No kidding! Lollyphile, a Texas-based candy company, has released a vegan lollipop that tastes like breast milk. Founder, Jason Darling, said he came up with the idea after he noticed that breast milk was turning his friends' furious babies into a docile, contented ones.

What is it about toothpaste that transforms the sweet flavour of orange juice into something so bitter? What the cause of this mysterious sensory phenomenon...

Why do bars serve nuts or crisps or biltong? To make you thirsty so you'll drink more beer? Yes, but that's only half right - fatty-salty snacks actually make beer easier to swallow.

Sending messages in bottles has been around since at least the Ancient Greeks... but now as part of a promotional campaign, Solo, a soft drink company based in Norway, has built an 8-meter tall replica soda bottle outfitted with solar panels, a camera, and tracking technology and set it adrift in the ocean. [Click pic to enlarge]

Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at the age of 87, was one of Britain's most accomplished, if controversial, politicians and prime ministers. Love her, hate her, there is something that lovers of dairy the world over have to thank her for: Baroness Thatcher, the legend goes, helped invent soft-serve ice cream.

TED, the non-profit organisation and website devoted to 'Ideas Worth Spreading', recently released its 2013 list of 10 “Ads Worth Spreading,” which recognises innovative and intelligent advertising people want to see and share with friends. Among them, and the only one in the food-bev sectors, is Coca-Cola's awesome 'Security Cameras' ad, a sweet reminder that while security cameras around the world capture some of the lowest moments in human behaviour - they also capture some of the most beautiful.

Produced at least as far back as 5 000 BC, beer has been with us for a long time. But the lifespan of individual beers is more likely to be measured in days or weeks rather than years or decades. The exception is if they’re preserved at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in a shipwreck. One such shipwrecked beer that is about 170 years old has been salvaged and analysed and will be reproduced using modern industrial techniques.

‘Beer goggles’, the phenomenon used to explain how a few stiff drinks can transform the plainest face into something much more attractive, has been revealed as a myth by a brain expert.