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Fancy Restaurant Offers Edible Helium Balloons

February 17, 2012 in balloon, dessert, fancy, i believe i can fly i believe i can touch the sky think about it every night and day sneak into wonka's bubble room and float away, i just want to know how much it costs so i can scoff and go on with my life, i'm watching my girlish figure, iffy, so after eating it are you lighter or what?, sure why not, that doesn't sound very filling, video, weight watchers

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Seen here the exact moment he realizes they replaced the helium with nerve gas, a man huffs an edible dessert balloon at Alinea in Chicago. You know, because that's a real thing now. God, whatever happened to f***ing cake? First of all, a regular rubber balloon is also edible provided you don't mind blowing it up with your b-hole the day after and scaring yourself off the shitter when it explodes. Secondly, you remember those funny-smelling balloons you used to make with a little straw and the goo in the metal tube? I used to eat those all the time. But enough bragging, I have a voice so deep it would take a balloon the size of a Macy's Thanksgiving Day float to make me sound like a regular man. 'God voice' they like to call me. "Nobody calls you that." Start now?

Hit the jump for a video of the balloon being made and consumed.

Watch the Chefs at Alinea Make an Edible Helium Balloon [eater]

Thanks to Mih0, who's cool with a piece of apple cobbler.

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  • Guest

    During the "Happy Hour" they should use Nitrous oxide. :D

  • rikster81

    DUMB RICH PEOPLE!!

  • carstenso

    The geek version of blue-fin tuna then?

    http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

  • carstenso

    The geeky version of blue-fin Tuna then?

    http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

  • Cool to try, not cool to satisfy my sweet tooth needs -_- ...

  • I just don't see this satisfying my sweet tooth.

  • Lee McMillan

    That is actual shit. I mean, where the fuck is my tiramisu??

  • lorobird

    looks quite fun actually!

  • I'll take this and a doritos taco, provided the balloon is also around $1.29

  • Nathan Mitson

    I inhaled a taun taun once.

  • Jadis

    this would be an awesome first date. -_0

  • Matt Anderson

    GW, I love you so much. Please never stop writing =D

  • Don't these idiots know that helium is in short supply and we need it all for cool stuff like electromagnets and lasers and stuff?

  • n_a_a_s

    big god damn deal....   who gives a crap about helium unless you're at your friends' 13th birthday party?  If they offered nitrous or what a west coast vaporizer can do, that'd be another story - but helium?  You're better off buying a dozen whip cream canisters & having a left hand party in the closet

  • Isn't helium dangerous when inhaled? Or is that when you have too much helium that it's dangerous?

  • Tony S

    Its very similar in composition to Oxygen so the body is tricked and does not automatically struggle for breath. Game Over.

  • n_a_a_s

      no, it's barium that's dangerous to inhale

  • Carbon monoxide is also dangerous to inhale.

  • carbon monoxide balloons... that would be a good prank to pull at this restaurant. 

  • n_a_a_s

     hehehehe, yeah it would

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