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The latest installment of McSweeney’s literary journal offers Reviews of New Food that won’t necessarily make you smarter, but will definitely make you laugh out loud.

Here is a snip from Steve DiPetro’s review of Morningstar Farms Veggie Breakfast Bacon Strips:

Prompted by a vegetarian co-worker, I took a bite of what looked like a child’s rendering of bacon. After catching the pieces that it broke into when I bit down, I foolishly threw them into my mouth. Now, I’ll give the mad scientists at Morningstar Farms a little credit: it tasted vaguely like bacon. It tasted like what an android that is trying to fit in with us humans would imagine bacon would taste like. When hidden inside a BLT, it might even work. Eaten alone in a dark editing bay, it did not work. Was my co-worker actually an android? How many more of them were there? Is this how their infiltration would be exposed? By me, here in this room, eating what feels like petrified carpet cushioning with a hint of bacon flavor? Did his eyeball just take a picture of me? It did. Why did I trust a vegetarian?

Read more Reviews of New Food (via Culinate)

Interesting. Merrell’s new Gatherer Jacket is a lightweight shell that you insulate yourself. From trailspace.com:

Instead of coming filled with a pre-determined amount of down or synthetic insulation, the Gatherer features several strategically-placed zippers that allow the wearer to stuff the jacket with whatever insulation material they like: dried leaves, scraps of yarn, pine needles, shredded newspaper, and any other reused, recycled, or found materials.

Not only that, but the jacket is semi-transparent so you can show off the maple leaves, wool socks, and toilet paper you’ve stuffed yourself with. Kind of a cool live-off-the-land idea for the ultra-lightweight eco-aware camper (or self-expressionist). But how warm could it be? I kind of want to find out…

The Gatherer will be available in August 2008, retailing for $99.

Link to Outdoor Retailer: Merrell Gatherer Jacket