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by Anonymous User on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 09:36:52 PM PDT

"There's also that "patent pending" blurb on the cotton candy sheet; I was not aware you could patent a recipe. In fact, I'm fairly sure you can't!"

Er ... actually, the food itself isn't ... nah, it's easier just to show you.

US Pat. No. 411845300

Method and device for extorting rich connoisseurs with deniability via consumable, self-destructing End-User-License-Agreement-like (EULAlike) artificial coloring decorating carbohydrate sheets.

(Anyone with an oldskool calculator may find the first seven digits look ... interesting, if typed into one.)

P.S. Ed, the default has changed back from Auto Format to HTML. :P

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