Who doesn’t love cereal? Whether it be from a bowl late at night,  eaten directly from the box in a fit of munchie fueled foraging, littered with candy marshmallows or possessing enough fiber to ensure you’ve reserved the staff washroom, we dig our flakes, smacks and loops immensely. It’s a $10.2 billion dollar  industry (2011 [...]

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Earlier this week, Huffington Post ran a story about a Florida woman who discovered a Goldfish cracker dotted with a supposed crown & cross. Immediately, before you could cry “production line error” it was deemed a sign of God. These days, there’s a better chance of discovering an image of Jesus on something you’re about [...]

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Board games have been around forever, so we’ve seen our fair share of food themed titles gracing the shelves at Toys R Us.  A lucky few have become classics, popping up in rec rooms and onto kitchen tables  for decades, while most others that obviously couldn’t afford a decent focus group, soon find themselves discontinued, [...]

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Some artist’s choose  paint as their medium, others prefer clay but for a select few, hot glue and marshmallow critters fit the bill nicely. The popularity of Peep themed dioramas around this time of year has skyrocketed. More and more contests seem to pop up annually as folks incorporate these brightly colored sugar bombs into [...]

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Back in 1888, the enterprising folks at the Thomas Adams Gum Company (Black Jack gum anyone?) rolled out their very first vending machines in the U.S.  Installed on the elevated subway platforms in New York they were stocked with the Tutti-Frutti brand.  The round, candy coated gumball and gumball vending machines which most of us [...]

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The Weird Al of product parodies, Wacky Packages made their debut in 1967, as a set of collectible stickers that gleefully lampooned popular household brands. An almost instant hit, they became a full blown fad in the early 70′s.  Kids would rabidly decimate candy store racks, in an attempt to complete their collection, while discarding [...]

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Horse meat is a hot topic right now and not because its become the next bacon.  Just ask a Public Relations executive at Burger King  or better yet any recently unemployed meat packing facility “Quality Control” supervisor in the UK. Personally, I’d  prefer a fighting chance when it comes to detecting an out of place [...]

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The next time you’re scraping off that top layer of jelly which accompanies every glistening block of  Spam, you can thank the French for providing your gag reflex a workout. During the first few years of the Napoleonic Wars,  France’s government offered a reward to whoever could invent a process for maintaining the shelf life [...]

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The mad scientists at Lays have released three new flavors to tantalize and perhaps in many cases, terrorize your tastebuds this week. There’s no denying, North American junk foodaholics get worked up into a salivating, frenzied mob when a new potato chip variety hits the retail racks. Heck, I stalked my local grocery store stock boy [...]

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If  Veggie Tales has taught me anything, it’s that most produce are pun loving,  Bible thumping zealots whose idea of getting randy would be trying to woo their better half with Bazooka Joe comic level play on words. Of course,  pickling would take this to an entirely different level of cucumber on artichoke debauchery. What [...]

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