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Japanese Printing Company Makes Edible Notepads, Coffee Flavored Pens
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With these notepads and pens, you'll never suffer from a lack of snacks at work meetings again. Instead, you can take your own notes and eat them too.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. You know when you're in a meeting trying to focus but your stomach keeps rumbling because you're hungry? A Japanese company has a discreet solution, snacking on your notepad. The printing company made paper edible. It even offers markers with coffee-flavored ink to kick that bland paper taste. The product gives a new meaning to the phrase working lunch. Although, hopefully, you did not write down anything you actually needed to remember. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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