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SNACK TIME: Bacon cinnamon rolls at your house, MillerCoors caves over Sparks, get bibbed with the best at Oceanaire, latke life, caviar smugglers behind bars while needy feast on fish eggs
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SNACK TIME: Bacon cinnamon rolls at your house, MillerCoors caves over Sparks, get bibbed with the best at Oceanaire, latke life, caviar smugglers behind bars while needy feast on fish eggs
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Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
- Mr. B of the Bacon Today blog shocks the (theoretical) pants off the Pillsbury Doughboy with his bacon cinnamon rolls. Once the tube of sugary goodness was cracked, Mr. B was delighted to discover that the flat cinnamon roll strip is exactly the dimensions of a strip of bacon. O happy harmony! Meal Ticket recommends stocking a few tubes of the cinnamon roll dough in anticipation of your Jan. 1 hangover.
- MillerCoors has caved to pressure to reformulate its Sparks alcoholic energy drink, rants Lew Bryson of Seen Through a Glass. The New Drys, well-funded and highly motivated anti-alcohol groups, leaned on state attorney generals enough that that they have issued a report warning of the danger of alcoholic energy drinks to children. (I wondered why the Sparks-swilling toddlers on in my neighborhood looked so depressed.) MillerCoors will remove the caffeine, taurine, guarana and ginseng from Sparks, effectively neutering both it and their market share.
- Lauren and hubby P of I'll Eat You blog burn up a hefty gift card at formal gateway to the sea, Oceanaire. Pyramids of crushed ice are jammed with recently alive shellfish, bibs are alligator-clipped to protect diner's pecs and black napkins appear for those wearing a dark $2000 suit. Sounds fancy and lint-free, turns out fancy and flaming Baked Alaska. Good thing for gift cards!
- Smitten Kitchen whips up a batch of gorgeous latkes with foolproof instructions for potato pancake rookies. A lightly oiled cast iron skillet is the platform from which dozens of the creme fraiche- and caviar-topped little thrillers spring. Not very peasanty or kosher, but whateva, darling, it's the holidays.
- The MenuPages blog rehashes a BBC news story about two smugglers caught in Italy with eggs on their face, in the form of $550,000 worth of stolen beluga caviar. Though worth half a mil, the booty is only 88 pounds of the deluxe fish spawn. Now that the feds have their hands on the stuff, they're going to feed it to the needy for Christmas. Crazy Italians. Why not sell it at auction and use the proceeds to buy something a bit more substantial?
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