DailyDirt: Food That's Not Quite For Eating...

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Fri, Sep 2nd 2011 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Parents everywhere are usually scolding their kids for playing with their food, but maybe kids are right to look at food as building materials and decorating items. Here are just a few unconventional uses for edible goods.

SPAM Lip Glaze probably doesn't have the same shelf life as regular SPAM. But it's way more portable and would probably get by TSA security checkpoints. [url]
Sun-dried squid bodies make nice little sake bottles that are traditionally called Ika Tokkuri. Who needs to worry about BPA-free or Phthalate-free plastics when you can just eat your drinking vessels? [url]
Condiment wallpaper is a cheap (but perhaps not very long-lasting) way to decorate a room. And it looks better than filling nail holes in drywall with toothpaste... [url]
To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

Filed Under: condiment, food, ika tokkuri, sake, spam, squid

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Pixelation, 2 Sep 2011 @ 6:13pm

"Condiment wallpaper is a cheap (but perhaps not very long-lasting) way to decorate a room. "

I had a friend nail a Twinkie to the wall of his bedroom and leave it to show how much preservative was in it.

I never did like Twinkies anyway.
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- Anonymous Coward, 3 Sep 2011 @ 8:35pm
  
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  Twinkies just dry out so that mold doesn't grow on them too well. But if you put them in a humid room, twinkies would spoil as fast as any other food.
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  - Michael Ho (profile), 3 Sep 2011 @ 9:51pm
    
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    http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/3039
    
    I think someone must have done the "moist Twinkies actually do mold" experiment.. I assume Twinkies have no extra special preservatives that allow them to escape mold growth under any conditions.
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Rekrul, 2 Sep 2011 @ 11:37pm

Condiment wallpaper is a cheap (but perhaps not very long-lasting) way to decorate a room. And it looks better than filling nail holes in drywall with toothpaste...

But is it available with snozzberries?
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Jimr (profile), 6 Sep 2011 @ 6:54am

I am not a fear factor contestant
Have you ever smelled a Sun-dried squid body?

Just reading dried squid body brings back some really bad smell memories from time over seas... it was a local acquired taste and they sold it from carts. I think their favorite spot was under my window on extremely hot days.

I doubt that I could put my lips to something that smells like decaying fish and drink the putrid contents.
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