Sampler Platter: bacon popcorn, useless kitchen appliances, Pabst brewery for sale

--You think they’ve put bacon in everything, then you discover bacon popcorn! Uncrate--20 of the world’s most useless kitchen appliances. Restyle Your Kitchen--Gather your pennies, hipsters. Pabst Brewing Co. is for sale. New York Post--Husband leaves his wife after she forces him to eat cake for every meal. Metro--40 chefs under 40, only one from L.A.: Matt Molina (#38), Mozza executive chef. MNN--Kiss My Bundt needs to sell 5,000 mini-bundt cakes in the next few weeks to stay open.--The wackiest Chinese knockoffs. ‘Nalencia’ oranges? Yum. Business Insider--A photographic ode to the po’boy. New York Times--Costco bans Coca-Cola due to pricing dispute. Consumerist--Wine DJ iPhone app, which helps you pair music with vino, launches.--Berkeley cracks down on Cupkates truck. California Taco Trucks--First it’s pumpkins, now an Eggo shortage. Signs of the end times? Google--Food Court LA becoming Spacecraft-designed gastropub? Blackburn + Sweetzer --Squash blossom quesadillas on the Gold Line. 99 Cent Chef--MillerCoors contributes $500,000 to water education. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel--’Eating Animals,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s new pro-vegetarian book, gets a mostly positive review from the Los Angeles Times and a meh one from the New York Times.