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Stephen Colbert remains dedicated to exposing the absurdity of the food world in his "Thought for Food" segments on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." This week he's taking on bacon: namely, the new bacon cologne we told you about last week, and Denny's infamous maple bacon sundae (our lukewarm review is here). Colbert's assessment of the sundae is typically wry: "Finally, an answer to the question 'What if we scraped the breakfast dishes into the freezer instead of the garbage?'"

He also says he's now one step closer to the American dream: Being bacon.

Watch the whole video at Comedy Central.

"Are those the ingredients or did the Pringles man take a dump in an ice cream machine?" Oh, Stephen Colbert, you never disappoint. Colbert's ribbing was directed at his late-night rival Jimmy Fallon last night after Ben & Jerry's announced the arrival of a Fallon-inspired flavor: Late Night Snack. Why should Colbert care? Because he's got his own horse in the race: AmeriCone Dream.

Late Night Snack was unveiled Wednesday, and while we were at the studio to taste test it, we decided it was our duty to declare a winner in this late-night ice cream war. Hours before Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert duked it out on "The Colbert Report," we were diving into two gallons of each flavor at AOL headquarters -- all of our NYC employees to were invited to vote.

Our results? AmeriCone Dream: 39 vs. Late Night Snack: 24. Now we're asking you. Based on the descriptions of each ice cream below, which ice cream would you rather eat? Take our poll after the jump!

AmeriCone Dream: Vanilla Ice Cream with Fudge Covered Waffle Cone Pieces & a Caramel Swirl

Late Night Snack: Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with a Salty Caramel Swirl & Fudge Covered Potato Chip Clusters

How do you disguise the fact that your chicken wings aren't wings at all? Just change the spelling from "wings" to "wyngz" and the government won't mind a bit. Stephen Colbert went after DiGiorno's "Pizza and Boneless Wyngz" combos during a "Thought for Food" segment on his show, "The Colbert Report," earlier this week, accusing the company of using the bizarre spelling to cover up the fact that the chicken wasn't wing meat. Turns out he was right. The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service posted about it: "The FSIS allows the use of the term 'wyngz' to denote a product that is in the shape of a wing or a bite-size appetizer type product under the following conditions." Conditions? Here are just a few: The poultry has to be white chicken, the product can't contain any wing meat, and no other misspellings are permitted. Yeah, one horrible misspelling is probably enough in this case.

Read the full story at Consumer Reports.

Miracle Whip is going after Stephen Colbert, after the Comedy Central star made fun of its "Don't Be So Mayo" ad campaign.

The condiment company has purportedly purchased every commercial during Thursday's "Colbert Report" and taken out an open-letter newspaper ad to Colbert saying "we will dominate the airspace on your show ... we will own you."

This comes after Colbert "pop[ped] open a jar of mayo whup-ass" during his Oct. 15 show.

Crispycone, the snack slowly finding its way into U.S. markets, has caught the attention of Stephen Colbert, who both sang its praises while demonizing the food in a recent "Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger" segment on his show, "The Colbert Report."

"Crispycones you are the greatest food in the world!" Colbert said in the Oct. 15 episode. "Which is why I'm giving a wag of my finger to Crispycones."

Check out this Crispycone post to find out more.