Monday, November 12, 2007
Strange News from the Food Front (11/12/07)
A weekly round-up of food and drink oddities:
- Fuel the World with Chocolate A new process turns the byproducts of making chocolate into biofuel. Even your car wants a bite of that chocolate bar. (Reuters)
- A Really Rich Dessert A Manhattan restaurant has offered a dessert sporting cocoa, edible gold, truffle shavings, a take-home bowl decorated with gold and diamonds, and a $25,000 price tag, making it the world's most expensive dessert, according to the Guiness Book of World Records. Do they charge for a second spoon? (AP)
- Ham Soda Jones Soda has developed a holiday-themed soda pack, including such flavors as sugar plum, Christmas tree, Egg Nog, Christmas ham, and latke. Suppposedly even the ham flavor is kosher. Sure, and your rabbi is going to suggest hame and swiss sandwiches for lunch. (AP)
- Comparing Grapes and Apples The EU is close to deciding that wine can be made out of fruits other than grapes. Quick, someone pass the smelling salts to the French. (Reuters)
- It's Christmas - Drop the Mince Pie Apparently, there is an old English law, never repealed, making it illegal to eat mince pie on Christmas Day. this is one of a number of odd laws still on the books, including it being illegal to die in Parliament. (AFP)
- Lift, Separate, and Eat Sushi A Japanese lingerie manufacturer has developed a new bra that will allow women to stash their chopsticks. Hopefully, the rice girdle will shortly follow. (AFP)
