Food links for the past two days:

On Wednesdays the Toronto Star’s food section appears. Here are two stories from this week:

• Eating a pig from head to tail. Apparently Montreal restaurant Au Pied de Cochon makes a foie gras that’s better than sex. I may be off meat but even I’d admit that you can’t say that about tofu.
• Attuned to fiddleheads. I already decided to try them this year. I’ve started to see them in stores.

Taste T.O takes the Great Gelato Taste Test.

Ed Levine on mangosteens. I almost bought one once. The inside sort of looks like a brain, or flesh-coloured orange (the fruit) sections.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new legislation on food labeling in Canada. Food items labeled as a product of Canada or made in Canada will now have to ensure that nearly all of their contents are Canadian in origin and processed in this country.

This is gross but I have to: Milk chocolate covered bacon. Thank you, Marisa. It almost disturbs me as much as the link to the chocolate anus (that’s not a typo) that Chris posted yesterday, which could have been a follow up to – but wasn’t – Rob’s comment on Sunday that particular chocolates resembled a female body part. I still don’t see it.

The Appetizer’s Gadget of the Week: Oxo’s Mango Slicer. Turns out The Kitchn reviewed this gadget in 2006. Looks useful if you eat a lot of mangoes and have the space, and if you don’t mind spending a few bucks on such things. I have trouble slicing mangos, and yet I rarely buy them and I don’t believe in using gadgets for tasks that should be easy. My small kitchen can only hold so many useless or single-use gadgets. My microplane and tongs hang on a wall. As I’ve said before the microplane is my favourite. I rarely find use for tongs or remember to use them but they’re good to have for tonging tossing things. I don’t slice mangos with grace, but I do it gadget-free. I’ve tried the technique that involves scoring the fruit into cubes but in the end I just slice around the pit. The Appetizer’s article reminded me of Michael Ruhlman’s blog post from April about his favourite kitchen gadgets. He too mentions the microplane. I don’t own most of that stuff and some of which I do I rarely use. I do keep a Sharpie – and adhesive labels – in my kitchen. I need a really good knife set.

Burger King U.K. brings the “party sized pizza” idea to burgers. Read about it here. At first glance I thought that they were trying to replicate White Castle’s sliders. (*Which reminds me, if any of you have my Harold and Kumar DVD please identify yourself.)
Links to posts/stories that aren’t directly food-related:

• A Truck That Runs on Coffee Grounds – I know some people who go through enough coffee to fuel a truck.
• Today, Canadian Geographic will release an issue printed on paper made from wheat. Wheat is food. I think that this is a great idea. “The magazine says adding agricultural waste to pulp from trees could offer farmers a new source of revenue and cut the demand for pulp from the continent’s boreal forests.” Rock on.

And one that’s not related to food at all, but CBC radio’s been running it all day:

CBC reports that Canada’s top court is expected to rule Thursday on the case of a man suing a company for psychological damages he says he suffered after finding a dead fly in his water bottle. The man claims that the discovery of a fly in the water bottle triggered depression, phobia and anxiety that affected his work and his sex life. If a dead fly triggered all that, I’d guess that he had some underlying anxieties and phobias to begin with. Update: It was thrown out of court.