Yes, that’s a chocolate shot. It’s made by a company called Zotter. It’s kind of like an alcohol shot that you see in bars, except with less alcohol and more chocolate. Well… no alcohol. Just chocolate. But hey, it comes in a bunch of flavours, like coconut, almost, and mandarin. Each shot is 12 ml, which really isn’t a whole lot. But hey, it’s a shot of fair-trade certified organic ganache, which only stays fresh for 4 weeks due to its lack of preservatives. Which almost makes the €2,50 justifiable.
At least, that’s the headline most blogs are using regarding the Wahh Quantum Sensations, a new product from famed designer Philipe Stark and a scientist named David Edward. The truth might actually be a little more subtle. The Wahh is a lipstick-sized spray that contains a mixture of alcohol, water and aromas, and a single spritz allegedly gets you drunk for just a few seconds. Here’s what we think they mean: it’ll make you feel slightly lightheaded for a few seconds, as if you took a couple of sips of wine. But you won’t be drunk. Matter of fact, one of the selling points is that you can pass an alcotest right after. It’s even called Quantum Sensations because “one spray will release 0.075ml of alcohol, the minimum quantity for the particles to stimulate the brain and offer real sensations to your palate, thus delivering a “quantum of alcohol”, without risk of inebriation.” Yeah, so it’s a $20 gadget that releases the very minimum amount of alcohol for your to feel anything at all, for very little time. And… you get 21 presses per tube. If you thought bottle water was ridiculously overpriced, you now have a new benchmark.
There’s this bar round OhGizmo headquarters that sells a shot they call “Litchi Bomb.” It’s one part vodka, one part litchi liquor and one part bar mix. With a few drops of Tabasco sauce. And it’s just wonderful. So we have no trouble believing that the above Evil Hot Gummi Bears are nothing short of delicious. Infused with Habanero chile peppers, the 250g bag costs all of £5. And yes, the currency indicates that it’s unfortunately only available in the EU.
It’s a cherry pitter. It’s $8. It has a little face on it, which we suppose is kind of cute. Looks like it’s all excited to be pitting all them cherries. Someone has to, because we hate cherries.
This product is all kinds of awesome and weird rolled into one. Happy Kitchen Hamburger is a packet that contains different powders so that you may create your very own miniature cheeseburger meal, with fries and soda. The result ends up tasting like burger!
Your favorite fast food meal now comes in miniature candy form with the hamburger edition of the Happy Kitchen series! Mix the dough, cut the french fries, ‘bake’ the buns, shape the hamburgers, mold the cheese and even prepare your own ketchup. To wash it all down, you’ve got a cola to go along with your meal. From start to finish, you’ll have a smile on your face as your prepare you miniature treat!
To really get a grasp of just what this is, you have to watch the video. The best part is that it’s $4.50.
We have this Irish bar in town where they serve chicken wings covered in a sauce made from the Ghost Pepper, also known as the Bhut Jolokia. It’s the world’s hottest, so when you order these, you have to sign a waiver saying that you won’t, like, sue the place if something goes wrong. Really. So my friend tried them and within the first bite was running to the washroom in shock, where a waiter was already waiting with lots of milk. Once the pain died down a couple minutes later, he apologized for his reaction, at which point he was informed that he shouldn’t worry. Not only was this very normal, but many people actually vomit right at the table within the first bite. So, my friend’s reaction wasn’t that bad.
Keep this little anecdote in mind when you order Timmy’s Great Balls Of Fire. There’s Ghost Pepper powder inside. And they’re also coated with it. They are rated at over 1 million Scoville units. To put things in perspective, a Tabasco pepper (used in the sauce of the same name) rates around 30,000 to 50,000 Scoville units. And police grade perpperspray starts around 2 million, so these candies are getting close.
Sure to please any geek worth his salt, these Space Invaders chocolates have had a lot of effort put into their manufacture. There’s an entire section dedicated to this (which is in the links below, but impossible to link to directly, so just scroll down a little), but you should know that there’s 3D CAD, a CNC machine and thing called a “granite melangeur” involved. The Costa Rican beans are hand sorted and the finished product is packed in a limited edition, laser engraved gift box, along with a postcard, a sticker and a mini poster. All this hard work obviously translates into quite a bit for what you’ll essentially just melt in your mouth: $25.
There’s talk that the recipe and cad file will be released at some point so you can try your hand at tempering (read: not such an easy process) your own Space Invaders chocolates.
Fatty, salty and unbelievably delicious, McNuggets remain incomplete; what they have in flavor, they lack in being made out of gold. You can get one step closer to fixing that flaw with these cans of sprayable, edible food coloring. They’re called Food Finish and are allegedly safe and completely tasteless. So for € 24,80 (or about $35USD as of this writing) you can have that chrome plated steak you’ve always wanted, or those… blue french fries. Heck, even those red pancakes are within grasp.
It turns out I can scratch ‘Invent a snack that will be the end of mankind’ off my bucket list. Because a company called Rowan Lane has beaten me to it. As a product name, Cherkees doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue like, say, Ruffles or Doritos. But it makes up for that marketing shortcoming by being possibly one of the most amazing snacks man has ever created. Regular beef jerky isn’t the easiest thing to snack on outside of a survival situation. And beef jerky flavored chips never taste as authentic as the real thing. So in a move that would probably baffle even Einstein, they pushed mother nature aside, threw caution to the wind, and combined the two together.
Each bag of Cherkees contains over a quarter pound of lean beef combined with traditional potato chips. And since they’re not fried, they have about 1/3 as much fat as your typical bag of chips. With loads more protein. At the moment they come in two flavors—Cracked Pepper and Hot Pepper—with Teriyaki and Smokehouse being available sometime in the future. And even though they’re a bit more expensive than a traditional bag of chips—$4.99 for 2.8 oz. and $9.99 for 5.8 oz.— they’re still currently sold out due to the demand.
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