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Adidas Sneakers Designed By Female Artists For Each of The 50 U.S. States

Food and footwear, together again. This time, Adidas and Refinery 29 brought the two together, while celebrating women and the 50 U.S. States.

The BOOST the Nation campaign is an art series for women, by women. Female artists were commissioned to design an Adidas UltraBOOST X that captures the essence of a U.S. State. Although all 50 don’t use food as inspiration, many of them celebrate the states’s rich culinary history, with food as the uniting factor.

All 50 are up for auction here. Proceeds will go to support Women Win — the global leader in gender equality though sport.

South Carolina Shrimp and Grits, by Lizzie Darden

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Budweiser Is Now Called ‘America’… Please Plan Accordingly.

Nothing says, ‘America’ quite like a mass-produced, watered-down lager. Anheuser-Busch, although now owned by Belgians, knows this, and will temporarily rebrand Budweiser to be called “America.”

Apparently, this is a marketing stunt for what could be the most drink-inducing season in American history — the summer leading up to this year’s Presidential election. Bottles and cans of Budweiser were only slightly modified for the name-change — making them easily-recognizable for brand-faithful Bud-drinkers.

So, here’s to what could be the most American summer to ever America. Thanks, Belgium!

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The Foodnited States Of America, A Pun-Fueled Series of US States Made From Food

Foodnited States T-shirts are now available here. The Foodnited States of America Poster, including all 50 States, is now available here.

In addition to being the creator of Foodiggity.com, I’m also the father of an eight-year-old. And, when most of the material covered on your site could best be described as ‘juvenile food-related nonsense,’ a curious youngster is gonna wanna get involved.

It began innocently enough with, “Dad… What if you made States, but like, they were made of food, like?” My response was something along the lines of, “That’s been done to death already, son… Go to bed.” Then, the heir to the Foodiggity empire added, “But what if they like had funny names like New Pork or New Jerky, like?” Now, we were on to something.

So, with an idea set forth by an eight year-old, and contributions from Dad and others, we give you The Foodnited States of America.

The project is based over at Instagram, hashtag #foodnitedstates. All fifty States are now complete, check them out over at Instagram or at Foodiggity’s Facebook page here. F-S-A!! F-S-A!!

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Meat Rushmore, Mount Rushmore Recreated With 1,600 Pounds of Beef Jerky

Nothing says “Murica” quite like our national landmarks and dehydrated beef. So, to show some patriotism and to celebrate National Jerky Day, Jack Link’s created Meat Rushmore.

The famous mountainside depicting four of the United States’ most beloved Presidents, was recreated using 1,600 pounds of beef jerky.

The 13-foot tall, 17-foot wide meat sculpture was on display in New York City yesterday for Jerky Day, where passersby were encouraged to take a “selfie” with the sculpture. Isn’t that technically a “jerkie”?

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The United Steaks of America, An Interactive Map of Each US States’ Official Meat

It’s no secret that ‘Merica loves its meat. So… Why do only four States in the Union — Louisiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Texas — claim an animal-based food item as their official State fare?

L.V. Anderson over at Slate looks to fix this atrocious oversight, with The United Steaks of America. The interactive map shows an awesome and complete disregard for “official” State foods — placing in its stead, an unofficial meat for each.

Check it out, and see if they got your States’ meat-of-choice correct. Foodiggity, based in New Jersey, would argue that Taylor Ham should be our State meat. South Jerseyans can then argue that it should be “Pork Roll.” Nonetheless… Check out the fully-operational map here.

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