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Tuna is the news of the moment. This giant bluefin tuna sold for a record 32.49 million yen or $396,000, in Tokyo. As many of us know, Tokyo is world's largest wholesale fish market.

This record breaker weighed 754-pound tuna and beat the previous record set in 2001 by a 445-pound fish that was sold for 20.2 million yen.

The giant tuna was caught off the coast of northern Japan. The record-setting price translates to 95,000 yen per kilogram or $526 per pound.

"It was an exceptionally large fish," said the official, Yutaka Hasegawa. "But we were all surprised by the price."

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Man's best friends will surely rejoice with this news. The world’s very first ice cream truck for dogs rolled out in London. The ice-cream van will serve canine-friendly flavors such as "Dog Eat Hog World" — a chicken and gammon sorbet. This vehicle was created to celebrate the Boomerang Pets Party.

And also, though their ice cream flavor tastes different than what we're used to, they are safe for human consumption.

"The weather has been so hot, we thought dogs deserved a cooling treat as much as anyone else," said Sally Bezant of event organizer Boomerang Pets Party. She said a team of pet nutritionists had been through a complicated scientific process to determine the tastiest and safest flavors for the dogs' dessert. And although the unusual flavors were tested on a panel of dogs, they can be eaten by humans.

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What could be better to celebrate the upcoming release of Starcraft 2 than eat this Starcraft cake. I just wish they also have one for Terran and Protoss.

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If you have a heart problem, this canned pork brains could be your last meal. With 3500mg cholesterol per serving, a can of this "delicious and nutritious" brain matter constitutes to up 1170% of your daily cholesterol recommended dietary allowance.

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Aside from being the most-watched U.S. television broadcast of the year, the Super Bowl is the second-largest U.S. Food Consumption Day after the Thanksgiving Day.

To give you an idea, here are some Super Bowl food facts.

The average Guacomole that is consumed on that day is 8 million pounds, 14,500 tons of chips and 4,000 tons of popcorn. Ten million man-hours is spent on Super Bowl food preparation. On Monday, the day after the Superbowl, antacid sales increase to 20 percent and 6% of all working Americans will call in sick the day after the Bowl.

So whether you are in a mega Super Bowl party, at home with your family, or just watching alone, you are one in an estimated 95 millions of Americans who will watch the game.

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The meat art show dubbed 'Meat After Meat Joy' features arts made of animal meat. Check the pictures out.

Meat After Meat Joy is a group exhibition of contemporary artists who use meat in their work, currently running at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York City. Curated by Heide Hatry, the show's title refers Carolee Schneemann’s performance/happening Meat Joy (1964, embedded below), itself projected in the gallery.

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If you happen to visit, why not eat at MYASS, I mean, at Mcdonalds in Yass

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Meet Brad Sciullo, a.k.a the Burger King. In 4 hours and 39 minutes, this chef at a western Pennsylvania Italian restaurant ate a 15-pound burger with 5.2 pounds of toppings. He is the first person to successfully eat the huge burger at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pittsburgh.

For completing the challenge in under five hours, Brad won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate and a burger hangover.




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If you are on a diet but can help dining out, why not try the ZeroCal - the negative calorie food container.

* The meals contain a large proportion of foods with negative calories (cauliflower, cucumbers, celery, garlic etc.) creating a calorie deficit.

* •Many high-calorie foods (like meat) are substituted with lower-calorie foods that are just as delicious (like seafood).

* •The remaining calories are erased through our proprietary CalBurnKnob™ technology. This is a knob on the takeaway box that's very hard to open (see picture below) – meaning you burn off the remainder just by opening the container!

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A Japanese grapes called "Ruby Roman" was sold for $900 a bunch. The said grapes has the same size of pingpong ball each.

On August 11, 2008, in Ishikawa Prefecture Japan, a bunch of “Ruby Roman” grapes were auctioned and purchased by a restaurant owner for a record high of 100,000 yen (around $910).

The bunch had about 35 grapes on it, costing around $26 per grape, and each one was as big as a ping pong ball.

