CULTURE BUZZ: The “wine rack”/”cups runneth over” jokes here are just too easy. Yes, it’s a bra insert that allows you to drink from two small bags of booze through a straw. Given enough time, designers are sure to create every possible method of alcohol delivery, and we are waiting for Booze Shoes(TM) to appear. Update: Oops, we’re too late .

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1. Let’s Hope These Don’t Leak Like Silicone Implants
2. Order Your Wine Rack Here
3. If Only They’d Had These During Prohibition
4. Boost Cup Sizes, Also Get Drunk

FOOD BUZZ: Just in time for independence day, America-themed champagne. Apparently George Washington celebrated with champagne so why shouldn’t we. Plus, they are mini! Just pass me a straw.

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1. Pommery Pop America Champagne
2. Champagne POMMERY
3. Buy Pommery Pop American Champagne

FOOD BUZZ: A bar in Canada serves up a sourtoe cocktail using a real, preserved human toe. The Sourtoe Cocktail Club started in 1973, you can add the pickled toe to the drink of your choice but the rules stipulate that the drinker’s lips must touch the toe. I thought it was bad enough that I end up putting my own foot in my mouth after a few cocktails.

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The Best Links:

1. Sourtoe Cocktail Club
2. THE SOURTOE COCKTAIL: A Canadian Tradition
3. Bar Owner Dick Van Nostrand Serves Up a Sourtoe Cocktail On the Good Food Podcast
4. Sourtoe Cocktail
5. Yukon’s cannibalistic cocktail
6. Been There: The Sourtoe Cocktail Club

FOOD BUZZ: Marilyn Manson has released his own brand of 66.6% proof absinthe . The authentic absinthe is made in Switzerland, and per Manson’s specifications contains the highest amount of wormwood allowed by law. The 19th century bohemian spirit once favored by Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde is now officially on its way to becoming the drink of choice for goth pre-prom parties.

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The Best Links:

1. Mansinthe Official Page
2. Evan Rachel Wood Can’t Handle Marilyn Manson’s Absinthe
3. Introducing….MANSINTHE!
4. Experts do a Taste Test of Mansinthe
5. Marilyn Manson’s 66.6% Absinthe
6. Marilyn Manson Makes Absinthe? And It Won an Award?
7. Read the Mansinthe
8. Mansinthe: It tastes…. interesting.
9. Jonathan Amis Gets Drunk On Mansinthe

FOOD BUZZ: Chef/Scientist Dave Arnold uses a vacuum to infuse a cucumber with with a gin martini. Yum, a martini you can chew. Perfect for those of us who like to think the olives in our martinis count as dinner.

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The Best Links:

1. Video of the Making of an Edible Martini
2. The Edible Martini
3. Check Out the Edible Martini
4. “The Martini of Tomorrow, Today”
5. Eating an Edible Martini
6. Wow an Edible Martini
7. Edible Cocktail Explained

FOOD BUZZ: Carbonated vodka. Enjoy an effervescent drink without the pesky mixer. Some of the cocktail recipes on the O2 website include a Jellybeantini, Caviartini and Sushitini. Yikes!

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1. Bubbling Fool
2. Camitz Sparkling Vodka
3. “Sparkling Vodka Makes Its Way To The US”
4. Bubbly Vodka
5. VODKA 02
6. Forget sparkling wines, try sparkling vodka
7. The Champagne of Vodkas
8. Bubbles in Your Vodka a Good Thing on the Upper East Side; House …
9. DIY Carbonated Vodka

FOOD BUZZ: Bacon infused vodka recipes are catching on with adventurous drinkers. Long known as a gateway meat, tempting even the strictest vegetarians to stray, bacon has now found its way into our martinis. Bacontarians rejoice!

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The Best Links:

1. How to Make Bacon Vodka
2. Bacon Bloody Mary Photo Roundup
3. Yum, A Bacon Martini
4. One Man Makes Bacon Vodka, With Pictures and Commentary.
5. I served bacon martinis at my bacon party!
6. Friends Enjoying a Bacon Cocktail On Flickr
7. Photo of a Bacon Vodka Shot On Flickr
8. Bacon Cocktail Ideas for Every Month of the Year
9. Bacon Martini Recipe On Flickr
10. Step by Step Photos of the Bacon Vodka Enfusion Process

FOOD BUZZ: Iron Wine, a Buenos Aires boozery, is selling the “world’s first canned wine.” It’d be cool if they got that band Iron and Wine to be their official spokespeople.

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1. A Semi-Whack Food Idea
2. Forget Box Wine, Canned Wine is the Way of the Future
3. Paris Hilton Banned from Oktoberfest while Representing Canned Wine in a Dirndl Outfit
4. Could cracking a can of wine become common?
5. Ironwine’s official website

FOOD BUZZ: Healthful cocktails that use vegetables and fruits as mixers. Your waistline will thank you! But we can’t say the same for your liver.

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1. “You can drink a ton and not wake up with a hangover”
2. Antioxidant Cocktails Featured in “Women’s Health” Magazine
3. The Lesser of Two Evils
4. Urbanites Now Congregating at Organic Juice/Cocktail Bars
5. The High-Fiber, Low-Calorie Cocktail: Metamucil Martini, Anyone?