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Foodiggity’s Semi-Weekly Wrap-Up

Foodiggity wraps up the week (or, so)…

26 years in the making… Stay Puft Marshmallows Now Exist
Rule the Bake Sale… Ninjabread Men
Nerd worlds collide… Superhero Cupcakes
Cow tipping just became easier… Drunk Cows Make Better Meat
Eat healthy, to the extreme… Baby Carrots Packaged as Junk Food
It is your destiny… Eat This Yoda Cake You Will
Tubed meat and psychedelics… This is Your Hot Dog on Drugs
Mickey D’s just got brunchier… The McDonald’s Mc10:35
Pot Luck… Reefer. It’s What’s For Dinner
Channel your inner 8-year-old… Just the Marshmallows

Just the Marshmallows

Have you ever wondered why cereals bother to include oat clusters? At one time or another we have all stripped a cereal of its only semblance of nutrition, leaving just the pastel teeth-rotting marshmallows for breakfast.

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Baby Carrots Packaged as Junk Food

baby-carrots-packaging — Artist rendering: Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Baby Carrots will be receiving a packaging facelift to encourage healthier eating, and to make the stubby orange snack as extreme and in-your-face as possible.

Agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky has designed the new campaign to mimic popular junk foods — thereby attempting to seduce the feebleminded with horrible fonts and garish colors.

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Battle of the Cheetos

Everyone’s favorite fluorescent orange snack, Cheetos, has started a veritable online snack war. It is Cheeto against Cheeto and users are being asked to choose sides — puffs or crunchy.

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37 Reasons to Love a Twinkie

Has there ever been a more curious and fascinating food item than the Twinkie? Does it really have an infinite shelf life? How do they get the cream filling in there? And, first and foremost, what exactly is in this yellowish spongy treat? Well, we now have our answer in disturbing photographic form.

A new book, titled 37 or so Ingredients, supplies visuals of our Twinkie contents for those who can’t bring themselves to read the food label. Photographer Dwight Eschliman takes his obsession with processed foods and individually displays the Twinkie’s polysyllabic chemical compounds—reinforcing the Twinkie’s status as a true wonder of science by displaying them in petri dishes.

For more information or to order a copy of the book, email twinkiebook[at]eschlimanphoto[dot]com.

[via GOOD]