• A group of Taunton middle schoolers are lobbying to get the quahog named as the official state shellfish. [Herald]
• Five North Square must remove the seats from their service bar, ruled the Licensing Board. [North End Waterfront]
• The Food and Drug Administration says it will pull caffeinated alcoholic beverages from the market unless manufacturers can prove the drinks’ safety. [WSJ]
• After sharp opposition from the oyster industry, the FDA has indefinitely delayed a ban on warm-weather Gulf oysters. [NYT]
• Three homeless men in Moscow killed another man, ate part of him, and sold the rest to a butcher shop. [NYP]
• This Christmas, famed British restaurant The Fat Duck will serve ambergis, better known as whale vomit. [The Sun]
• A Colombian cooking school has invented a “love dessert” made of passion fruit mousse — oh, and Viagra. [NYDN]