I've been browsing the FDA website listing the vast number of peanut butter products affected by the Blakley, Georgia processing plant salmonella re-call. The highest number of products containing peanut products from the factory is candy.
Candy that bears a strange resemblence, nominally, at least, to something else, and I quote from the list:
Bear Poop
Bear Scat
Buffalo Chips
Chicken Coop Poop
Cow Patties
Cow Pies
Deer Droppings
Moose Droppings
Osprey Poop
Prairie Dog Pebbles
I think these packages of chocolate coated peanuts are widely available in airport gift-shops, packaged as local "delicacies." Seriously, though- Osprey Poop?!
Why name confectionary after animal droppings? Is this perhaps the ironic, post-history of early modern fewmets? Coincidence? You decide.
Oh, and I have to include the names of some other peanut candies, just because they seem pretty funny to me:
Crew Rations
Torn Ranch
Zachary
The full list is available here: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm#Candy
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When I went to Nara (Japan), a city famous for its Buddhist temples and for having been the capital in the 700s (err, I think), and also famous for the sacred deer associated with the temples, I took some "deer dropping" cookie things back to my class. :)
Wait, they even have them in Japan? Or are they real, like Kopi Luak (civet coffee)?
These were sort of roundish chocolate cookie things. There's a tradition there that when you go on a visit, you get a special food treat to take back to friends/co-workers, and such, so these were one of the possible choices.
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