Award Show 2007

Academy Awards

Feb. 22, 2007 | 10:30 AM EST

Swag So Good You Can (Almost) Taste It

Photo by: Frank Swertlow

As the swag action intensified, PEOPLE.com's freebie heap more than doubled in value and in bulk overnight, though the base had to be expanded at the cost altitude (such is the geology of Swag Mountain). That said, the haul was incredible: everything from salt that doesn't flavor to soy you can't eat to shirts that talk to you. Here goes:

• Nothing gets between me and my ... soy? As we scoured the Oscar suites, we expected many things, but the $24 pair of men's gray "comfort trunks" – made of 95 percent soy fiber – at the Haven Suites in the Hollywood Hills gave us pause. Made by a company called 2(x)ist (sound it out) the trunks are billed as "environmentally friendly" and have a "more luxurious feel than cashmere." But no, they're not edible.

• Also at the Haven Suites: Nonni's Toffee Almond biscotti with a T-shirt in the box, and Pearls of Wisdom offered a shirt reading "Never Say Never," though other slogans were available.

• It was swag of Biblical proportions at the Silver Spoon suite at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where Ahave offered Dead Sea salt products to renew and heal the body. There were also fuzzy slippers from Kumi Kookoon and non-giveaway jewelry designed by Elizabeth Taylor.

Yesterday's haul: Barbie scales Swag Mountain!

Check back later to see just how high Swag Mountain grows.