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Advertising: Whopper Sacrifice
A great viral advertising idea. For every 10 (virtual) friends you defriend at Facebook you get a free Whopper from Burger King (U.S. Residents only).
Finally someone is putting a price tag to virtual friendship (1/10 of a burger – xxx calories, xxx USD) and a way to bring all these SEO spammers to a better use. So far more than 12,000 friends have been un-friended.
Interestingly they have chosen Facebook and not, for example, MySpace. Maybe because they want to sell some Burgers as well.
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Data-Visualization: Ensuring the Future of Food
A Sims style data-visualization by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery explaining some of the complex networks around how food arrives on tables in Japan and the food industry.
Worth watching for the graphics alone.
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DIY: Melon Brains
If you’re still looking for some last details for Halloween get out and buy some water melons.
The Melon Brains how-to guide from Instructables is one of the best new ideas we’ve seen for this year’s Halloween.
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How-to create an edible Martini
With these Martinis its not about shaken or stirred. And the process is more elaborate than putting a bottle with Vermouth aside a glass filled with gin. You will need a vacuum machine one of those that are normally used to seal things for either cooking or preservation (we’re sure industry grade ones might work as well). So if your well sorted kitchen includes one of those devices or your friendly two star Michelin neighborhood restaurant will let you use theirs, well here’s a video that shows you how to put the pieces together.
In the video chef Dave Arnold…
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Food: Squirrel now officially on the menu in the UK
The UK newspaper “Daily Mail” today reports that grey squirrel are now “officially” on the menu in restaurants in Britain.
“…A top restaurant is serving up free grey squirrel pancakes to hungry diners. Peking duck-style squirrel wraps are being offered to diners at…
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Design: Cake Art
These are definitely some of the most outstanding cakes we have ever seen – each one is like a work of (edible) art. “I Dream of Cake” in San Francisco – established by artist Shinmin Li – does custom cakes of almost anything you could dream of – from wedding cakes over fashion items and fine art to children’s beloved icons. Have a look at their “online photo gallery” with dozens of images…
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