Absurd

The Japanese Prefecture of Saga's Japan Agricultural Cooperative has devised a way for socially distanced strawberry picking in the heart of Tokyo and revealed the details last week. The pop-up fruit-picking site is directly below the Tokyo Tower. Visitors drive through the tent filled with fruit, pick…

What will the supermarket of the future look like? That's something many people are considering. But, there's not yet any single answer. This animation shows a creative store concept. Who knows? In a few years, you might be visiting a drive-through store like this.

Peeling Back

Facebook’s automated anti-nudity filters finally stopped impressionable children from seeing unimaginable filth on their timelines: a pile of onions that was flagged for being inappropriate.

Gaze Seed Company tried to advertise on Facebook using a picture of a pile of onions in a basket to market its seeds, CBC reports, but was blocked by Facebook’s algorithm. The official reason? Facebook’s algorithms decided that the picture was “overtly sexualized.” It’s a funny error, sure, and one that raises questions about the sorts of things these algorithms are into — but at a more basic level, it also illustrates that AI content moderation still isn’t ready for prime time.

So we just got notified by Facebook that the photo used for our Walla Walla Onion seed is "Overtly Sexual" and therefore cannot be advertised to be sold on their platform… Can you see it?

Bread in Subway's hot sandwiches contains too much sugar to meet Ireland's legal definition for bread, the country's Supreme Court has ruled.

A bag of potato chips is one of the cheapest snacks you can buy. Unless you opted for the extremely limited edition set of chips from Swedish Brewery St. Eriks, boxed in an absurdly fancy package, made from absurdly special ingredients. Created as a publicity stunt that also donated money to charity, the…

A social media stunt featuring watermelons sold from the trunk of a supercar ended with a fine. Turkish authorities have issued a statement saying the creative seller had violated traffic rules. The episode took place in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district on Wednesday and featured a man selling watermelons out…

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is forcing households in the capital, Pyongyang, to turn in their pet dogs to the government so that they may be sold to restaurants for human consumption amid a national food shortage.

A restaurant chain in southern China has issued a public apology for weighing diners before they entered the premises as part of a national campaign to reduce food waste.

Cuba's state news agency advertised the creation of groceries exclusively for people who donate blood to the regime, the Cuban-American site Babalú Blog reported Monday.

While the mango is known as the king of fruits in India, it is surely getting the royal treatment in Dubai, where the fruit is being delivered in a Lamborghini. Managing director of ‘Pakistan Supermarket’, Mohammad Jehanzeb, is delivering mangoes personally in own his vehicle as he believes that "the…