FOOD BUZZ – A soda bottle attachment that makes it easy — finally! — to make a ice cream float on the go. This cup is second only to the cup that lets you enjoy a cool soda and tasty chicken nuggets at the same time in terms of cups that are plain awesome.

The Best Links:

1. Fizz Cup: A Cup of Fizzy, Sloppy, Loveliness (buy Here)
2. See the Fizz Cup in Action, Set to the Tune of Depeche Mode
3. From the File of Things We Do Not Need
4. Free From the Tyranny of Glasses Forevermore!
5. Not Exactly New: Gizmodo Post from 2006

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FOOD BUZZ – Chicago lifts its foie gras ban, foodies rejoice. With the ban’s sponsor shouting objections, the City Council finally voted to overturn its ban on duck (or goose) liver, specially fattened via force-feeding. Chicago’s finer restaurants will no doubt be busy tonight.

The Best Links:

1. An Embarassing Ban is Rescinded
2. Vive le foie gras!!
3. A Stupidity Repealed
4. ?? “It Could Happen To You”
5. What Would You Want to Be Force-fed if You Had to Become Foie Gras?
6. The Making of Foie Gras

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FOOD BUZZ – Activate is a new drink that stores vitamins and herbs as powder in a chamber inside the cap in order to keep the nutrients fresh. The packaging is kind of nuts. Just looking at that neon-colored liquid makes me feel refreshed already.

The Best Links:

1. Activate Drinks Review - Tons of Photos and Even a Video
2. Video Demonstration - The People who Drink Activate Are Totally Buff
3. Drink Companies Have to Stay Creative, Edgy to Compete
4. Activate Drinks: The Official Website
5. More Pics of the Beautiful Packaging and Innovative Concept
6. Splenda Mixed with Vitamins - Are You Sure That’s Good for You?

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FOOD BUZZ – A seller on Etsy has crafted vegan soaps made from Pabst and Guinness. This is probably the last thing you want to bathe yourself with the morning after a vomitous night of binge drinking. But for any of you who have ever looked at a keg and wished you were soaking in it, bathing with beer soap might be the next best thing.

The Best Links:

1. Buy the Beer Soap on Etsy
2. Beer Actually Has a Broad Range of Uses, Including Antibacterial Cleansing Properties
3. The Soap Is Vegan
4. Bathing with Beer without the Hangover
5. Experimentations in Soapmaking: Sierra Nevada vs Busch Lite vs Blue Moon
6. Guinness Soap on Etsy (Sold Out for Now)
7. An Alternative to Bathing in a Keg

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FOOD BUZZ – A Georgia senator named Doug Stoner wants to ban the sale of marijuana-flavored candy. It’s hard to say we’re going to miss a product that we never even knew existed. But now that we know it does, where can we get some??

The Best Links:

1. Adventures in Irony: The Guy Who Wants to Ban Candy Is Named Doug Stoner??
2. Stoner Helps Ban Sale Of Weed Candy
3. “Every Lick Tastes Like a Hit!”
4. Hemp Oil Not Illegal, Imparts Pot Taste without the High Effect
5. This Could Lead to the Ban of More Hemp Products
6. “There’s actually a marijuana-flavored candy? Seriously?”

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FOOD BUZZ – Beyond the ubiquitous International Thumbs Up Guy, there’s a whole world of weird food statues out there. The New York Times has a quick look at phenomenon of eerie fiberglass food vendor statues from around the globe. The hot dog guy always makes me feel a little sick with the way he spurts mustard and ketchup on himself; he’s included with other disturbing examples I’ve found.

The Best Links:

1. Winking Chefs From Around the World
2. The International Thumb’s Up Guy Flickr Pool
3. French Fry Guy (With Pug)
4. This Could Drive Customers Away
5. Hot Dog Guy is Almost Unbelievably Creepy
6. Mmm, I’m Delicious!!!!
7. Creepy Colonel Saunders
8. This Child Is Going to Die
9. Ronald McDonald is Actually Pretty Creepy, Now That You Mention It

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FOOD BUZZ – A pan that makes perfectly round pancake puffs that can be filled with anything, from hot dogs to jam. The part during the infomercial where they inject the pancake with beef gravy just made my mouth water. And just think of the amazing brunch you’ll be able to make for your friends with this thing.

The Best Links:

1. Sound Gross? I WANT ONE!!!
2. The Official Site - Watch the Ad
3. Kids Choose to Watch Infomercial Instead of Quality Television
4. These Would Be Amazing in a Food Fight
5. We Got One as a Wedding Gift - Pancake Puffs RULE!
6. We Love Our Pancake Puffs - See Our Chocolate Eclair Version
7. OMG You Can Also Make PIZZA Puffs!
8. “I finally made them this morning and let me tell you they were TASTY”

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FOOD BUZZ – Drink connoisseurs who want the ice option with the least surface area are turning to ice balls as the solution. From cheap plastic ice molds to pricey ice presses, there are a variety of ways to make your ice round (and here’s how to make it totally clear, if that’s important to you).

The Best Links:

1. A New Way to Make Ice Balls
2. Ice Ball!
3. Attack of the Ice Balls
4. How to Make Crystal Clear Ice
5. Various Ice Molds, Including the Ice Mug! (In Japanese)

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FOOD BUZZ – Surprise! It’s from Japan. Available in several different flavors, it’s really more like flan than pudding, but let’s not get too technical — it’s the packaging here that’s noteworthy.

The Best Links:

1. Pudding Package in Japan Features Boobs
2. Niigata’s Popular Custard Boob Pudding
3. Many Different Packages to Choose From
4. Risqué Japanese Boob Pudding
5. Japanese Boob Pudding

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FOOD BUZZ – Controversy erupts over a new technique for farming nonpoisonous fugu. Fugu is DANGEROUS and people die from eating it! But that might be the very reason it is prized as a special delicacy. Now farmed-raised, nonpoisonous Fugu is threatening to undermine Japan’s entire Fugu-Industrial Complex.

The Best Links:

1. Fugu Controversy Exposed by New York Times
2. Fugu Prepared By Master Chef (Video)
3. Fugu Pufferfish on Wikipedia
4. Homor Simpsons Eats Fugu (Video)
5. Tetrodotoxin, the Poison in Fugu, is 10,000 Times More Lethal Than Cyanide

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