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Is Homaro Cantu Aiming To Save Post Office With Edible Stamps?

Neither rain nor sleet nor industrial lasers.
Neither rain nor sleet nor industrial lasers.

Could Homaro Cantu’s latest magic trick be saving the Department of Junk Mail, aka the Post Office? A piece in the Huffington Post claims that Cantu is working with the Post Office to develop edible stamps that not only smell like the fruit depicted on the face of the stamp, they taste like it as well. That’s correct: Chicago’s famed menu-munching chef has helped the USPS put together a stamp for each state that depicts that state’s commemorative fruit. Now licking stamps has become a lot more challenging, but for a new reason. Very soon postal customers in Maine will be licking wild blueberry stamps by the sheet, Alabamans will be enjoying books of blackberries, those of you in Oregon will have your pear stamps and for my friends in North Dakota, try not to choke on those chokecherries.

And the snozzberries taste like real snozzberries… Post Office official Addie Hassef says “That’s our goal. That our postal customers see these new stamps as more than stamps, we want them to be seen as party favors, gifts to budding foodies, cake decoration or garnish for a bowl of Cheerios when your bananas are way past their prime.”

Um, yeah. We’re getting close enough to April 1 that we don’t trust anything, but on the other hand, Homaro Cantu also posted it on Facebook. So take it for what it’s worth, and remember what the 60s taught us, be careful whose stamps you lick. [HuffPo]

Is Homaro Cantu Aiming To Save Post Office With Edible Stamps?