So in the fearless tradition of FreakyTrigger food scientists the years over (Food Science Day III coming soon), it was not enough to just boggle at the existence of Skinny Water from poor billboard ads. No, i had to try some and report back.
So I t[…]

Sorry, I don’t mean to turn this into the wacky world of inventions but these things keep nagging me from the edge of my consciousness. I’ll give you more on “The Scandal Of Skinny Water” later, but first let us look at the fo[…]

An interactive map of Springfield. IT MEANS NOTHING, but is fun.[…]

Someone asks about Coca-Cola Orange
I dimly remember Ki-Ora doing an Orange and Cola flavour in my youth.
Try to confirm such via Wikipedia. Fail.
Do however discover lyrics to Ki-Ora song, and that it was based on a track by Swedish band Caramba.
Id[…]

Our future monarch’s Duchy Originals brand has done very well out of the organic food boom – in fact you have to (perhaps grudgingly) admit that the Prince showed a bit of entrepreneurial vision on this one, since his Highgrove Farm oatca[…]

Wine is too strong. Not all wine, but the New World trend of the last ten years has found the alcohol volume going up from an average of 11% to somewhere closer to 13%. Now I like a bang for my buck, but being in mind exactly how drunk I want to get […]

The above is the title of a rather lovely new show at the British Museum (open until October 21st), exhibiting I believe a hundred works from the last fifty years or so in various crafts categories. There are lots of spectacularlt beautiful pieces, p[…]

Uffie – Brand New Car
Supermayer – The Art Of Letting Go
Infernal – Vienna
Aly & AJ – Like Whoa
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Roisin Murphy – Modern Timing
Sham 69 – Hurry Up Harry
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Every now and then reading the marketing press you see a story and you think, surely the wider media has picked up on this. And apparently it hasn’t. In this case the story that caught my eye was: DOVE TO SHOWCASE EATING DISORDERS IN AD CAMPAIG[…]

Hooray, its beer festival time again. And while the Germans sit in big tents drinking litres of the same beer, we all go to Earls Court to sup sup sup lots of different ales. This years champion beer is a Mild (its mildness being a point of interest […]