No doubt about it, this ice cream cone, covered in caramel and Nilla wafers (from The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck) is our summer treat of choice. Lucky New Yorkers will be happy to hear that the Truck is rumored to soon be doling out toppings including sea salt and chocolate-covered bacon. It's gonna be a fat, fat summer.
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Nestle, world's largest food manufacturer has reduced sugar levels of some of its top-selling kids foods and will stop advertising non-nutritious products under a plan to improve its image worldwide. I chose the ugliest box of Nestle's I could find for the thumbnail, because I think this is a bad idea.
Food Buzz Chocoholics are pissed. Hershey’s has changed their chocolate bar recipe by replacing cocoa butter (what makes it nice and creamy) with vegetable oil (ew.) The switchover is due to rising costs. This is messed up.
Food Buzz A chocolate candy shaped like an anus. Not sure if this is real, but I am pretty sure it is nasty either way. The online store is closed until May 26th, 2008. Daddy, I want an edible anus now.
Food Buzz Mars has partnered with Dunkin’ Donuts to create the M&M’s Donut and the Milky Way Hot Chocolate. Reminiscent of Homer Simpson piling candy on his donut and trying to pass it off as sprinkles, the M&M’s donut is a cartoon fantasy made reality. The Milky Way Hot Chocolate on the other hand evokes a queasy shudder and has the diet blogs up in arms.
Food Buzz The newest product creation from Jamieson Laboratories - chocolate bars that relieve PMS symptoms. These candy bars make a great gift for the intolerable moody foodie in your life.
Culture Buzz A six-foot-tall chocolate Jesus is the source of Catholic outrage, gets taken down. It’s nice to know that the Catholic League pays more attention to the art world than most people do.