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Carbonated Cucumber Juice – Interesting Food Product

Here we have what you have been waiting for, a carbonated cucumber drink – and Mr Q Cumber advertises it on his webpage!

(click the image to open website)

Not really cucumber but a formulated with a cucumber essence – that really takes some gumption to think you could sell that! But then [...]

The USA’s Banned Foods

This is of Banned Foods is maybe a reflection of the USA’s federal system as much as anything else. It includes the ban on un-pasteurised milk and a 2 yeast ban on Foie Gras by Chicago. It talks of a ban on slaughtering horses for human consumption in a country which certifies the slaughtering of [...]

A Dairy to Process the Milk of More Than 80 000 cows a day!

There are some interesting podcasts on the BBC Food Programme about very small and this very large dairies. It appears 33 l/day is a good average, so long the cows are milked 3 times a day which links the billion litres a year to 83 000 cows!

 

photo by Tractorboy60 on Wikimedia [...]

A Museum of Fabric Art Brain Scans?

Yes it really is! In the typical American style its introduced as the “world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art”. I would have no hesitation in accepting that, after all who else would have set up such a museum?

from: Bill Harbaugh (click image for full story online)

The website shows 6 [...]

How to Keep the Gas in the Champagne

This stunning photograph illustrates a new technique used in this study of the pouring of champagne.

from: American Chemical Society (click image for full story online)

A dynamic-tracking technique using IR thermography was used to visualize the cloud of gaseous CO₂ released when pouring champagne.

The findings of the research, illustrated by the graph [...]

Consumers Design Chip/Crisp Flavour

I bought this interesting packet of potato chips (crisps to others) a few days ago as I was interested to see the face of a white housewife seemingly advertising chips on the supermarket shelf.

photo by Dave Harcourt (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)

 

However it turns out to be something quite [...]

iPizza in Australia

Just days after the iPad went on sale in Australia Pizza Capers were talking about how they planned to use the iPad as part of their ordering and service system!

 

from: Food Week (click image for full story online)

 

“The new iPads can be used as a Point-of-Sale terminal but staff can also [...]

570 Years Spent Playing Google Pac-Man Logo

Here’s a story that makes you remember how big the INTERNET is! One doesn’t have to say this time is a productivity cost, there were surely cases where it had a beneficial effect. But its still worth reflecting on just how much can be achieved by getting a small input from all those people [...]

Garlic Taste Without The Negatives? – Single Screenshot Series

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Alcohol Substitute? What are The UK’s Binge Drinkers Going To Do With This?

From Evernote: Alcohol substitute that avoids drunkenness and hangovers in development – Telegraph

Clipped from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6874884/Alcohol-substitute-that-avoids-drunkenness-and-hangovers-in-development.html

An alcohol substitute that mimics its pleasant buzz without leading to drunkenness and hangovers is being developed by scientists.

By Paul Rodgers and Richard Alleyne

Published: 8:00AM GMT 26 Dec 2009 Photo: PAUL GROVER

The synthetic alcohol, being [...]