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To help promote their new Coffee-Mate Natural Bliss, Nestlé outfitted a NYC coffee shop with their product and a bunch of naked people.
With baristas and patrons wearing little more than smiles and body paint — Nestlé was promoting the ‘naked’ ingredient list of their creamer, while endorsing full-frontal first thing in the morning.
The Natural Bliss Café was a one-day pop-up back in April, and you can see some results of the experiment here…
[via AdWeek]
Vegetarians… You probably knew that if you held out long enough, you’d eventually be able to enjoy bacon like normal people. Well, veggies… Your time wondering what all the fuss is about, may finally be over with Bacon Seaweed.
Originally bred to be a protein-rich food source for sea snails, researchers at Oregon State University may have cracked the code on guilt-free bacon. After 15 years of research on this dulse form of seaweed, they discovered that, when fried, it tastes just like bacon.
Snail food or not, SLTs and seaweed veggie burgers are merely a gateway to bacon-related eating. Congrats.
[via Mashable]
After NASA recently spotted a heart-shaped mass on Pluto, it appears that the dwarf planet just wants to be loved.
Lou Lou Ps Delights, always up for some fun with confectionaries, created the Pluto Macaron.
Complete with a painted-on heart, the celestial orb looks up at you with loving eyes. This is either to implore NASA to return it to full-planet status, or to get you not to eat it.
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Stripping fruits of their natural color, artist Dewey Saunders and photographer Andre Rucker created Produce Illusion.
Saunders and Rucker’s choice to make the produce desaturated and monochromatic adds an interesting visual element — while the fruits remain easily recognizable by shape and texture.
They also toy with gravity, stacking these re-colored fruits into beautiful sculptures.
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Nick Offerman, like most, has a dream of growing his own pizza slices, thwarting whole pies and ridiculous delivery charges. Seen in this Funny or Die video, Farmer Nick’s philosophy of, “If it’s on a plant, it’s good for you,” is encouraging healthy eating with “acres of pizza, kissed by the sun.”
Offerman was even nice enough to harvest some taquitos, fish sticks and sloppy joes — for those who are sick of stupid fruit. I’m just glad that this is all very real, as the pizza seeds that I planted as a kid, have yet to show any progress. Thanks, Farmer Nick.
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