Foodiggity’s Weekly Wrap-Up, 11/1 – 11/5

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Robots Now Have a Taste for Human Flesh… And We Taste Like Bacon

photo: via zazzle by toxiferous

We are so screwed. Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University in Japan, have developed a robot that can differentiate tastes. And before anyone naively sputters ‘Isn’t that amazing?’, one of the robots determined that human flesh tastes like bacon.

The robot uprising, which is inevitable, has just taken an unfortunate turn. Our deaths by the hand of the upstart robots, once thought to be quick and precise, will now be slow and savory. Nice going eggheads!

[via Squid Ink]

The McRib Double Down

The merging of the two most polarizing fast food items in history was inevitable. And although the McRib Double Down seen here only borrows the concept of the KFC Double Down, the idea for an actual mashup has been set forth.

Now for a limited time, the ultimate culinary monstrosity is only two stops in the mall food court away.

[link, via TIWYH]