• A rash of recent closings might spell the end for Orange County’s frozen yogurt craze. [FastFoodMaven]
• Three homeless men in Moscow killed another man, ate part of him, and sold the rest to a kebab shop. [NYP]
• This Christmas, famed British restaurant The Fat Duck will serve ambergis, better known as whale vomit. [The Sun]
• Portland’s newly opened Cafe Rumpsmackers will soon change its name to Cannabis Cafe in order to serve food and pot to medical marijuana patients. [TheMoneyTimes]
• A Colombian cooking school has invented a “love dessert” made of passion fruit mousse — oh, and Viagra. [NYDN]
• Workers in New Zealand have been hired to dig through Antarctic ice to retrieve two crates of Scotch that were lost amid explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s failed 1909 expedition. [AP]
• After sharp opposition from the oyster industry, the FDA has indefinitely delayed a ban on warm-weather Gulf oysters. [NYT]
• Major food companies are throwing marketing dollars into lavish junkets to woo blogging mothers. [L.A. Times]
• Meatpacking plants are being pushed out of Louisville, Kentucky, even in the city’s Butchertown neighborhood. [WSJ]
• The Food and Drug Administration says it will pull caffeinated alcoholic beverages from the market unless manufacturers can prove the drinks’ safety. [WSJ]
