"lost" news and stories

Many creative dishes were served at viewing parties across the land for last night's epic Lost series finale (our friends at TV Squad noshed on "Desmond Hume-mus" and "Jacob and Man in Black & White Cookies"), but we think the best themed dish of the evening came from this blogger, The Jello Mold Mistress of Brooklyn.

Rather than making food inspired by the characters or recreating the castaways' meals, the Mistress served up a jello representation of The Island, complete with different colors (and flavors) to mark the jungle and mountainous terrain, the sandy beach, and the vast, dark blue water.

The pistachio-coconut-blueberry mold is appropriately tropical in honor of The Island itself (the series was taped in Hawaii), and we think it earns bonus points for its ability to better withstand the pool of streaming tears the emotional episode evoked than, say, a plate of cookies.

The Wienermobile in Hawaii on July 5. Photo: hawaii/Flickr

One of our favorite bloggers, Jorge Garcia of "Lost," recently wrote a dispatch from the island about the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile washing up in Hawaii. Unfortunately, the orange-and-yellow hot-dog vehicle has upset some in the nation's 50th State.

An environmental group called the Outdoor Circle says the Wienermobile's visit violated a state ban on vehicular advertising, according to reports.

Bob Loy, the group's spokesman, told the Honolulu Advertiser that Outdoor Circle received about a dozen complaints from residents of Oahu about the 27-foot-long vehicle's visit.

"The Wienermobile is cute. It's got an attractive quality to it. I think anyone would agree with that, and that is part of the insidious nature of advertising," Loy told the paper. "It appears to be one thing, when in fact it's another."

Oscar Mayer isn't having it.

I'm not sure how many of you Slashfoodies are fans of ABC's Lost (new episode tonight at 9pm), but there are some pretty devoted fans out there. As the photo on the right will prove.

It's a cake for the show made by USA Today reader "amypro." Pretty impressive. Not sure if the Oceanic plane is edible or not.

It's not the only Lost-related food items at the link above. Fans of the show made other food products for various Lost parties around the country. Check out the Dharma goods!

I've never seen a single episode of the show, but if you're big Lost fan, you can click over to eBay and make a bid on Apollo Candy Bars. The candy bars that are eaten by the plane crash survivors and being dropped in mysterious food shipments to the island. The candy bars sell for $10 to $60.

The auctions are part of ABC's marketing campaign for Inside the Experience, which is a Web-based virtual world. Lost fans who acquire a bar "are instructed to take a picture of themselves holding the wrapper and upload it to a 'Lost Experience' site." Additionally, there are "Golden Oracle" bars included with the regular candy bars. If you get an oracle bars, you can upload a code from the wrapper. According to the site, when enough fans have uploaded the oracle codes, a mysterious character named Persephone will reveal more "revelations."