Apparently Koreans are using sausages to control their iPhones instead of taking off their gloves in the winter. There are even reports that the sausage manufacturer has to ramp up production due to an alleged surge in demand. We hope this isn’t an “Asians are so wacky!” thing. So are people really using sausages as stylus pens? You can get all kinds of meaty things at Korean 7-11 — see the video tour below. Or as a commentator pointed out are they just using processed cheese sticks? We are somewhat skeptical about the sausage as pen because there’s only 1 photo circulating. And the source article (in Korean) reads like an ad for food made by South Korea’s CJ Corporation. What do you guys think?

It took a year of searching in two Gulf countries, but we are finally enjoying the fruits of camels’ labor: camel milk cheese. We’ve already made yogurt, yogurt cheese, quark, and a hard quark pressed cheese, similar to ricotta salata. And we like a strained quark that we roll into logs on chives and cracked peppercorns like chevre. Camel milk has about half the fat of cow’s milk making less creamy, but it’s more concentrated in protein and vitamins. It’s possible to buy commercial camel milk, but the supply is limited and it’s only sold in specialty boutiques. But production might be ramping up; if they can make robot camel jockeys, we’re eagerly expecting robot camel milkmaids. Hopefully in time for when our flora danica cultures arrive from America to make a bloomy camembert style cheese – camelbert if you will. Picture below from left to right: camel milk choclate, camel milk, camel milk cheese starter.

A reader asked about the chocolate Rocky Horror Picture Show inspired dress, so I had to also show you guys this delicious riff on Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona day bed.

I thought I was a clever little so and so finally realizing Smarties are not the American artificial sugar candy but naturally flavored and colored chocolate sweets that are a lot like M&M’s without the technicolor (same same but different). But then check out the Rocky Horror Rock Dress by French couturier Eric Tibusch at the Chocolate Show.

The Rocky Horror Rock Dress honors Frankenfurter with a good mix of Michael Jackson spangley military fashion. Mr. Tibusch’s creation used 850 pieces of Revillon chocolate embroidered with lace, nylon and linen. Gives new meaning to Sweet Transvestite, but who can sing with their mouths full anyway.

You can play spot the fake flake when Kellogg’s laser etch their cereal. A concentrated beam of light writes on corn flakes and gives the text a darker, toasted appearance without changing the taste. And it’s not even an image of Tony just the the logo. We hope this won’t become a status symbol, but at least corporations tell us brand cereals are healthy…