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Play with your food!
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A little baseball with your food?Credit: Google
For the Fourth of July, Google wants you to play with your food.
The newest Google Doodle lets you play baseball, that classic American pastime, with a bunch of "characters" based on our nation's favorite foods. They include a hot dog ("H-Dog"), popcorn ("Power Pop"), and a corn on the cob ("Cobbra").
Quite the lineup, at the ballpark or the barbecue.Credit: Google
You can play on desktop or on mobile. After a brief intro, you get to start swinging away with a random food character.
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Take me out to the Doooooooodle....Credit: Google
Follow the on-screen instructions and, well, play ball against a team of peanuts while trying not to get too hungry.
Big Pretzel EnergyCredit: Google
Here's what all the fun looks like on mobile, though the person who thinks of celery as a great American snack food clearly has a hidden agenda (unless, of course, we're talking in a Bloody Mary).
Celery swings for the fences.Credit: Google
And, for even further fun, here's a collection of initial character sketches shared by Google.
Enjoy the old school feel of these Doodle character sketches.Credit: Google
If you're going to while away the holiday on your phone, you might as well be smacking homers with a sirloin steak.
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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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