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This chart from the Center For Disease Control charts who different fast food offerings today are than they were in the days of drive-ins and local burger joints: H/T Brian Fung
Apparently, pretended overpriced pomegranate juice is a magic healing elixir is more than the law will allow.
From the Department of Stupid Laws: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again! Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer. Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels [...]
Movie theater snacks are expensive. This is not cause for a lawsuit.
Once again, a government entity thinks the average person is too dumb to take care of themselves.
Another meme debunked, plus some thoughts on policy.
YouGov’s Brand Index finds that Herman Cain’s candidacy has had an impact on how people of different political stripes view Godfather’s Pizza: Although Cain has not been the CEO for Godfather’s Pizza for 15 years, his prominent association to the brand, which has been replayed in the media since he began his campaign for the [...]
Andrew Sullivan passes on a link that notes the possibility of another commodity shortage that may soon hit the world: At the exact moment that rare beans are becoming all the rage, all beans are becoming rarer. The price of a cup of coffee—whether it be a $6 pour-over, a $2.50 dark roast at Starbucks, [...]
Twitter is abuzz with news that Congress has declared pizza to be a vegetable. It’s actually not news at all.
When it comes to pizza, Antonin Scalia is firmly in the New York camp: New York thin-crust versus Chicago’s deep-dish: It’s a historic battle between the Big Apple and the Windy City. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia picked his preferred pie Tuesday during a Chicago conference at Chicago-Kent School of Law, “ruling” that deep-dish [...]
French schoolchildren won’t be allowed to put ketchup on anything but French Fries anymore: First France built a wall around its language to protect it from pernicious Anglo-Saxon invaders. Now it is throwing up a shield against another perceived threat to its culture and civilization: ketchup. In an effort to promote healthful eating and, it [...]
The people at Hilton have weighed in on those $16 muffins that the Department of Justice supposedly paid for: Stung by an audit report this week that highlighted “$16 muffins” at a conference at the Capital Hilton in Washington, the hotel chain is fighting back, insisting the pricey pastries were not that expensive.. Hilton Worldwide [...]
Not surprisingly, people still order that big juicy cheeseburger even after being told it contains over 1,000 calories.
A new Georgia immigration law is causing serious problems for Georgia’s farmers.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has embarked on an interesting new diet: When he’s not too busy connecting people across the universe, Mark Zuckerberg is pursuing a new “personal challenge,” as he calls it. “The only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself,” says the Facebook founder and CEO. It’s an odd dietary direction [...]
According to a new study, daily coffee intake reduces the risk of prostate cancer: If that’s java in your cup, drink up. A new study says that men who are heavy coffee drinkers are at lower risk for prostate cancer. As part of the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, Harvard scientists followed 47,911 men who periodically [...]
A five year study in Europe determined that the costs of using nitrogen fertilizers significantly outweigh the benefits, costing billions of dollars worth of damage. Nitrogen pollution costs Europe between 70 and 320 billion euros ($100bn-$460bn) per year in its impact on health and the environment, according to a major European study launched in Britain [...]
Should kids be required to buy their lunch at school rather than bring whatever their parents might pack for them to eat?
We’ve been hearing about peak oil for years. But now some experts are warning of an even more serious crisis: Peak coffee.
We’re heading towards a future of higher food prices and more hunger.
I drink more coffee a month than the average person does a year. Indeed, I easily go through more than the 12 kilograms that represents the top end of the scale.
They’re from the government, and they’re here to take that tasty snack out of your hands.
Politico has the menu for President Obama’s Super Bowl party: Here, according to the White House, is the menu for Sunday’s party: “Bratwurst, Kielbasa, Cheeseburgers, Deep Dish Pizza, Buffalo Wings, German Potato Salad, Twice Baked Potatoes, Snyders Potato Chips and Pretzels, Chips and Dips, Salad, Ice Cream. Beverages including the following beers: Hinterland Pale Ale [...]
Stanton Peele finds an interesting tidbit in the recently revised Food And Drug Administration dietary guidelines: The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Monday. There weren’t many surprises in its recommendations to reduce fat and salt, eat whole grains, and cut the overall amount we eat. But here’s one [...]
The federal government’s newest dietary guidelines have finally stated that which has long been between the lines: Americans eat too damn much food.
That’s the take away from this particular story: Alabama law firm Beasley Allen has filed a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell that claims the chain is falsely calling its taco filling “seasoned beef” and “seasoned ground beef” when allegedly the mixture, which would be more properly called “Taco Meat Filling,” only contains 36% beef. [...]
Turns out it’s surprisingly easy to make: Baconmania is the Food Fad That Will Not Die, and, to be honest, I’m a little over bacon getting thrown all willy-nilly over everything. But, for these — crisp, crackly, chewy, just slightly caramelly and of course smoky, salty and fatty — for these I will stop playing [...]
