ust in time for Valentine's Day, Chinese restaurants are offering customers a fresh new take on an old staple: the potato. The latest culinary fad is called the Purple Orchid Three potato, which due to a mutation while aboard a space mission, turned the vegetables purple in color and slightly sweet in taste.

Every time we go to swanky restaurants and pay hefty prices for the food we order, we often think how good it would be if we were to choose the prices ourselves. Now a unique coffee shop in Kirkland offers you this opportunity as it doesn't have any price listed on the menu. Yes you heard it right - no prices on the menu, as customers at Terra Bite Lounge pay whatever they like, or not at all. The employees at the coffee shop are also instructed not to be biased to anyone or show any difference in their service towards those who don't pay or pay very less in the unique metal box that is placed there.

New York City Hall will soon release a branded official city condom to encourage its use. Currently, the city distributes 1. 5 million free condoms monthly in ordinary wrappers. Plans are in place to implement a distinctive package design for the city's official condom, be it a subway themed one with the lines shown in different colors.

In a bid to reduce drunk driving during the holidays, police are distributing pint glasses embedded with the logo of the Bennington Police Department to bars and restaurants. The glasses, police believe will remind those intoxicated of police presence and possibly help them control their alcohol intake. According to AP reports, T. J. Carmody, owner of Carmody's restaurant, which recieved three cases of the glasses last week said, ''It should give awareness to people and make them pay attention a little more. "

Until December 31, restrooms fit for a queen will be open to the public in Times Square to promote Charmin Toilet Paper. The new complex is furnished with individual stalls, each with their own theme like Wall Street or Times Square. It also boasts a fancy waiting room with plush couches, flat screen televisions, a fire place and a kid's dance floor.