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This oddball food combo is taking TikTok by storm

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This oddball food combo is taking TikTok by storm

Call them gummy polar bears. As if there weren’t enough incongruous-seeming food combos circulating TikTok: Social media gourmands are marinating gummy bears in Sprite and then freezing them to create a texturally anomalous treat. This phenomenon was started as an ASMR trend by @emiriASMR, who illustrated the auditory appeal of crunching down on the frozen … Read more

Steve Dildarian on the weird, oddball universe of ‘Ten Year Old Tom’

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Steve Dildarian on the weird, oddball universe of ‘Ten Year Old Tom’

Steve Dildarian said that growing up in Central New Jersey helped to shape the pessimistic, wry worldview of his animated alter-ego, “Ten Year Old Tom.” “There are some themes and threads throughout anything I’ve written — whether it’s a ‘me against them’ mentality or kind of peeking over the fence at a different, better life,” … Read more