The other bunches sold for average of 27,000 yen (around $245).

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Wanna eat all you can and stay fit? Be a world class Olympian like Michael Phelps. He eats a whooping 12,000 calories a day or 4,000 calories every meal. That's six times than the average man of his age and size suggested calorie intake of 2,000 calories. Apparently, his calorie intake is being washed away by his training of five hour a day, six time a week regimen.

Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.

He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

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If you wanna live healthier and longer then you should know the worst artery cloggers in America. Knowing this could save your life.

This is the meal to eat if you like pig products: two eggs scrambled with chopped bacon, diced ham, and crumbled sausage, then topped with cheddar cheese. All rounded out with two strips of bacon, two sausage links, hash browns, and two fluffy buttermilk pancakes. The amount of sodium in this pile of pig garbage is enough to last you two days … if you don’t die of a heart attack first.

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Anyone wants a baby made from chocolate? I wonder if you dare eat them.

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Caffe Raro is a coffee made from animal dung and thought to be the most expensive coffe in the world at £50 a cup. Coffe, anyone?

Jamaican Blue Mountain and the Kopi Luwak bean are used to create Caffe Raro which is thought to be the most expensive cup of coffee in the world. Kopi Luwak beans are eaten, then passed, by the cat-like Asian palm civet, and sell for £324 a kilogram. All profits from sales of the coffee at Peter Jones in Sloane Square in April will go to Macmillan Cancer Support.

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Going on a fish diet? Why not include in your menu the world's biggest fish finger.

It was served up by an MP outside the Houses of Parliament. Fish fingers have been popular in Britain for the past 80 years - even Posh Spice has confessed to eating them. The only question we have is how much tomato sauce would you need for the king of all sandwiches?!

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An Illinois-Look-A-Like corn flake on has been offered more than $1,000 in Ebay. According to it's sellers, the breakfast cereal looks like the state of Illinois and has not gone any alterations.

Two sisters listed 'The Great Illinois Corn Flake' on the auction site, promising that it had undergone no cosmetic alterations to make it look more Illinoisy.

Emily McIntire, a 15-year-old sophomore in high school from Chesapeake, Virginia, said she was grabbing fistfuls of cereal on her way to class when she found the flake.

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Try this. The tearless onion - the onion that doesn't make you cry when you chop it. Using gene-silencing technology to dry up the enzyme that causes crying, scientists believed they have discovered the "tearless onion"

The team, led by Dr Colin Eady, from The New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research, say the groundbreaking onions are still in the developmental stage.

Dr Eady said: "What we've done is develop the tearless onion.

"We anticipate that the health and flavour profiles will actually be enhanced by what we've done.

"What we're hoping is that we'll essentially have a lot of the nice, sweet aromas associated with onions without that associated bitter, pungent factor."

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This bread bowl is fit for those who don't have time to wash up. It's one of the strangest culinary inventions in years.

A Birmingham food firm has started making bowls and plates out of dough. The idea is that diners enjoy a soup, chilli or curry, then eat the bowl too.

David Williams, the managing director of Butt Foods, which has developed the idea, admits: "Our banks, our investors all thought we were crackers. But we've now proved them wrong."

The company already supplies a chain of pubs with prawn cocktail-filled bread bowls and says that later this year a leading supermarket will stock its microwavable naan bowl filled with chicken tikka masala.

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Nino Selimaj, owner of six New York City pizza restaurants, offers the world's most expensive pizza as $1000. This gourmet pizza is 12″ with a thin crust, topped with lobster tail, six different types of caviar including salmon roe, creme fraiche (a fancy type of cheese), and chives. Link

At $25,000, this cup of haute chocolate is the world's most expensive dessert. It was declared by the Guinness World Records.

Created by Serendipty 3, a popular New York restaurant, it is made from slushy mix of cocoas from 14 countries, milk and 5 grams of 24-carat gold topped with whip cream and shavings from a La Madeline au Truffle and served in a goblet with a band of gold decorated with 1 carat of diamonds and served with a golden spoon diners can take home.

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