"snakes" news and stories

Hasn't it been beaten to death yet? Everywhere you look, the most hyped movie of the summer that stars Samuel L. Jackson has infiltrated our language so that all we can say is "[something] on a [something]." Even here at Slashfood, we've had Snakes on a Cake, and Snakes on Some Toast. Both were cute, but you know, not as frightening as real snakes on a real plane, right?

But Deep End Dining's Eddie Lin has really done it on his blog, which, unlike other mini-spoofs, are real snakes on something that sounds about as close to "plane" as you can get - a plate. Phong Dinh Restaurant in Rosemead, CA put the snakes on the plate, and Eddie ate them. Granted, he was disappointed that the snake meat was ground and wrapped in leaves, but the restaurant redeemed itself by also presenting him with whole eels on a plate. Close enough.

See Eddie's post for the details of his encounter with snakes on a plate.

"At 30,000 feet, snakes aren't the deadliest thing on this plane"... not if there's a cake involved, anyway. The picture shown here is small, but this birthday cake is based on Samuel Jackson's upcoming movie, Snakes on a Plane (due to potentially offensive language, the full cake is after the jump). Somehow, "snakes on a cake" has more of a ring to it than the original title, though it is clear that the movie would have to be much shorter - on account of a cake being much smaller than a plane and able to accommodate fewer snakes. This is a great choice of birthday cake for a movie buff.

Read on to see the whole cake up close.

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Tina Cosby got quite a surprise when she took the broccoli she bought the day before at Tesco out of her refrigerator. Nestled amid the florets was a footlong snake.

Cosby, who has a fear of spiders, was hysterical when she saw the European smooth snake. While the snakes are not poisonous, she's lucky it was only a baby. They're known to grow up to three feet long. Tesco has apologized to the family, and has assurances from its suppliers in Spain that this will not happen again.

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