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by Jason English - January 17, 2008 - 9:20 AM

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We’re launching a new column next week. Think ‘Feel Art Again,’ but instead of focusing on famous paintings, the series will find fascinating facts about random foods. (Trust me, it’ll be good. Allison Keene will be your host, with photos from Johanna Beyenbach.)

Problem is, the column needs a name. Got any ideas?

I wanted to reward the winner with a $20 shopping spree at the Manhattan Fruit Exchange (above), but that prize structure presents two problems. First, it’s unlikely your hometown has a Manhattan Fruit Exchange. Second, I’ve been told it’s illegal to mail food. (Even if we get all rebellious and ship it anyway, your prize could spoil or attract flies.) So instead of exotic pears and tasty blueberries, the winner will receive a free mental_floss t-shirt. That is, unless the winner happens to be in Manhattan and wants to exercise the free fruit option.

Start your guessing. We’ll pick a winner on Friday.

Comments (178)
  1. ‘Food for Thought’?

  2. “Food for Thought” is good. How about “Food-toids” “The Cornucopia” or “Eat This”.

  3. All you ever wanted to know about the food you eat….. and then some.

  4. “Eat, Think and Be Merry”

    But on a related not: You never heard of Harry & David? I’m pretty sure their business model involved shipping hundreds of tons of food through the mail.

  5. Deliciously interesting

  6. Comestible Corral

  7. I have two:
    Hungry for Knowledge
    or
    Tasty Tidbits

  8. “Chew on This”

    Can we only offer one? I have a few other ideas…

  9. The Lunch Counter

  10. Eatioms? :-)

  11. Food Glorious Food!

  12. Epicuriosities!

  13. The Digestive Tract

  14. I thought I might have a chance to win this one, but I really really like “Eat, Think and Be Merry” ;) Good thinkin’ fixed gear.

    My humble submissions:

    “Facts to Chew on”
    “Think like a Foodie”
    or
    “Factually Delicious”

  15. while probably not what you are looking for, the first thing that popped into my head was “Eat me” :)

  16. “Foodtopia” might work

  17. Food Farce

    Farce as in farcemeat, which is a mixture of ingredients stuffed into something else, like ravioli, or food just mixed together like stuffing.

    And depending on how humorous the writing is about the food.

  18. “tasty facts”
    “mental floss munchies”
    “mind munchies”

  19. How about “Fresh Picked Facts”?

  20. Comestibles to Consider

  21. How about

    Gut Reaction
    Suffering Foods Gladly
    Gastronomy 101
    GI never knew that
    When Good Foods Go Bad
    FUD (fear, uncertainty & doubt)

  22. How about “Edible Information”. Information you can eat? Nooooooo, its information about edible things.

    Or how bout “Ripe with Knowledge”

    I dunno, I got nothing. Being clever and puns are too tricky for me.

  23. Anatomy of Gastronomy

  24. Interesting Ingestibles

  25. “As a matter of Snack”
    or
    “Snack on this”

  26. Chew the Facts

    –I vote for Tom’s GI never knew that!

  27. Floss after meals

  28. The joy of mastication.

  29. Come, and get it. (Get it?) :)

  30. Gastric Gravitas

  31. Brain Food.

    Notions on the half shell

  32. or

    mastication nation.

  33. Foodist Colony

  34. I’m taking the easy way out and suggesting “Nutrition Facts”* haha or something really lame like “Seedlings” or even “Nu-Trivia” wow… I need to stop.

    *All facts based on a 20 blog post a day diet.

  35. I’m having trouble coming up with anything clever, but I have to say that I love “Eat, Think, and Be Merry” as well as “Mental (Floss) Munchies”

  36. “Feed Your Brain”

    “Mental_Munch”

    “Freudian Foods”

    “Mastication Proclimation”

    “Chew, Think, Repeat”

    And for kicks

    “Peel Art(ichoke) Again”

  37. Before consumption, what’s your function?

  38. Chomp, Chew, Digest

  39. Freaky Food Facts

  40. What We Eat

    You Gonna Eat That?

    Let’s Eat!

  41. The Food Column (straight to the point)

    Fantastic Food Facts: Satisfy your mental hunger

    Satisfy Your Hunger

    Eat This!: Edible Facts
    (not meant as an imperative but idiom-type of “to eat something”)

    The Good, The Bad, The Edible: Random Food Facts

    Edible Facts

    FEED ME!

