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On an endorphin rush from tonights installment of the 30-Day Shred, I blasted through 800+ items in my previously-neglected food blog reader.  Here are the highlights of the news related to food you probably shouldn't eat but probably sometimes want to.

Chow has a list of 10 frozen drinks for summer, and, actually, most of them are really probably not fast, junk or questionable.  But I was DEVASTATED to learn that Mr. Misty frozen drinks have been renamed Arctic Rush, which sounds to me more like some kind of mentholated deodorant body wash aimed at men aged 18-34.  This wasn't even apparently its first renaming, which means I am very out of touch with the goings-on at Dairy Queen.

Also on Chow - Burger King now has a $200 burger. Proceeds defensively and pre-emptively going to charity.

The SuperTaster (James Norton) on Chow taste-tests, well, questionable food.  This entry is on "shelf-stable ice cream floats" in a bottle.  As he notes, the product was plainly inevitable:

If there’s one thing that parents dread with the coming of each and every summer, it’s the incredible challenge of making root beer or orange soda floats for the kids. We’ve all been there: First, you have to buy vanilla ice cream. Then you have to buy soda. But, wait, there’s more: You have to put a scoop of ice cream into the soda. It’s crazy, right? And who’s going to clean the spoon?

And rounding out the Chow update, here's a brief one, but a caution!  Think carefully before you click on the link in this Chow post.  It takes you to a picture of French fry-coated bacon on a stick.  NSFA (Not Safe For Anyone)

Do you need your bacon portable, but are afraid that French fries simply won't be adequate protection?  Slog has a picture of bacon in a can.  Rolled in its own paper towels.

Epicurious has news of the temporary Hydrox comeback, and a Hydrox cookie contest.  Is it uncool to admit that you sort of like Hydrox better?  I've never really admitted it to myself, but I'll say it now.  That's right: I like Hydrox better than Oreo cookies.  They are crisper.  You don't know what you got 'til it's gone and then temporarily brought back.

Potentially winning the Most Questionable award for this entry, Lego Fun Snacks (gummy fruit snacks shaped like childhood toy and choking hazard Lego blocks) are featured on Accidental Hedonist, who predicts, "Next up for Kellog's - fruit roll-ups recreated to look like shards of glass."

You can add Pringles can designer Fred Baur to the growing list of fast and questionable food notables who passed away recently but whose relatively long life spans belie the idea that the foods are questionable at all.  Of course, we don't know how many Pringles Mr. Baur actually ate in one day, but he was proud enough of his can design enough to have a portion of his ashes buried in a Pringles container.  Which I find oddly touching.