact most of the apps are for free and many more are just $.99.
So the information is light, like a nice white wine, but still has good flavor. The design contrasts as it has a darker, heavy feel, kinda like a Merlot wine. Classic and elegant thin fonts on a black background with bright colors for most of the graphics leave a pleasing aftertaste for the visual palette. Some of the text is a difficult to read such as the purple and blue text, but this infographic doesn’t pretend to be more than it is, a playful bit of information housed in a simple, quick-glance design.
After drinking in this infographic, I think I’ll have one more glass, after all, I’m not driving.
Design: B-
I wanted to see more creative use of wine paraphernalia such as cork screws and wine glasses and the darker colors were hard to read, but cohesive feel throughout.
Information: B-
The information that was included was interesting and covered the topic well, but only because it was a very niche topic.
