FOOD BUZZ – Strange tales from the U.K. of people surviving while eating only one thing for years. Keith Sorrell claims to have eaten just Mars Bars for 17 years; Faye Campbell says she’s subsisted mostly on French fries (aka chips) for the last decade. Monofoodism: the new monochromatism.

The Best Links:

1. Likes Mars Bars: “Now I can easily polish off 12 a day, more at weekends.”
2. The 15-year-old Who Actually Gets Sick if She Doesn’t Eat French Fries

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FOOD BUZZ – A hot dog wrapped in ground beef then deep-fried, topped with chili, cheese, grilled onions, and served in a hoagie roll. It was very difficult trying to find an appetizing photo of something that sounds so insanely delicious. You know it’s summer when you’re stuffing a giant hamdog in your face!

The Best Links:

1. Luther Burger and Hamdog Pictures!!!!!
2. I Ate at the Guy Who Invented the Hamdog’s Bar!
3. How to Make a Hamdog: Step by Step With Photos
4. A Sports Game Treat with No Sports Affiliation
5. “Ketchup With Your Cardiac Arrest?”
6. Anatomy of a Hamdog (This One Has Eggs in It)

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FOOD BUZZ – A Georgia senator named Doug Stoner wants to ban the sale of marijuana-flavored candy. It’s hard to say we’re going to miss a product that we never even knew existed. But now that we know it does, where can we get some??

The Best Links:

1. Adventures in Irony: The Guy Who Wants to Ban Candy Is Named Doug Stoner??
2. Stoner Helps Ban Sale Of Weed Candy
3. “Every Lick Tastes Like a Hit!”
4. Hemp Oil Not Illegal, Imparts Pot Taste without the High Effect
5. This Could Lead to the Ban of More Hemp Products
6. “There’s actually a marijuana-flavored candy? Seriously?”

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FOOD BUZZ – Michelin-starred techno-chef Heston Blumenthal OBE wins an award for splicing together grapes and cocoa beans to create chocolate wine. A way to damage your liver and get diabetes at the same time! Get the recipe here.

The Best Links:

1. Blumenthal’s Recipe: How to Make Chocolate Wine
2. These Foodie Contests Are Always Such a Masturbatory Circle Jerk
3. Chocolate Orange Wine Already Exists?
4. Experimenting With Existing Recipes
5. Blumenthal Lauded for Chocolate Wine
6. My Bottle of Chocolate Orange Wine

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FOOD BUZZ – British ice cream truck now serves a cone stuffed with mashed potatoes, peas, and sausage alongside its regular ice cream offerings. This is pretty much the ultimate stoner food.

The Best Links:

1. Metro.co.uk Reviews the Mash Cone, Thinks It Could Be Better
2. I Gagged Just from Looking at the Photo
3. The Opposite of Drooling: Think About Eating One on a Hot Summer’s Day
4. “World’s Most Disgusting Ice Cream”
5. Aunt Bessie Takes Offense to Metro Article, Personally Delivers Mash Cones to Offices

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FOOD BUZZ – How do Japanese women manage to look so good? Easy! By drinking pig placenta! As part of the FOSHU movement (Food For Specific Health Use), drinking Placenta 10000 Jelly Drink is said to rejuvenate one’s energy and approve appearance. Fair enough, but if we’re going to drink pig, it had better get us tipsy, too.

The Best Links:

1. Piggy Jelly Drink: It’s Big in Japan
2. FOSHU for Beauty? FO SHO!
3. Tastes Like…Peach…
4. “Is This Pig Placenta? Tastes Like Dolphin…”
5. Buy It! (If You Can Read Japanese)
6. Is Eating FOSHU Worth The Price?

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FOOD BUZZ – An eatery in China that specializes in preparing penis and testicles. The Guo-li-zhuang restaurant in Beijing serves yak, buffalo, dog, goat and deer penis, among other specialties. Yum! By which we mean: We wish we could un-know this.

The Best Links:

1. The BBC Goes to the Penis Restaurant: “Is yak a particularly fine penis?”
2. A Wide Variety of Penises: “We try the water-buffalo penis first, in thin shavings”
3. People Eat Animal Penises. Get Over It
4. Mmm, Dog Penis With Plum Garnish!
5. Apparently, Women Shouldn’t Eat Testicles
6. Funny/Gross Video of a Correspondent from Current TV (Al Gore’s Channel) Eating at the Restaurant
7. Yes, This is an Actual Story

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FOOD BUZZ – It’s St. Patrick’s Day, but why limit yourself to green beer? There’s always something simultaneously alluring and disgusting about foods that people dye green for St. Patty’s Day. Please don’t pinch us.

The Best Links:

1. Yes, Green Eggs and Ham
2. McDonald’s Has Mint Shamrock Shakes and Sundaes (1980 Ad)
3. How to Make Green Beer
4. Top 5 Worst Green Foods That Make You Go Puke
5. Suggestions on Green Food?

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FOOD BUZZ – Lollipops now come in intriguing flavors like marijuana, absinthe, and maple bacon. For those of you without a sweet tooth, there’s this new trend of salty candy. We always kind of favored those popcorn-flavored jelly beans.

The Best Links:

1. Maple Bacon Lollipop
2. Pretzel Lollipops - Pretzels On a Stick!
3. Pickle In A Tube - Featured on BuzzFeed
4. Tequila Lollipoop with Worm
5. Review: Jolly Rancher Hot & Spicy Lollipops
6. Marijuana Flavored Lollipops - Made with Hemp so They’re Legal!
7. Meat Lollipop Kind of Like a Savory Candy Apple
8. Absinthe Lollipops
9. Peter Piper Picked A PickleSickle?

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FOOD BUZZ – Two great tastes that go great together. The technical definition of a donut muffin is somewhat tricky: There’s no frying involved, but usually plenty of butter and sugar. They exist in that grey “third realm” of the baked good world.

The Best Links:

1. Doughnut Muffins: Two Great Breakfast Foods in One
2. Are Muffin Donuts Logically Impossible?
3. But They’re Good For You (So They Can’t Really Be Donuts!)
4. Not a Bad Subsitute When You’re in a Donut Mood
5. It’s the Lazy Man’s Donut
6. “The sweet treats are neither muffin nor donut, but something in between”

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