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Take one former rapper and star of "The Surreal Life," an obscure town in Middle America, and throw in a secret recipe for fried chicken, and what do you get? No, it's not another reality show -- it's, um, reality.

Former Public Enemy hype man Flavor Flav has opened the first of what he hopes will be "hundreds" of Flav's Fried Chicken restaurants in, of all places, Clinton, Iowa, as the town's paper, the Clinton Herald, reports.

No, wait -- it gets better.

"I don't want to be just known to have a spot," Flav reportedly told the Herald. "You're going to find me in here working. You're going to be catching me seasoning my chicken, flouring my chicken, frying up my chicken, and not only that, but serving my chicken to my people."

"My people"? Flav, this is Iowa; you're from Long Island.

I didn't even know that marijuana candy even existed in the first place, but apparently it does. Last week, supervisors of Alameda County in northern California banned the sale of it.

Parents in Castro Valley complained about the candy when they realized that it had become popular with high school students, especially when celebrities like Paris Hilton and rapper Snoop Dogg endorse the candy. Parents were concerned that the marijuana flavored candy will serve as a "gateway" to illegal drug usage later. The candy manufacturers say that there is no THC present in the candy, the active substance in marijuana.

The ordinance to ban passed 4-0.

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