    I’m hungry.

    Seriously, I’m hungry.

    Out to Lunch: Back in 5 minutes.

    Mmm…food…

    Drool

  42. “Feel Food Again”

    Kinda creepy, but funny, too.

  43. Mental munchies

  44. or

    Small bites of knowledge

  45. Grub Hub

  46. Let Them Eat [insert food of the day]!

  47. Epicuriosities

  48. Edible Erudition

  49. I was going to suggest “Readers Digest” but I hear it’s already taken. lol!!!

  50. People Eat That

  51. Well that is what I get for suggesting and then reading. Someone beat me to it.

  52. potluck spot?

  53. What about “Tasty Bites”?

  54. Considering it’s another column of Andrea’s I think “Feel Hunger Again” would be appropriate.

    I do love Roger’s Epicuriosities

  55. I don’t think anyone’s suggested Feed Your Head yet.

  56. “Tasty Tidbits”

  57. Stray Fillet

    Consumers Digest

    Digestive Fact (play on “digestive tract”)

    Unordered Meal (read like “out of order”)

    Mental Mouthful

  58. “Mental Munchies”

  59. “Thought For Food”

  60. Brain Fodder

  61. Smorgasbored?

    Something To Chew On

    Attention Grubber

    What’s On The Menu?

    Know-Chow

    Nourishmentary School

  62. hahaha, really lame but I had to write it:

    One, Two, Entree.

  63. Goobley-Gook

  64. ‘Thought for Food’

  65. Food Fight Clean-Up

  66. Title suggestion “That is a Zucchini in my pocket!”

  67. Cake, and you can eat it too.

  68. “Munch-ado about Comsumption…”

  69. Foodie Foodie Gumdrops

  70. I love Epicuriosities. That was great!

    I also like GI Never Knew That!

    Both are great!

  71. The Good, The Bad, The Edible: Random Food Facts is my favorite so far.

    I can’t think of anything witty or punny, either. This is hard!

  72. so many clever entries I feel inadequate.

    I’m thinking the the feature should be called:

    food

  73. Serving up the facts.
    No Weigh! A Brain buffet?
    Information buffet.
    Don’t Belittle Them Vittles
    Know your Nosh.
    Understanding your ingestibles.
    Digesting the facts.
    Caught with our pantries down.
    Ration nation.
    Are finger sandwiches what I think they are?
    Knowledge: fresh, frozen, and freeze-dried.
    Say Cheese.
    Kumquat d’ya know?
    Know beans about.
    From soup to nuts.
    In a nutshell.

  74. Agri_culture

  75. You know, it helps to read previous comments before contributing.

    “Gourmet Today!”

    But I vote for “GI Never Knew That”

  76. I like GI never knew that, but I’m surprised Stacy’s not writing the column. . . I liked her Thanksgiving and Halloween series and the Fair food.

  77. manducation.

    chew on this.

  78. “Food Follies and Mystery Meats”

  79. ” you are what you eat”

    “Credible edibles”

  80. I loooove
    GI Never Knew That

    how about:
    Eaters’ Digest
    What Sup? (Whassup!)

    What Foods These Morsels Be!

    Chow Now
    Diner’s Dialogue
    Sweet Eats

  81. manducation.

    chomp.

    free baste.

  82. I apologize not for the puns, but that I have not offered more (just kidding, the puns are awful)

    Food brain **as opposed to Brain Food**

    From gourmand to foreman (and everything between)

    What your brain should know but can’t stomach

    Palate Points

    Tofu, Who knew?

  83. Play with your food

  84. “In the Mood for Food”

  85. “Consumption Junction”

  86. How about “Brain Grain”?

  87. Inspired by Sheldon:

    “Readers, Digest!”

    Can the comma save you from copyright infringement? :)

  88. Apples, Oranges, and everything in between.

    That’s food?…Things that go strait to your belly.

    Flossing can make your meal more enjoyable, here’s how!

    Cosmos of food, the weird and wonderful yummies.

    or

    And now for something completely different, weird food from around the world!

