2007 Ig Nobel Award Winner – Vanilla Flavoring Extracted From Cow Dung. New Ice Cream Flavor Too.

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Ig Nobel awards won by: extracting vanilla fragrance and flavour from cow dung! via Digg

Oh, and the part that will really blow your mind:

As a bonus to the prize, Toscanini’s Ice Cream, based in Massachusetts, invented a new flavour to honour her [Mayu Yamamoto] – Yum-A-Moto Vanilla Twist.

And I thought green tea ice cream was weird. I’m somewhat glad that I’m five time zones away from that stuff.

Full list of Ig Nobel award winners. Another noteworthy winner Sword swallowing and its side effects. I swear, there are no surprises in this study.

Boat Made out of Water via Digg
Caption: Valencia: Will it float?

Not a chance, but it’s a pretty cool idea though.

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