[jerryr]

Agreed. I created a humorous cooking site that quickly became the #1 google result for, "how to sort lentils." It still gets a lot of hits from poor souls who are trying to figure out what that vague "sort the lentils" instruction in their recipe means.

Later, I posted an article that proposed smoking coffee like crack. A Fox News station actually contacted me when they were working on a piece about teens smoking coffee to get high. They quickly dropped the conversation when I pointed out that the site is not a serious news source--as is evidenced by the fact that every posting is absurd.

[acd10j]

http://www.porkulent.com/2011/01/how-to-sort-lentils/ This must be it. Had a good laugh.

[jerryr]

Yup. That's it.

Edit: And this is the post that Fox was planning to reference in their story (if you're short on time, scroll past the blather and just enjoy the photos. Like they did): http://www.porkulent.com/2013/11/how-to-prepare-coffee/

[archagon]

Thank you, this is brilliant.

[Kronopath]

And now Google is putting your website in a callout bubble and treating it as fact: https://i.imgur.com/mIyZV9a.png

[jerryr]

That...is spectacular. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I can die happy now that I've contributed facts. How did they pick that particular excerpt, I wonder.

[nommm-nommm]

This topic actually came upon hacked news the other day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13800566

[jerryr]

Ooh. That does seem a little irresponsible on Google's part, and a bit less funny now. Thanks for the link!

[mirimir]

I wonder why they don't just say "look for rocks".

One also occasionally finds weed seeds in dried lentils and beans. And I imagine that there's selection for weeds with similarly sized seeds.