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Makes me think of "ChickieNobs," a product Margaret Atwood created and named in her 2003 dystopian novel, "Oryx and Crake." The site Technovelgy.com cites their tasty introduction in the story:
"This is the latest," said Crake.
What they were looking at was a large bulblike object that seemed to be covered with stippled whitish-yellow skin. Out of it came twenty thick fleshy tubes, and at the end of each tube another bulb was growing.
"What the hell is it?" said Jimmy.
"Those are chickens," said Crake. "Chicken parts. Just the breasts, on this one. They've got ones that specialize in drumsticks too, twelve to a growth unit.
"But there aren't any heads..."
"That's the head in the middle," said the woman. "There's a mouth opening at the top, they dump nutrients in there. No eyes or beak or anything, they don't need those."
Word of the Week: Shmeat
Shmeat: Meat grown in a laboratory from animal cells; the objectives include reducing animal cruelty and increasing the global supply of affordable protein. “Shmeat” is a portmanteau of “sheet” and “meat.” An undated article on a website called Shmeat.com (apparently operated by SavingAdvice.com...
This is great, Nancy. "Ablixa" reminded me of another, um, calming product in a movie: The suicide product called "Quietus," which shows up in several commercials and ads before being used by a character in "Children of Men."
Apparently, an actual medication also goes by that name: http://www.notarealthing.com/2010/04/quietus-you-decide-when/
Fictional Brand Name: Ablixa
Side Effects, the new film from Steven Soderbergh that’s now in theaters, is a twisty thriller, more gris than noir, in which almost every character is taking mood-adjusting prescription drugs. Beta blockers, Adderall, Paxil, Effexor, Celexa, Zoloft, Wellbutrin—in the film, these real-world drug...
So many cinematic "Houses" are haunted ones:
House of Wax
House of 1,000 Corpses
House of Good and Evil
House of the Dead
House of Anubis (UK TV series). In that one, I hope the jackal-headed god is housebroken ;)
In the House
“House of Cards,” a political thriller directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey as a US congressman, debuts today on Netflix. The show, based on a BBC miniseries of the same name, is the first show produced specifically for Netflix, which is releasing all 13 episodes at once. ...
A carmaker has caught on, and "improved" on the apostrophe with an underscore. Behold the Kia Pro_cee'd GT and the Cee'd GT. Small measure of relief: These 2 cars are not coming to the U.S. I fear the unholy underscore would spread. http://www.edmunds.com/auto-shows/geneva/2013/2013-kia-pro-ceed-gt-and-ceed-gt-set-for-2013-geneva-auto-show.html
Somethin’s Missin’
Picking up on yesterday’s theme of apostrophe’d brand names, here are more examples of squiggles in places you wouldn’t expect to find them. Exhibit A: Amaz’n Asian Sesame Chik’n. I learned about this frozen product at The Impulsive Buy, which tested it and found it “not amaz’n, but appetiz’...
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