Monday, August 13, 2007
Strange News from the Food Front (8/13/07)
A weekly round-up of food and drink oddities:
- Keeping Diners on Ice Chillout is the name of a new lounge in Dubai where everything is made of ice. Canadians designed it. Why is this not surprising?(AP)
- Hansel and Gretel and Bonnie and Clyde Some teenagers that broke into a gas station were caught in part to the trail of candy wrappers they left as they made their escape. (AP)
- Muffin Meltdown A giant plastic muffin that had been stolen from a supermarket and apparently had sentimental value was found melted into a puddle. (NBC)
- Excuse Hard to Swallow Indian police fed dozens of bananas and then chicken and rice to a theft suspect to get him to ... um ... produce the gold necklace he had swallowed. That's getting to the bottom of the case. (Reuters)
- Encapsulation of the Food Chain Beijing officials are closing food stalls that were attached to public toilets. (Reuters)
- Snail Consumption Speeds An escargot festival ended with participants having polished off 100,800 of the creatures, which actually came from Poland. (AFP)
Labels: Beijing, Chillout, Dubai, escargot, ice, India, thief, toilets
