13 Extreme Foods for Daredevil Eaters
Russian advertising and design firm Firma created the soluble Champagne tablet concept earlier this year, similar to Alka-Seltzer tablets. Called Veuve Clicquot Shhh-ampagne, it caused an uproar in France after it turned out that the Champagne brand hadn’t given permission to use its name.
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You may need to be part of the 1 percent to enjoy this $120 22-ounce pilsner beer, which is infused with truffles from Australia, but the concept of Moody Tongue, which was started from a Chicago-based brew master, is certainly unconventional.
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Someone has finally found a way to savor the taste of chocolate chip cookies without the calories. This chocolate chip cookies flavored sparkling water, which was spotted at a Texas supermarket chain, has no calories and no sodium.
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Boston Pizza, a Canadian pizza chain restaurants with U.S. locations, launched a contest earlier this year to find what it called the biggest pizza game changer. Among the different entries that included burgers wrapped in a pizza and chipotle and bacon pizza tacos, this pizza cake won the most votes. The chain is now developing it.
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Simply send your selfie to Burnt Impressions, a small Vermont toaster company, and a couple of weeks later, you’ll receive your customized toaster ready to prep your toasted selfies for a very special breakfast. The toaster costs $75, or for an additional $25, you can have two faces on separate toasts with the same toaster.
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Everything seems to be 3D printed these days and there’s no reason why food, whether candies or chocolate, couldn’t be created that way too. Even the U.S. Army has research teams working on developing 3D food printers, which could instantly generate food rations at much lower costs anywhere in the world
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A Spanish physicist recently created this ice cream that changes color when licked (it reacts to temperature changes and acids found in the human mouth). The ice cream goes from blue to pink and purple. (Beware if it changes to Raw Umber.) Manuel Linares, the scientist, has already opened a shop selling this new kind of ice cream in his hometown of Blanes, which is an hour north of Barcelona.
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Dominique Ansel, the creator of the cronut, a hybrid between a croissant and donut and one of the food fads of the past year, is at it again. This time, he teamed up with designer Lisa Perry to come up with his new invention, an Andy Warhol-inspired ice-cream sundae in a can. Very exclusive, the treat was only available for a day from a truck parked in the Hamptons for $15 a can.
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Bompas & Parr, a U.K. food design firm, created this glow-in-the-dark Cornetto last year for a London film premiere of the movie The End of the World, unbeknown to the audience, which had a lot of fun with the fluorescent yellow dessert.
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For those who have a sweet tooth and want to get their protein at the same time, try these lollypops that have real crunchy insects embedded inside them. For less than $2 a lollypop, you can chose between ants, a scorpion, a cricket or a worm. You can order the candies online or visit the HotLix retail store in Pismo Beach, Calif.
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With Jelly Belly BeanBoozled, you get a collection of classic flavor jelly beans mixed with gross ones such as rotten eggs or canned dog food. The catch? You don’t know which one is which. The black licorice bean looks exactly like the skunk spray bean, while the green juice pear bean looks like the booger bean. So fun, they made a game out of it.
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Despite increasing pork prices due to a deadly swine virus, America's love for bacon isn't going anywhere. Bacon has been paired with chocolate, sushi rolls, and even vodka. The makers of Bakon Vodka tested recipes for more than two years before landing this bacon-infused vodka, which the company claims is the only vodka you'll ever want to use in a Bloody Mary.
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At Choco Chicken in Los Angeles, the chicken is lightly coated with a special cooking chocolate made from bittersweet cocoa and then deep fried. If there's not enough chocolate to your taste, you can also dip it in chocolate ketchup and pair it with white chocolate mashed potatoes.
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