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Fiber One: Not the kind of "magic brownies" Cheech and Chong usually eat.

Cheech and Chong are back! The vintage stoner duo is starring in a short flick used to promote General Mills Fiber One 90-calorie brownies.

The Business Journal reports that the term "magic brownies" came up in a Fiber One marketing meeting and next thing they knew, General Mills was shooting a video about Cheech and Chong on a mission to deliver a van full of brownies.

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Heinz debuts its new "dip and squeeze" ketchup packet.

Heinz has redesigned its 1960s-era ketchup packets only to enable the uncivilized--not to mention dangerous--practice of eating while driving.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Heinz had research subjects sit in fake minivans and eat so they could observe their interaction with ketchup packets. (Some people, apparently have been known to, while driving, squirt the ketchup directly into their mouths, and then add fries.)

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Council Bluffs Police Department

Giving new meaning to the phrase, "lost dog."

A mysterious hot dog man showed up in downtown Council Bluffs, Iowa, giving new meaning to the phrase "lost dog."

The Daily Nonpareil newspaper reports that one morning earlier this month, the local police department received a call from a concerned citizen who had noticed a man in a hot dog suit waving at people near a bus stop, giving some obvious cause for concern.

The police arrived to find the man was actually a 6-foot-tall statue of a hot dog who would be applying ketchup to his forehead and holding a bottle of mustard, were his arms not broken off.

The dog, who sports sweat socks and sneakers, appears to be licking his lips in anticipation. Is he planning to eat himself?

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Oprah hypes a KFC coupon. Lawsuit results.

Two years ago, after Oprah promoted a KFC coupon for a grilled chicken meal, a perfect storm of the endorser's popularity and the national hunger for fast food turned the promotion into a PR disaster.

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Is there an inalienable right to slyders?

What is it about White Castle that makes so many people feel access to slyders is their inalienable right?

Just a couple years ago, a wheelchair bound St. Paul woman (who happened to be a former stripper, remember?) lost a lawsuit against the Castle regarding her right to take her mobility scooter through the drive-thru after hours.

Now, a 290-pound New York man, Martin Kessman, 64, has filed a lawsuit against White Castle claiming that the the fast food chain's too-small booths violate the civil rights of obese people.

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If you ate at the Monticello McDonald's, better check your credit card statement.

The Wright County Sheriff's office has uncovered a massive case of credit card fraud that took place at the Monticello McDonald's, KSTP reports.

Earlier this summer, a 16-year-old female working the drive-through station had been skimming customers' credit card numbers. Law enforcement officials believe she swiped customers' cards once to make the purchase and then again, with an electronic skimming device that stored the credit card number, without the cardholder's knowledge.

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Betty Crocker Strawberry Frosting lip balm.

What, exactly, was the idea behind the new mega food manufacturer-branded lip balms? Smear a little Boo Barry or Pop Secret-scented wax on your smackers for all the satisfaction without the calories?

Who knows? What we do know is that General Mills, Betty Crocker, and Pillsbury have launched a line of cereal-, baked good-, and snack food-flavored balms for $2 to $3 a pop, roughly the same price as their namesake products.

If you'd like to track 'em down, you can click here. Or you can take the word of the testers at Serious Eats, who tried 12 varieties and found them sadly uninspiring.

KCCI's Eric Hanson tries deep-fried butter at the Iowa State Fair.

It's made its way to the Indiana, Wisconsin, Texas, and Iowa State Fairs. Even something called the Canadian National Exhibition has served it. Paula freaking Dean has a recipe for the stuff. But, alas, there's no deep fried butter to be had at the Minnesota State Fair.

To make deep-fried butter, chilled or frozen butter is cut in strips or chunks, battered, and dunked in a hot oil bath until it melts and soaks into the cinnamon-sugar hull...or drips all over your pants. And you thought a deep-fried Snickers was unhealthy.

Check out the video below and tell us what you think:

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Check your 'fridge and freezer for recalled Cargill ground turkey products.

Salmonella is scary stuff. An antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella? Even scarier.

One of such dangerous bugs has has killed one person and sickened 77 others in the past several months and is believed to have come from ground turkey products from a Springdale, Arkansas plant owned by Minnesota-based Cargill.

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Jamawn Woods of Soul Daddy blames Chipotle on his woes.

Jamawn Woods, winner of America's Next Great Restaurant, and founder of three quickly-shuttered Soul Daddy eateries, including one at the Mall of America, is blaming his failure on one of his backers, Chipotle.

Woods told the celebrity rag TMZ ** that the management team provided by Chipotle had no experience with soul food, the root of poor operations.

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