M&M eating styles
Rosa The folks at CandyStore have?an extremely thorough blog post detailing all the different ways in which people eat their M&M’s. Options include melting them under a desk lamp, sorting them…
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Chewing gum flavored milkshake
Via Kotaku, news that you can get mint chewing gum flavored milkshakes in Japan. Sounds gross to me, but I don’t like gum, so maybe I’m biased.
Maison Kayser chocolate tart food porn
Via Serious Eats, check out this drool-worthy slideshow of how Maison Kayser bakery uses chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate to make their scrumptious looking tarts. I’ll take two, please!
Peep in a vacuum
Ok, this is a bit late since prime Peeps season is long gone, but it’s so cool I’m going to share anyway. From Slate’s Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait, check…
British candy quiz
From the folks at Yolli, a fun candy quiz where you guy the candy bar from its wrapper. I only got 30/40 because I didn’t recognize some of the British…
Bad news for chocolate lovers’ wallets
Via Slate, more news on price hikes for chocolate: Mars is going to raise chocolate prices by about 7%, while Hershey’s will raise their prices by 8%. Prices on cocoa…
Edible blown glass made of sugar
Aureole is a restaurant that I will likely never be able to afford to eat at. Thanks to Serious Eats, however, I can vicariously visit through this behind the scenes…
Child labor and chocolate bars
Via Knile, here’s a sobering piece from Vice on how cocoa farms in C?te D’Ivoire have a child labor problem. I am?very curious as to which chocolate makers are buying…
Foosball + gumball table
Via the internets, I have learned that there’s a foosball table that uses gumballs as balls, so that everyone wins! Awesome, if only gumballs tasted better.
Lindt’s chocolate hegemony grows
Via Emma, news that Lindt, which already owns Ghirardelli, is buying up Russell Stover as well. Lindt predicts that this acquisition will help them reach sales of $1.5 billion in…
More cute candy from Japan
Via Kotaku, with a hat-tip to my friend Steve, check out the amazing candy wizards at Amezaiku Yoshihara that make incredible candy art.
Chocolate quadcopter
Via Slate, someone built a working quadcopter (like a helicopter, but with 4 prongs where rotors go) with a base made of chocolate. Because… why not? You can eat it…