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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE GERTRUDE STEIN One wouldn't expect a sandwich named after a novelist to appear in Texas, but Austin's Schmaltz deli will provide a vegetarian option she'd be proud of. The sandwich consists of goat cheese, avocado, sweet pickled onions, roasted red peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and micro-greens. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hero

Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE BRUNO SAMMARTINO HERO Hero to Italian Americans and wrestling fans in general, Da Brune is honored by Lioni Italian Heroes with a sandwich made of fried eggplant, fresh ricotta, salt, pepper, basil, and sun-dried tomatoes. A hearty meal like that can make anyone a WWF champion for 2,803 days in a row. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE JERRY SEINFELD COMEDY SPECIAL New York's Peanut Butter & Co. offers this simple dish created by Seinfeld himself. Seinfeld credits this open-faced H&H bagel with peanut butter, honey, and cinnamon for helping him survive his early years as a struggling comedian. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities 87927 THE TIM ROBBINS If you order the Shawshank Redemption star's sandwich at Stage Deli in New York, you'll be treated to a tall sandwich piled on with corned beef, turkey, pastrami, roast beef, and Swiss cheese. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE RANDY SAVAGE The Macho Man's meaty sandwich comes from the Two Beards Deli, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This grapplin' gobbler consists of turkey, ham, bacon, tomato, lettuce, cheddar, Swiss cheese and roasted tomato garlic mayo sandwich, elbow-dropped onto sourdough or nine-grain wheat bread. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities HB W THE MARSHAWN LYNCH You can tackle this sandwich over at lke's Love and Sandwiches, in Southern California. The monster sandwich's ingredients include fried chicken, bacon, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and Beast Mode BBQ sauce. W CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE NEIL PATRICK HARRIS NPH would frequent Pappa Charlie's Deli in Massachusetts so often that they put his regular order on the menu. Harris' sandwich consists of grilled chicken breast, Dijon mustard, BBQ sauce, coleslaw, and pickles, con all on a toasted roll. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE DOLLY PARTON Fox's Deli in Rochester, NY honored the country singer with a hot turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato, bacon, mayo, and American cheese. A home-grown American classic, much like Parton herself. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michelle Obama

Sandwiches Named After Celebrities MICHELLE OBAMA'S MICHELLE MELT As a nod to the former first lady's attempt to get Americans to eat healthier, the Good Stuff Eatery in D.C. created a turkey burger in her name. It includes a free-range turkey meat patty, veggies, and Swiss cheese on معملك a whole wheat bun. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities LUTHER VANDROSS' THE LUTHER As cited on The Boondocks, this bacon cheeseburger with grilled onions uses two donuts instead of a bun. Much like Vandross' songs, this burger can cause deep loving feels and break your heart (literally). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE DEVITO Danny DeVito probably doesn't know about Tony's Deli in Montgomery, TX naming an Italian sandwich after him, but now you do! The Devito has Genoa salami, maple ham, pepperoni topped with parmesan and mozzarella cheese, served hot on crusty Italian bread. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE DEE SNIDER The California-based Grill 'Em All features many decadent and obscenely large burgers on its menu, but its ode to the Twisted Sister lead singer is a beast of its own. The Dee Snider is a half-pound burger with peanut butter, strawberry jam, bacon, and sriracha sauce. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE MAYA ANGELOU lke's Love and Sandwiches in Southern California has a number of celebrity sandwiches, but the one dedicated to the poet feels out of left field. It's made up of vegan steak, lettuce, tomato, cheddar, yellow BBQ sauce, and lke's dirty sauce (which we're assured is just seasoned mayo). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE BRUCE LEE BURGER Santa Cruz's Burger restaurant (literally it's just called Burger) paid tribute to the martial arts film legend with a burger he'd enjoy. The Bruce Lee consists of a ground turkey patty, jalapenos, pineapple, pepper jack cheese, and jalapeño aioli. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE CONAN O'BRIEN In 2001, O'Brien visited the famous Stage Deli in New York City to create (and taste) a sandwich named after him. After some negotiation, they settled on corned beef, pastrami, and brisket piled almost as tall as Conan himself. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Real Night King

