Hasta La Gadget!

Some people carve pumpkins for Halloween and put them in front of their home, others decorate the yard. Others make creepy foods like a demented Martha Stewart. That is what Dan Whalen of The Food in My Beard did this past Halloween.

It doesn’t involve lots of blood, severed limbs or ghosts. The grossness he created is something we all have in common – earwax.

Dan used a pesto sauce for some nasty green earwax and the Q-Tips are balls of mozzarella cheese and lollipop sticks. He even made the ear-shaped bowl himself. Awesomely disgusting.

He might have made this for Halloween, but really this is good for any time of year if you want to gross out your friends.

[via Foodbeast via Make: via Neatorama]

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