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If you got a lot of Halloween loot you’ll be happy to know that nobody can stop you from eating as much as you want today: it’s National Candy Day! Somebody was thinking synergistically when they scheduled these two days so near each other. We’re going to take this opportunity to think about candy in [...]

As kids, obviously, we dreamt of living in a house made of candy. When we tested the idea out with a scale model, though, things like rain and snow proved to be rather problematic. We’re not sure how some of the dwellings in Now That’s Nifty’s listicle of 10 Houses Made from Odd Materials would [...]

We’ve been a little behind the ball lately with our advertising beat, so today is especially packed with funny commercials. Because after all, humor is the best medicine, and medicine has a tendency to be very addictive, which in turn explains how we got hooked on humorous commercials in the first place. The advertising overlords [...]

An interesting New York Times piece yesterday explained that one of the few sectors whose numbers are rising as the recession deepens is the candy industry. The logic behind this trend is fairly self-explanatory: in bitter times, people want to eat sweet (and cheap) things. We’d like to see the candy industry seize upon this [...]

The other day I was at the local deli trying to pick out an afternoon stack, and it seriously took me five minutes to choose. It was like being a teenager at the neighboorhood video store all over again. One minute I wanted Obama Rolls, but then the Rodman Rods caught my eye and idea [...]

Informally, this week is Art Fair Week in New York, with a half-dozen large-scale festivals providing showrooms for galleries from all over the world to display their artists’ work. One of the newer fairs in this year’s mix is Fountain New York, which features Marcel Duchamp’s iconic urinal scultpure as its logo. Contemplating their snazzy [...]

Though it took us a long time to understand that citrus fruits are meant to be peeled – those were some dark years of intense Vitamin C deficiency – we’ve since found ourselves surrounded by discarded peels after many a clementine binge. What to do with all those pretty peels?
We tried breeding new hybrid species [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]

The authors of a study in the Journal of Law and Economics finally found that TV snack ads make kids want to eat more snacks than they should, thereby proving once again the effectiveness of late capitalism. Though a complete ban of candy commercials is unlikely, hopes are that fewer ads targeting children would significantly [...]