Friday Links for Food Lovers, Plus Tom Douglas' Favorite Kitchen Gear

It's Friday again! Here are a few tasty links the Al Dente editors obsessed about this week:

• Humans would be less smart if there were no McGriddles--or something like that. (The Frontal Cortex)
• Pepsi Blue, we hardly knew you. Seven soda brands that didn't survive the 2000's. (BuzzFeed)
• A 150.7 lb. cupcake sets a new World's Record for pointlessness. (news:lite)
• Man v. Food premiers August 5 with a spicy burger challenge known as the Four Horsemen. (my SA News)
• Man who can't cook sued Denny's over high sodium content. (FoxNews)
• Your diet ends today. Blame the Chocolate Chocolate Chip and Nutella Cream Sandwich Cookies. (Life's Ambrosia)

If you haven't heard yet, Seattle's favorite chef, Tom Douglas, recently launched a line of kitchen utensils and grill tools. He's also listed out his favorite kitchen gear. Notably missing from his list are the SlapChop and Magic Bullet. And you call yourself a chef...

Have a great weekend.

--Spanno