Oreos could make for an inspiring kind of edible construction toy. Two kinds: Premade parts and Custom Bake-ables. With Premade, you’d chocolate crisps in squares, rectangles, bricks and circles, plus a pot of creamy white filling “mortar.” Arrange in any way. Towers. Tunnels. Vehicles. Castles. Boats. In Custom Bake-ables, you could do all that using little molds, or create super sizes, like Read More …
If it would cut the cost of your food, would you be cool with eating a steak “branded” with the logo for a beer? Or see an for ad for Wheat Thins stamped on slices of American cheese? Or how about web addresses that show up when you toast a slice a bread? Or how about pop Read More …
As I mentioned before, it’d be great to revive Rocky and Bullwinkle in a series of novels. Loony spy adventures … deadpan humor … chapters with punny titles … somebody sign me up, please! But he’s a more up-to-date idea, blog these new adventures, featuring a new installment every day. Perhaps written as a diary by Rocky or Bullwinkle or Read More …
Play with your food: On a box of special tea leaves, include instructions for how to read tea leaves to foretell the future. I’m especially thinking these little leaves should have shapes like letters and words like “buy” so when the letters float together into abbreviations for stocks, presto, instant stock tip. (Probably should call it Instant Read More …
How about a cereal called Puzzles & Games? The back of the box has a flap that pulls down into a game board. Edible bits inside would be game pieces (like chess or checkers, letters or numbers). Maybe the pieces vary for different editions. Or maybe the box come with a Magic Pen for solving invisible ink puzzles Read More …
This isn’t so much an idea as a testimonial. In high school, I had to give up golf because my knuckles would swell and my hands would hurt. Books and buzz suggested arthritis, or whatever I had, might be related to foods. After reading a book by a Dr. Marshall Mandel (searches aren’t turning up a title that Read More …
Once there was a Milkshake candy bar. I think it was your basic Milky Way like bar, a soft filling covered in harder chocolate. Bring it back, and carry the concept through. Instead of just tasting like a milkshake, make the inside so slurpable you can sip it with the included short fat straw. When Read More …
Think about it. On TV, if you see two people who are happy, they’re probably eating, drinking or having sex. Maybe this is part of the obesity epidemic. Who shares the message: Feel lousy? Be patient. Sigh, suffer and cry, if you need to. The rottenness will pass and you’ll feel better. Trust me. It’ll happen. Or, Read More …
The peanuts are the best part of Crackerjack for me. Too bad they always fall to the bottom of the bag, but hey that’s life. Don’t have an idea for solving that. But if Crackerjack sold bags of just their peanuts (a) folks would buy them because they’re good, and (b) other folks would buy them Read More …
The mother of all Magic 8 Balls. Has a much bigger window. And when you shake it and turn it over, three of the 20 message triangles float into view within that window. For example: “Edible.” “Music.” “Money.” Let it percolate. What bubbles into your brain? Edible Music? Song lyrics printed on flat candy? Chocolates Read More …
Wish I could buy one. But I can’t see it working with just one wheel/blade. Veggies could go flying everywhere. So give it three, four or five wheels, and maybe add some kind of outer rim to catch outer veggie bits trying to blast all over the kitchen floor. It would be like a power tool Read More …
Ever make Jell-O Jigglers? They stay semi-solid at room temperature, and they’re firm enough to cut into shapes. Why not make intense mini-shapes to use as fruit-flavored sweetener for tea? Put them on the end of flavored toothpicks if the “can’t touch any actual ingredient” issue is a problem. Make them so they dissolve in cold liquids, Read More …
Little promotional gimmick. Inside every package of Lifesavers is a tunnel made of holes. Write some life-saving tip (excerpts from The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook series?) on slip of paper, roll it into the slimmest scroll, and slide it down the row of Lifesaver holes. Just be a cool way to get new buzz Read More …
Add a little fun to frozen pizzas by making pictures out of toppings. Arrange the cheese to melt into a smiley face. (Yes, I’m losing my mind.) Have pepperoni pieces in the shape of trains. Spell words with sausage bits. Of course, like anything, this can be taken too far. We draw the line at Read More …
My wife, Anne, like Jujyfruits, but only the reds, oranges and yellows. No green or black ones, thank you. So one Christmas, for fun, I took two boxes, pulled out the greens and blacks, and filled one box with her favorites. Also cut and pasted pictures from the second box so only the kinds she liked were Read More …