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Though I’m guessing (perhaps hoping) that the nostalgia-filled Circus Animals will remain on store shelves — someone has to buy those memories and make money by allow us to keep revisiting them, no? — this feels like a blow.

(via Slashfood)

Perhaps the most absurd part of the High Court’s ruling that Pringles are exempted from the VAT on crisps is that Proctor & Gamble happily pointed out how completely unnatural and unfoodlike their product is.

“It has a shape not found in nature, being designed and manufactured for stacking, and giving a pleasing and regular undulating appearance which permits comfortable eating.

“In this respect, it is unlike a potato crisp and, I would add, a potato stick or puff.”

He added: “A Pringle does not taste like a crisp or otherwise behave like one. Crisps give a sharply crunchy sensation under the tooth and have to be broken down into jagged pieces when chewed.

(via Slashfood)

Citing no one, Slashfood says that they — and most Girl Scout cookies — have been given a new, and terrible, name:

In my neck of the woods, Samoas are now “Caramel DeLites,” which sounds like the name of a dietetic candy old ladies buy at the Dollar Tree. Tagalongs are now “Peanut Butter Patties, Do-Si-Dohs are “Peanut Butter Sandwiches” and Trefoils are “Shortbread,” names which suggest either a wildly subversive anti-consumerist campaign a la No Logo (Declare Independence from Corporate Cookie! We Don’t Need No Name-Brand Baked Goods!) or a newly minted Robotic Cookie Namer down at Girl Scout HQ. All-Abouts (which was a weird name, I admit) are now “Thanks-a-Lots.” Try saying that un-sarcastically.

Commenters say this is a regional variation, but the horridness of the names is undiminished.

I remember hearing about this idea a few months ago, but it appears that someone is actually thinking about building one. It’s essentially what it sounds like, a farm that stretches vertically rather than horizontally.

This $200 million project would be able to feed 72,000 people for a year and would grow everything from apples to winter squash. Of course, all of the products would be distributed directly to the casinos and hotels, who will be funding the project in the first place. The farm could potentially make up to $25 million a year, plus $15 million in potential tourist revenue. That means that it would eventually recoup the enormous start-up costs, especially with it’s projected $6 million per year operating costs.

(via Slashfood)

From TreeHugger:

The word is one of 19 words or phrases on Lake Superior State University’s annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.

”[‘Organic’ is] overused and misused to describe not only food, but computer products or human behavior, and often used when describing something as ‘natural,’ says a quote on the university’s Web site (attributed to Crystal Giordano of Brooklyn, New York).

(via Slashfood)