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Have a craving for Le Cochon dOr smoked ham from Cap-de-la-Madelene in Quebec? How about some Yarmouth Island lobster hors d’oeuvres or Mama Africa’s Zulu lemon, garlic, jalepeno relish?

Those and thousands of other regional specialties are now being offered by online bookstore giant Amazon.com in its latest move to diversify from its core business of selling books and music.

Amazon launched its gourmet food store this week, offering more than 30,000 regional food items from about 300 merchants, including foods from most states and ethnic offerings from many countries. There are more than 700 different cheeses alone.

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Campbell Soup Co. is targeting active Gen X and Gen Y-ers with a line of energy juices called Invigor8, marking the brand’s first entry into the $1 billion energy-drink segment. The single-serve juices, Invigor8 Energy Boost and Invigor8 Nutrition Boost, will be backed by an estimated $15 million outdoor and radio campaign breaking in the first quarter of 2004. The work will bear the tagline, “Positively charged.” WPP’s Young & Rubicam in New York, handles the account.

“At 7-Eleven’s new “hot beverage stations,” customers will have a choice of more than 1,300 combinations. A minimum of five varieties of coffee, four flavored syrups, seven different tea bags, five toppings, creamers, sweeteners and all types of milk will be available at each station. 7-Eleven’s customers will make the drinks themselves, guided by store suggestions, thus avoiding waiting in line to order. The drinks will cost about $1 per cup instead of the typical coffeehouse prices hovering between $3 and $4.” [Read more…] about Hot beverage stations, with a choice of more than 1,300 combinations

Alcohol flavoured popcorn is to be sold at late night screenings of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Halloween.

Sambuca and Irish Cream flavoured popcorn will also be available at Odeon cinemas in Kingston-upon-Thames, Newcastle, Leicester, Glasgow, Southampton and Coventry.

The chain says a standard box of the popcorn will contain less alcohol than a single liqueur chocolate.

Spokesman Richard Storton, said: “Feedback from customers was that they’d like more choice of popcorn flavours and alcohol flavoured popcorn turned out to be a popular request. We’ll obviously only be limiting it to 18 certificate films, strictly for adults only!”

If the popcorn proves to be a hit, Odeon says it will consider trialing other popular alcoholic flavours.

In addition to alcohol popcorn, customers were asked what other flavours they’d most like to try. Among the favourites were fish and chips, pesto, vanilla and strawberry cheesecake flavours.

Source: https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_833466.html?menu=news.quirkies