The Paramonovius nightking is a bee fly that's characteristically similar to a certain villain from Game of Thrones. Like the Night King, the insect only shows up during the winter and has a crown of thorn-like spines on its head. According to the scientist who studied it, it also zombifies other species in the name of reproduction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A bee called the Chilicola charizard possesses similar facial features to Charizard from Pokémon. While other bees have yellow snouts, the species has a long orange snout like Charizard. The scientist who discovered it also revealed that his first Pokémon (in the game) was Charmander-which evolves to Chameleon then Charizard. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Tritonia khaleesi, a boneless little sea slug with a pale, slender body, was named after Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea. According to the scientists who discovered it, the slug's pale plumes look a lot like Daenerys' blond, braided hair does in the Game of Thrones series. It was also considered that both the slug and khaleesi are small in size. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bob Marley’s Web

Bob Marley's song, High Tide Or Low Tide, made him namesakes with a pretty hairy spider known as the Desis bobmarley. Being one of the few that live in the ocean, the spider survives by hiding during high tides and hunting for food during low tides. The scientist who discovered it was listening to the song during his research when he realized it was a perfect fit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's an ant with a spine so dragon-like that scientists called it the Pheidole drogon, after Drogon from Game of Thrones. The ant uses its defined spine, which is made up of spikes and filled with muscles, as a weapon of defense against predators. It's also a lot stronger than other ants that don't have spines. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Black Panther Fish

The Vibranium Fairy Wrasse got its name because its glowing purple scales reminded the researchers of the Black Panther's suit. Its scientific name, Cirrhilabrus wakanda, was also inspired by the film. The scientists found it in a secretive and isolated African reef over 200ft below sea level-a location they likened to the hidden city of Wakanda. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Aleiodes shakirae is a parasitic wasp that tortures its host into gyrating its abdomen like a belly-dancing Shakira. When the wasp injects its eggs into a caterpillar, the caterpillar lives a pretty normal life until the eggs hatch and literally eat their way out of its body. According to scientists, the caterpillar wiggles like Shakira before being desiccated. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Metallica gladly welcomed a new member of a different species, the Macrostylis metallicola, into their rock 'n' roll family. MACROSTYLIS METALLICOLA The band told the world (via Instagram) about the blind, colorless crustacean species and its dark habitat of metallic nodules. They also didn't fail to mention that the scientist who discovered it has been a fan since childhood. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Eriovixia gryffindori spider is named after one of the oldest characters in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The odd-looking spider is shaped like the Hogwarts School Sorting Hat, which originally belonged to Godric Gryffindor (one of the school's four founders). Its patterned body lets it camouflage as a dried-up leaf for survival purposes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A tiny, harmless organism discovered in a termite's gut was named after H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu monster. The Cthulhu macrofasciculumque has a mass of tentacles which immediately reminded the scientists of Lovecraft's description of the monster. Its species name was intentionally made complex to match the monster's alien moniker. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A wrongly-classified pterosaur was renamed Targaryendraco wiedenrothi in honor of the Game of Thrones dragons. The flying reptile had two wings and two legs like the Targaryen dragons-which the researchers say are more biologically accurate than four-legged dragons. Its dark fossils also resemble the black bones of George R. R. Martin's dragons. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chewbacca from Star Wars shares his moniker with a scaled, flightless beetle called the Trigonopterus chewbacca. The beetle has a bulky black body with limbs and a set of antennae that look rusty. The scientists were able to look beyond these, though, and find Han Solo's sidekick in the distinctively dense scales, covering its head and legs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A grad student named the Kaikaia gaga after Lady Gaga because it has crazy horns and a wacky fashion sense. N N VID DE MUS MUSIC AWARDS The treehopper species, with its eccentric look and out-of-place genitalia, is one of thousands who sing to themselves by vibrating on plants. It was grouped under an entirely new genus because of its unique leg hairs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A dwarf planet and its moon were nicknamed Xena and Gabrielle (after the warrior princess and her sidekick). The TV show names were never made official because the scientist who chose them decided that they were just too informal. About a year after their discovery, their official names became Eris and Dysomnia. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scientists discovered a dinosaur fossil that looks just like Zuul, the Gatekeeper of Gozer, from 1984's Ghostbusters. The creature's spiked, sledgehammer-like tail, combined with its facial resemblance to the Ghostbusters monster, earned it the scientific name Zuul crurivastator. This translates from Latin to Zuul, Destroyer of Shins. CRACKED.COM — Source

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