【Dear Utol (2025): Catfish Episode 46】

For the Fourth of July,Dear Utol (2025): Catfish Episode 46 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").

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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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Follow the on-screen instructions and, well, play ball against a team of peanuts while trying not to get too hungry.

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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).

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And, for even further fun, here's a collection of initial character sketches shared by Google.

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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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