From ice bars to underwater restaurants to Japanese sake houses where monkeys are waiters, we’ve seen a lot of gimmicky places to get a drink. However none so far have given us a headache just by reading about them until now. The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Berlin opened a perfume-inspired cocktail bar on June 12, and it’s causing us to pause.

The bar, aptly named Fragrances, encourages patrons to select their cocktails based on matching scents. Fragrances currently offers a selection 15 cocktails, each corresponding to a different perfume. Designer perfumes from the likes of Giorgio Armani and Yves Saint Laurent sit beside respective liquors so that patrons may smell before they taste. “At Fragrances, we want our guests not only to enjoy their drinks, but to experience them,” bar manager Arnd Heissen told The Drinks Business.

Cocktails are as elaborate as the setup. The Earl Grey and Cucumber, for example, consists of Earl Grey infused Don Julio Reposado, pink lady apple juice, jasmine tea and vanilla, honey and cucumber syrup. It was inspired by the Jo Malone fragrance. Heissen told Yahoo Food that there have been no sponsorhip deals between the perfume companies and the Ritz Berlin, and that the hotel does not sell any of the perfumes.

Non-alcoholic beverages, like the Messe de Minuit and Penhaligon’s Orange Blossom, are also available, as are fragrance-inspired bar snacks — whatever those might be.

We’re curious to see how Fragrances fares, since we’ve always followed the rule prohibiting scented candles on the dinner table. Perhaps we’ve been mistaken this whole time, though. For now, we’re going to sit back and watch from a distance, because we’re feeling all this perfume and cocktail talk right between the eyes, in a throbbing sort of way.

Typically we get headaches after we leave a bar — like, the next morning when we wake up and need a Bloody Mary injection and an egg sandwich to the face. But before we even enter? We’re not so sure we’re ready for that. Would you go to a perfume-inspired cocktail bar? What perfume…er… cocktail would you choose?

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Faced with potentially hungry — and grumpy — passengers, a Frontier Airlines pilot treated them to pizza when storms diverted a Denver-bound flight to Cheyenne, where the plane was stuck for a couple of hours.

Cheyenne Domino’s Pizza manager Andrew Ritchie told The Associated Press that he got a call about 10 p.m. Monday just as he was about to send employees home. Ritchie said the pilot told him he needed to feed 160 people — fast.

“I put my hand over the phone and I said: ‘Guys, you’re coming back,'” Ritchie said, recalling what he told his employees.

In all, Ritchie said his crew made about 35 pizzas and delivered them to the airport, where the driver handed the food off to flight attendants. One of the passengers sent KUSA-TV a picture of flight attendants handing pizza boxes.

That number of pizzas is usually what his store handles in an entire hour, Ritchie said. This time, they needed to make them and deliver them in about 30 minutes, he said.

But that didn’t deter his co-workers, Ritchie said.

“Actually, they were super excited. They had a blast. It was a challenge,” he said. “It was definitely one of those ‘challenge accepted’ moments in time.”

Frontier Airlines did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press, but KUSA-TV reported that the company confirmed the episode.

The television station reports that the flight to Denver International Airport, which originated in Washington, D.C., left Cheyenne about 10:30 p.m., shortly after the pizzas arrived.

The flight was one of dozens that were delayed Monday evening because of heavy rain across Colorado.

Chew on this: A woman in Richland, Washington, is on a 30-day mission to eat nothing but pet food.

Dorothy Hunter embarked on the bizarre diet June 19 while stocking shelves at her business, Paws Natural Pet Emporium.

“I didn’t have time to go get a snack, so I grabbed a bag of treats off the counter, and I was like, wow, you know, these read better than normal people treats,” she told KNDO TV. “So I started eating the treats and I was like, you know, I could do this for 30 days.”

So far, she doesn’t have a bone to pick with the foods she’s eating — to a point.

“I’ve also been doing our oven baked blueberry treats, as well as freeze dried green beans, carrots,” she told the station. “I’m even doing some canned cat food, one is a succulent chicken, and it actually tastes really good. So I’m really happy with that one. I don’t do raw bones or meat products like that, or the frozen because I’m just not into raw.”

Hunter has lost at least two pounds eating pet food, and gained a dining partner in employee Amanda Kempf, who has been feeding the pet food to her kids as well.

“My kids love the dog treats as well, and I don’t mind them eating those because they are nutritious,” Kempf told the Tri-City Herald. “They even told their teachers, who then asked me if it was true. Everything is labeled here so you know what you’re buying, and you’re buying nutrition.”

Like human food, pet food is required to be compliant with food additive regulations and be free of pathogens. Still, consuming kibble comes at a risk, according to nutrition expert Madelyn Fernstrom.

“Choosing to experiment with pet food as a long term option is a nutritional negative and might make you sick,” she told Today.com.

Hunter’s 30-day pet food gorge mission just happens to coincide with the expansion of her store, but Mike Rylander of WTFark.com hopes it coincides with something that makes more sense.