  89. Too many posts to read so sorry if already mentioned:

    Your Mid-morning Snack

  90. What about “Dietribe”?

    (though you may get several people trying to correct you on your spelling)

  91. I’m a bit late; so many that I thought of were already sugggested. Rats. Oh, well, like Karen above, the first one that popped in my head was “Eat me”.

    I’d like a way to incorporate one of my favorite words, so how about:

    “Fact Turducken” (a fact, stuffed in a fact, stuffed in a fact…)

    or how `bout
    “Fare Facts”
    “Fare Fodder”

    or one of my favorites:
    “Hey Bub, Thanks for the Mental Grub”
    .

  92. food_floss

  93. “Floss and toss your cookies”

  94. Mental Feast

  95. Meal Tart Again
    Feel Tart Again

  96. How about a few more:

    “Currant Events”
    “Macadamia”
    “Passion Fruit Facts”
    “Get your Pawpaw’s on this”
    “Don’t take it for Pomegranate”

  97. Floss before you eat
    Fast Food Notion
    Random Fact of Foodness
    Sound Bites
    Chew Chew Training

  98. How about floss’s “Pre-Placque Pickup?”

  99. Oh, the puns are killing me!

    “This you can relish”
    “Lady of Shallot”
    “This could make you Quince”
    “Don’t be Toyon with this”
    or “Don’t be Toyon with this Prickly Pear”
    “We’re Raisin the Bar”
    .

  100. Eats’ bits, oh my!

  101. A la Carte

    Culinary Curiosities

  102. “Edible Arts That Mean Everything”

    But you can just use the acronym. lol!!!

  103. Along the lines of Reader’s Digest mentioned above….Reader’s Digestible!

  104. How about Amuse-Bouche(which means small bite)

    or
    Food Bytes

  105. “You are what you eat”
    “Ingredient du jour”
    “Today’s Blue Plate Special”
    “Higher Taste”
    “Envision Provisions”

    eh, I tried. Must nap now.

  106. “Funtastic Food Facts”

    “Salad Flossing”

    “Gruel & Unusual”

    “Ketching Up”

    “On Bread Alone”

    “Orange You Glad”

    ok back to work…

  107. Using the columnists Name:
    “All-is-on the Plate”
    or
    “Keene Palate”
    or
    “Eat all you want!” (line from, “Defending Your Life”)
    or
    “You say Tomato…”
    or
    “you say Tomato, I say Licopeen”
    or
    “Floss Bits”
    or
    “What the Door Mouse said…”(feed your head, feed your head, feed your head)

  108. Cuisine Quest

  109. Heteromorphic Morsels

    Pluto Women’s Small.

  110. Edible Complex!

  111. “Food Beet”

    “All you Read Buffet”

    “Better Get a Bucket…” (monty python)

    “Sweeny Todd says”

    “Corny Copia”

  112. tasty frees

    read it and eat

    7 ate 9

    lick it

    it’s not a tumeric

  113. Culinary Curiosities
    Edible Education

  114. I’ve got two:

    Savor the Flavor

    Savor the Taste

  115. Its Crazy What Goes In Our Mouths

    or

    These Crackers are Making Me Thirsty

  116. Savor the Flavor
    Savor the Taste

  117. Foodunnit?

    Eater’s Digest?

    SmorgasBOARD?

    Chews Your Words Wisely?

    Naked Munch?

  118. Meal-y Mouthed Musings?

  119. The Daily CHOWt Out

  120. From the Melting Pot

    Edible Inquiries

    Mental Tongs

    Even Nerds can Cook

    Foody fun for Everyone

    Fresh off the grill

  121. Would Mikey Like It?

  122. “Mmm-mmmm. That is a tasty [Fill in the blank]”

  123. Meal on the Floss

  124. How about “Food, Fool.”

  125. Chow about these facts…

    Chow you doin’?

  126. Mixing equal parts of Consumer Reports and Reader’s Digest, I offer …

    Consumer’s Digest!

