When faced with cute Japanese candy, my brain tends to switch to "automatic Japanese candy response mode" by taking whatever candy is in front of me and placing it into my shopping basket. I have no choice but to buy what goes into my basket. No choice. Even if it's something as ridiculous as Takoyaki-ya San, a gummy candy meant to resemble octopus-filled dough balls. I saw it while shopping at Mitsuwa in Edgewater, New Jersey, where I only had to look at the package for two seconds before deciding, "This probably isn't worth my money, but I'm going to buy it anyway." I wasn't enticed by the takoyaki resemblance though—the best part was that you had to make...
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Milky nougat-like White Rabbit candies have been found to contain melamine, adding to the string of melamine-tainted dairy products coming from China. Melamine is an industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones and kidney failure, and has already sickened tens of thousands of infants in China. [via Gothamist]...
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Would a dark pink, rod-shaped piece of gum intrigue you much? Probably not. But market it as Franks Bubble Gum and you have a winner! Same probably goes for flat, disc shaped gum—Flat Gum Patties wouldn't make for an enticing name, but Bologna Bubble Gum? Yeah!...
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