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Watching This Guy Make Cotton Candy Art Is Incredibly Tasty
Have you ever tried to make cotton candy? Whenever I start twirling that stick in that intimidating centrifugal force of a cotton candy machine, my cotton candy turns out lumpy, tumorous and never looks appetizing. I mean it’s still delicious — like any sugary cloud would be — but it looks disgusting. This guy though, makes art with cotton candy. Imagine an edible balloon animal. That’s what this guy makes. God’s work. [YouTube via Neatorama]
Did Microsoft Steal Its New Logo From A Chocolate Company?
Ritter Sport makes fine German chocolate in a variety of flavours. Microsoft makes electronics and software of all sorts. Ritter is found in grocery stores, bodegas, and booze emporiums the world over. Microsoft is found in pockets and PCs and places of business all across the land. Both good companies. Both successful companies, bt neither one as much in common with the other…except perhaps for a logo.
Kid Invents Candy Cure For Historically Incurable Ailment
A 13-year-old girl from Connecticut named Mallory Kievman has come up with a pretty clever cure for hiccups: vinegar lollipops! She developed the idea after researching various at-home remedies — a teaspoon of vinegar, hard candy, etc — as well as the physiological reason for a bout of hiccups.
Stocking Filler: Wiimote Candy Dispenser
It’s two days before Christmas. Your annoying nephews are coming over on Christmas Day, and you haven’t bought them a gift yet. What do you do? Why, you grab one of these $2 Wiimote candy dispensers from your local Woolworths and wrap it up. Done and dusted!
If Frank Lloyd Wright Built Gingerbread Houses
This lovely ranch-style double-wide may not have exposed brick or vaulted ceilings, but man is it delicious. And there are so, so many more.
Nixie Tubes: The (Very) Slightly More Adult Pixy Sticks
The methods of caffeine ingestion range from typical (coffee) to X-TREEM (energy drinks) to sort of hardcore (5-Hour Energy), but none have been outwardly juvenile—until now.
The Candy Expo, Where Dreams and Diabetes Come True
Imagine a world in which all candy is free and you can eat as much as you want. Now stop imagining, because that place is the All Candy Expo. And I visited earlier this week.
Vending Machine Dispenses Comfort Food When Economy Stumbles
The Japanese have vending machines dispensing treats when an emergency strikes and the British, not to be outdone, now have one that dispenses snacks when the BBC reports something bad about the economy.
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