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I am SO funny, as you will soon see... I cleverly took a topic and manipulated it in to an amusing yet to the point heading for this article! The fact being that Arigatou Co Ltd. have launched a range of peanut business cards, that you can eat! See what I did? nuts... peanuts... you're crazy... kind of thing! Ill give you a couple of minutes to contain yourself and wipe the tears of laughter out of your eyes before I continue...

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and we're back.

"TaberuMe" (or Eat Me) peanuts are the latest of a range of foods which Arigatou Co print names on using their high grade CO2 laser engraver, which can print clear readable text on non-flat surfaces as small as a grain of rice!



Edu at PinkTentacle also made a valid attempt at humour in finishing off his article... mere peanuts, classic! but I think you'll agree my headline has him beat

Regardless, a set of 150 Taberu Me cards costs 5,800 yen (around $50), which is mere peanuts considering the lasting impression you will make on your new counterparts.

Another funny one from Mr. Tsumeyama (Tokoyama?) at Gizmodo, whos name translates to "Eternal mountain of great physical strength", quite possibly the best name ive ever heard...

ちなみに、商品名の「タベルメ」は「Taberu Me」＝「私を食べる」から来ているようです。初対面で「さあ！ 俺を食え」って…。（常山剛）

By the way, "taberume" is "eat me" in English, so imagine your first meeting with a new client... "Ok, lets kick things off, eat me!"

The Arigatou Co website describes the product as 食べれる名刺, "meishi you can eat", and they have stuck to Japanese tradition of being really creative with product names and cut off half of "eat" and "business card" to make タベルメ. I personally think "businuts" is a better name! Damn, gotta stop myself, just too funny! (think you can do better? challenge me in the comments!)

Amazing the products coming out these days... I mean whats next?
Chocolate beer? Chocolate sushi? Edible squid flavoured post cards?!

Heading to Wakayama any time soon? If so, dont forget to send me a squid flavoured postcard from the deepest underwater mailbox on record... pfft, as if you'd forget!

The mailbox is located 10m beneath Susami Bay with mail being sent by means of special waterproof plastic postcards. The mailbox is officially part of the Susami post office, taking 200 peices of mail a day in busy times, and it even has a special key!

... and this guy is offering an Amazon gift certificate worth 10 times the amount paid on postage for sending him a postcard (squid flavour optional) from the underwater yuubinkyoku. No mention of the scuba expenses or risk of being eaten by giant octopi however...

Aya Kato was born only 5 days before me, but she seems to have achieved a great deal more in the art world.

From ipod covers...



to chocolate...



to a current outdoor art exhibition in Barcelona.



Her website's pretty good too. ayakato.net

Since oil and water don't mix, these fish can live 5 to 10 years under a deep fryer! The video apparently describes a new kind of oil that doesn't explode when combined with water. Food in a fryer usually gives off little drops of water that splatter everywhere. This new kind of oil limits splatter and allows the water to flow into a lower basin...



(via Consumerist)

Homaru Cantu and chefs from Chicago's weird-science restaurant, Moto, faced off against iron chef Morimoto in January. The challenge ingredient was beetroot, and Moto's chefs stole the show with this postmodern beet maki surrounded by edible paper printed with maki-zushi ink.



Another favorite was a frozen sphere of beet -- "made by injecting a balloon with liquified beet, freezing it with the liquid nitrogen, and burning the balloon off with a baby blowtorch--over yogurt with a spike of yuzu." Despite the iron chef's more traditional preparations, and one future-forward liquid nitrogen encrusted beetroot ice cream, Moto won!



First Science: "Perhaps Cantu's greatest innovation at Moto is a modified Canon i560 inkjet printer (which he calls the "food replicator" in homage to Star Trek) that prints flavoured images onto edible paper. The print cartridges are filled with food-based "inks", including juiced carrots, tomatoes and purple potatoes, and the paper tray contains sheets of soybean and potato starch. The printouts are flavoured by dipping them in a powder of dehydrated soy sauce, squash, sugar, vegetables or sour cream, and then they are frozen, baked or fried."


Cantu is now working with superconductors and handheld particle guns to create a system for levitating food in front of customers.

More details in the Chicago Reader article.

Self-Explanatory. Learn the "true" tradition of Japanese Sushi.

Enjoy!

Junko Terashima makes funny bento lunches for her kids.



Justin puts them together on his blog.



...and adds poems.

Sankt Gallen Brewery in Kanagawa has produced a limited supply of "Imperial Choclate Stout" for Valentines Day. The beer contains 8.9 percent alcohol and costs 630 yen per bottle. Last year the entire stock of 6,000 bottles sold out in four days. Thankfully, more was produced this year, and now you can consider washing it down with some of Hokkaido's exciting new concept beer made with milk, Bilk.

(Story at Mainichi Daily News.)

It appears as though Asahi is at it again. This time they are milking the Brandy lovers for all they are worth by marketing 60-70 bottles of Louis XIII Black Pearl French brandy, Remy Cointreau Group's new high end brandy. The price tag: a measly 1 million yen. Thats right, a TEN-THOUSAND (US) DOLLAR bottle of brandy.

The 700-milliliter bottle is designed by Baccarat, a French crystal vessel maker, and the number of bottles produced will be limited to 786 (twice the number of living people liable to waste such an insane amount of cash on a bottle of booze). As for me, I'll stick with bathtub gin and Thunderbird.

view article at Japan">http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20070206a2.html">Japan Times.

Thats right little piggies, apparently, the recent Natto Diet Revolution, (or NDR as I like to call it-- nearly as popular as DDR) has been based in lies, LIES I tell you! According to my secret sources (ahem* Japan Times ahem*), one of the co-conspiritors in Jan. 7th and 28th's "Hakkutsu! Aruaru Daijiten II" TV program, which led to an immediate shortage of Natto in supermarkets across Japan, has admitted to fabricating the details of the program, which claimed Natto helps people stay thin. Personally I don't see the point of being skinny if no one can stand to be in the same room as you because of your stench. I mean I've got some rank smelling feet, but at least I can put socks on to cover that up!

So you can stop shoveling that putrid foot goo into your pie hole, and if you really want to lose some weight, TAKE A WALK!

view article here: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070205a6.html