FOOD BUZZ – Controversy erupts over a new technique for farming nonpoisonous fugu. Fugu is DANGEROUS and people die from eating it! But that might be the very reason it is prized as a special delicacy. Now farmed-raised, nonpoisonous Fugu is threatening to undermine Japan’s entire Fugu-Industrial Complex.

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1. Fugu Controversy Exposed by New York Times
2. Fugu Prepared By Master Chef (Video)
3. Fugu Pufferfish on Wikipedia
4. Homor Simpsons Eats Fugu (Video)
5. Tetrodotoxin, the Poison in Fugu, is 10,000 Times More Lethal Than Cyanide

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FOOD BUZZ – Girl Scout cookies now come in a 100-calorie pack for the diet-conscious. What is the world coming to? Now we have to worry about girl scouts quietly judging us as we opt for the samoas.

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1. They’re Tiny and Thin (Just Like You Should Be)
2. Sort of Like When Someone Orders a Diet Coke at a Bar…but Whatever
3. 10 Girl Scout Cookies, from Healthiest to Least Healthy
4. You Mean I Can Eat a Whole Box of These?
5. You Might Have to Special-Order Them
6. Girl Scouts Think Maybe You Should Go For Their Low-Cal Cookies
7. Which Girl Scout Cookies Are Vegan?

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