  127. Maybe that should actually read as ‘Consumers Digest’

  128. What A Friend We Have In Cheeses.

  129. The Road Less Eaten

  130. Keen(e) on Cuisine

  131. Transcendental Mastication?

  132. I YAM WHAT I YAM

  133. Are you going to eat that?

  134. Readers’ Digestion

  135. “The Daily Bread”
    “The Daily Spread”

  136. The Immaculate Consumption?

  137. Tasty Morsels to floss over…

  138. That’s IncrEDIBLE!

  139. Ooh!

    “Reads to Digest”

  140. When you’re alone, and life is making you hungry
    You can always go
    Chow- down

    When you’ve got hunger pangs, all the restaurants and delis
    Seem to help, I know
    Chow-down

    Just listen to the voices of the street
    vendors in the city,
    Linger by the man whose falafels don’t
    taste gritty
    How can you refuse? The choices are
    endless there
    You can eat one hot dog, buy a spare and
    go
    Chow down - you’ll be even more
    satisfied when you
    Chow down on another two
    Chow down - the mustard, ketchup, and
    relish are waiting for you!

  141. Hunger for Knowledge?

    OR

    Feel Full Again

  142. a few off the top of my head…

    You Ate What?!?

    Tonight’s Dinner Special

    Chew on This

    Bite Me!

    Feed Your Mind

    Facts for your (GI) Tract

    Clean your Plate

    You are What You Eat

    Nutrition Exposition

  143. Mental Mincemeat

  144. Marion, “What Foods These Morsels Be” is brilliant.

  145. Edible Pantries

  146. pardon the ending of this one w/ a preposition :

    Noshing to Write Home About

  147. Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit (thank you, Monty Python)

  148. What Are You Eating?
    Let’s Do Lunch
    Keene on Food

  149. edible_floss: Where foodies get their fix

  150. “Mental Digest”

    either that or I second MacBeth’s “Food for Thought.”

  151. Dr. Strangeoven (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Order Dessert)

    A Beautiful Rind

    The Produce Section

    The Writer’s Butcher Block

    Grocery Point Blank

  152. Food Trek - Known this before ?

  153. food enlightenments

    Chow Scoop!

    Whats eating you?

    It’s all in the Gravy!

  154. Esoteric Eats
    Obscure Eats
    Detailed Digesting
    Fascinating Food Facts and Fun
    Noshing Nitty Gritty
    The Goods on Gobblin’
    Ruminating Reflections
    Banquet of Facts
    Gourmandinsanity
    The Galloped Gourmet
    Half Baked facts
    Cornucopia Critiques
    Eating Exposition
    Don’t eat that!
    Grazing with Jason
    Weird Wolfin’
    Buffet of facts
    Ingestin Info
    Straight stuff on Scarfin
    Straight stuff on Suppin
    Lunch Hunch
    Flossin on Food

    Binary Social Club XXL pls

  155. That’s hard to swallow…

  156. Melon Head.

    ..not you. The name of the column!

  157. Lickipedia

  158. Chew on that for a while

  159. The E-sophogus

  160. ack… brainfart misspelling… (it’s late)

    E-sophagus

  161. Eating Rainbow (hope LeVar Burton doesn’t read this site)
    Chewin’ The Facts
    Encyclopedia Gastronmica
    You Sure You Wanna Eat That?
    Peachy Keene Food Facts!

  162. How about “Delectable Articles”?

  163. “Chews and Bites”

    “Play with your Food”

    “Amazin Grazin’ ”

    “Bite Me”

  164. Epicure + Academic =
    “Epi*demic”
    “Epi*demic on food”

  165. I almost forgot

    Awesome Sauce!

    Factoid Cornucopia

    Chew on This…

    The Shish-Kablog

  166. Foodie Nation

  167. Feed your Mind?

  168. OK, on the theory that the later coupons are more likely to be drawn:

    Feducation
    O, ICU812 (a song title, long ago?)
    Pomes de terror
    Foodata

  169. I really liked “chew on this”

  170. Chowabunga!

    PI (of course)XL

  171. Has to be

    Food & Floss.. like Necessary

    Any one (except Mt Rushmore)….Large

  172. This is so much fun to read, it should be a regular feature!

    Frommage us to you

  173. Food U

    (a couple of interpretations of this makes it humorous, at least to me)

    Easy as Pi - Women’s large

  174. May I have a drum roll please…

    Fooditude.

    (intentially similiar to ‘fortitude’ which we all know runs rampant in the mental_floss blogosphere)

  175. previously in the kitchen….

  176. Food Fodder Talker

  177. How about “TOOTHPIC” (mispelling is correct)

  178. Something Delicious

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