“Please tell me this has something to do with the legalization of weed in Washington and not that she was just hungry and lazy,” he said.

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The only thing worse then having to cancel a family barbecue due to rain is not canceling the family barbecue and having a torrential downpour break through those perfect billowy clouds just as Uncle Irving is piling his plate high with coleslaw and hot dogs.

As if this isn’t bad enough just what the heck are you supposed to do with a grill full of hot dogs, corn on the cob and barbecued chicken?

Well biscuits, I can’t do much about the rain but I do have suggestions for some great ways to use leftover barbecue grub.

If you’ve got a sense of humor you might even turn this into a day-after-the-rained out-barbecue-soiree’. Could be twice as much fun and no lighter fluid needed.

Hot Dog Anti-pasto Salad

That’s right. You heard me. I invented this recipe after a barbecue I hosted got hit with all twelve plagues set upon the Pharaoh about two minutes after I threw the hot dogs on the grill. I was stuck with a fridge filled with wrinkly ol hot dogs, buns and a whole lotta condiments.

So here’s how it goes. Take your day old cooked and chilled dogs, slice them up and toss them with your fave anti-pasto fixings. I like diced red onion, sliced cucumber, plum tomatoes cut into wedges, diced celery, quartered artichoke hearts, pickled peppers and sliced olives. Whatever you like is just fine. Toss the whole thing up with olive oil and salt and pepper and then toss again with a little red wine or balsamic vinegar. You’ll want half as much vinegar as you had oil. Pour over a bed of lettuce and garnish with shaved Parmesan or Romano or asiago and say, “Just like my Italian Jewish mama used to make!”

Hot Dog Bun Croutons

If you have a sense of humor, you can make croutons out of the hot dog buns too. Seriously. Slice em up or cube em up, toss in olive oil, salt and pepper and then toast in the oven at 350 degrees until nice and crunchy, then sprinkle over around your anti-pasto.

Next Day Corn Salsa

Yep grilled corn on the cob is a fabulous idea for any outdoor event, that is, of course, if the event happens. The good news is corn on the cob is great for salsa.

Shave the corn off the cob and mix 2 coffee cups of corn with 1/2 diced bell pepper, ½ diced red onion, 1 and 1/2 jalapeno peppers (de-stemmed) and minced fine, 4 good drizzles of fresh lime juice and a handful of chopped cilantro. Season with salt and cumin. If you don’t like it hot, (wimp) use less jalapeno.

Barbecue Chicken Cobb Salad

Take all that gorgeous day old barbecue chicken and cut up into a nice dice.

Wash a head of Romaine lettuce and chop it up then lay it out on a round platter. Imagine your platter as a big pie. One slice of your pie cover with sliced avocado. One slice gets crumbled blue cheese or Roquefort. One slice gets sliced tomatoes any kind. One slice gets sliced hard-boiled eggs. One slice gets crumbled crunchy bacon, one slice gets diced avocado and one slice gets a heaping pile of barbecue chicken.

For the dressing –
Cobb-a-rama dressing

1 shot and a half of olive oil, 1 shot of sherry vinegar, 1 drizzle of fresh lemon juice, 1 plop of Dijon mustard, a drizzle of Worcestershire sauce and then salt, pepper and sugar to taste. Mix it all up and drizzle over your Cobb.

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If you’ve been to a pet store lately, you’ve likely seen the variety of foods available for your kitty and canine friends.

There’s organic food, grain-free food, natural food and holistic food, and you can find kibble or canned food for virtually every specialized diet.

With these kinds of options, it’s no surprise the ingredients in much of our pets’ food are just as nutritious as those in our own food. And one woman is out to prove it.

Dorothy Hunter, who owns Paws Natural Pet Emporium in Richland, Washington, believes that the food she sells in her store is not only good for pets, but it’s also good for people.

To prove it, she’s embarked on a 30-day pet food-only diet to raise awareness about the diets of people and their pets.

“I believe in our products and how good they are. I actually believe our pets are eating better than us,” she said on her YouTube channel. “With that said, for the next month, until July 19 … I’m going to eat dog food for a month.”

Hunter said she was inspired to try this new diet while restocking store shelves when she was hungry.

“I didn’t have time to get a snack, so I grabbed a bag of treats off the counter, and I was like, ‘Wow, you know, these read better than normal people treats,'” she told NBC affiliate KNDO. “So, I started eating the treats and I was like, ‘You know, I can do this for 30 days.'”

Since beginning her new diet, Hunter has munched on everything from pumpkin dog treats to pet-friendly green-bean chips.

“This is a really good diet for me, because I’m going to be eating some green beans today,” she told TODAY.

The FDA told TODAY in a statement that while pet food is not intended for humans, it is required to be free of pathogens and compliant with food additive regulations.

Hunter shares many of her eating escapades on YouTube, and her co-workers are often game to try a bite and weigh in the taste as well. In the video above, watch Hunter and an employee sample Merrick’s Classic Grain-Free Grammy’s Pot Pie canned dog food.