{"id":20689,"date":"2016-10-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=20689"},"modified":"2021-01-07T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T21:41:17","slug":"weekend-reading-1082016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/08\/weekend-reading-1082016\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEKEND READING – 10\/8\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. Enjoy.<\/i><\/p>\n

Via The A.V. Club: Here\u2019s how ice cream sandwiches are made<\/em><\/p>\n

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The clip, aptly titled \u201cIce Cream Sandwiches,\u201d goes through the process of how ice cream sandwiches are made, from wafer baking to the almost eerie precision with which a giant ribbon of ice cream is cut and sandwiched.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Via Mic.Food: The wonderfully strange secrets of a food stylist<\/em><\/p>\n

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Common tools for food stylists are tweezers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Via Bloomberg: Now Delivering: Google Brings Us Burritos by Drone<\/em><\/p>\n

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It hovers about 25 feet above a bullseye on the grass. A white trapezoidal box descends, does a little pirouette, and then lands with a plop. Agents quickly converge on the payload: a braised pork burrito.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Via The New York Times Magazine: The Quest to Make a True Blue M&M<\/em><\/p>\n

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So researchers are still looking everywhere for other natural blue pigments. Among the contenders being tested in laboratories are a berry found in Central and South America, the huito, traditionally used to make dark blue, semi-permanent ceremonial tattoos and as a bug repellent; a blue gardenia flower; red cabbage; aged red wine; a bacteria used to make Swiss cheese; the Japanese kusagi berry; butterfly-pea flowers; and pigments derived from soil bacteria, tree-root fungi, sea sponges and mushrooms. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. Enjoy. Via The A.V. Club: Here\u2019s how ice cream sandwiches are made The clip, aptly titled \u201cIce Cream Sandwiches,\u201d goes through the process of how ice cream sandwiches are made, from wafer baking to the almost eerie precision with which a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekend-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55717,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/11\/spotted-entenmanns-ice-cream-sandwiches\/","url_meta":{"origin":20689,"position":0},"title":"SPOTTED: Entenmann\u2019s Ice Cream Sandwiches","author":"Marvo","date":"April 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"If you told me in 2022 that Entenmann\u2019s was going to come out with ice cream sandwiches in 2023, I would-Ent believe you. 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