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Video game food… It helps us rack up points and extends our playing time. But the thing about those digital foodstuffs — since there’s no video game FDA to speak of — we have no idea what we’re putting into our little pixelated bodies.
Complex Gaming has put together a handy guide — The Nutritional Guide To Popular Food In Video Games. From power pellets to magical mushrooms, we can finally get some nutritional peace of mind, while we consume pork rinds and energy drinks from our gaming chairs.
The Atari 2600 Cake was created by New Jersey-based Pink Cake Box for a fortieth birthday party. The red velvet cake was complete with game console, two joysticks, and Pac-Man and Vanguard cassettes.
And, if you’re too young to know what a joystick is, then I won’t bother explaining how kids were once entertained by video games that required the use of one button. Or, how totally awesome Pitfall was. Awesome cake though.
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At the time of this writing, there are few food items trendier than the macaron, and no mobile app more addictive than Angry Birds. Merge the two, and we could be looking at the trendiest and most addictive food item in recorded history. Especially if you’re a hipster macaron-eater with an iPhone.
The Angry Birds Macarons are brought to us by Fairy Cookies. They are mint chocolate, and the recipe can be found here.
[via Neatorama]
Whether you’re a first-person-shooting aficionado, role-player, or spend hours in your parent’s basement with a variety of games — Gamer Food is here to help get you through the hard parts.
Power up with three different varieties — Seeds of Victory sunflower seeds, Nuts of Destruction ancho chili and lime peanuts, and Cashews of Chaos honey roasted cashews. Game on!
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Angry Birds — the video game keeping smartphone users that much more antisocial — has become a global phenomenon. The game which pits bird against pig, has accounted for over 1.2 billion hours of usage in the U.S. alone. Not to mention additional merchandise, including the sale of over three million plush toys and as many as 30 million T-shirts.
So it only makes sense that the disgruntled little birds would get their own cookbook. The upcoming cookbook will be targeted at families and include mostly egg-based recipes… and we’re guessing some pork. The book also encourages the addition of crack in all recipes to make them as addictive as the game.*
[via Mashable]
*may or may not be true