Read a little. Learn a lot. • Tightly-written news, views and stuff • Follow us on Twitter • Be a Facebook Fan • Tumble us!

13 Jul 2010 12:28

tags

U.S.: FYI: Salsa or guacamole + low standards = Food poisoning

  • 1 out of every 25 outbreaks since 1998 is due to the zesty dips source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

04 Jul 2010 17:51

tags

Offbeat: Hot Dog Eating Contest: Meet the jerks who wouldn’t let Kobayashi eat

These dudes run Major League Eating, which popularized the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and is now forcing exclusive contracts on its eaters. Lame. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

22 Jun 2010 10:44

tags

U.S.: “Eat fresh” questionable slogan for Subway in salmonella outbreak

  • 97 people sickened from an Illinois outbreak; no deaths yet source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

09 Jun 2010 10:17

tags

Biz: BPA: It lines your cans of Campbell’s Soup, and may cause cancer

Like soup, do ya? You’ll like it even more – along with Diet Coke and any other canned food – when you realize it contains BPA, a possible carcinogen. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

04 Jun 2010 14:02

tags

Offbeat: Dude starts crashing funerals just to get the finger-food

  • Certainly he had a backpack with some tupperware containers so when people weren’t looking, he was stocking up.
  • Harbour City (New Zealand) Funeral Home director Danny Langstraa • Regarding a man who had apparently been going to as many as four funerals a week just to nosh on the food. The man, in his 40s, clearly did not know any of the deceased whose funerals he showed up for in March and April. If this sounds like a subject ripe for a movie parody, Will Ferrell has already done it in “Wedding Crashers” – as an wedding-crash expert who had recently started crashing funerals. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

30 May 2010 11:11

tags

Biz: Salt really unhealthy, but it makes so many foods taste so good!

  • Salt really changes the way that your tongue will taste the product. You make one little change and something that was a complementary flavor now starts to stand out and become objectionable.
  • Kellogg vice president and food scientist John Kepplinger • On why he sees salt as a key ingredient for processed food. The New York Times wrote this massive, impressive exposé on the fight to limit salt in processed food. As part of it, Kepplinger prepared a bunch of foods without the salt, and among other things, Cheez-Its, which are loaded with salt normally, tasted absolutely awful. Processed foods and restaurant meals now account for 80 percent of all the salt that people eat nowadays, something some politicians are trying to limit. They say it could save as many as 150,000 lives per year. As well as make crackers taste like cardboard. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

28 May 2010 19:31

tags

Biz: Indulgent burger joints like Five Guys apparently recession-proof

  • Five guys: The presidential sealBoth Barack and Michele Obama have been seen noshing on burgers from Five Guys, the 600-strong national chain that prides itself in really good burgers and fries. Too good in fact, some might argue.
     

    Part of a larger trendEven though Fuddruckers is in the midst of a bankruptcy and the economy in general is tanking, Five Guys is reflecting a trend towards bigger, better burgers. In fact, it’s one of the only growing segments of the restaurant industry. Maybe McDonald’s should consider bringing back the Arch Deluxe. source

Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink
 

25 May 2010 20:45

tags

Biz: Three foods WebMD says that you should avoid, fattie

  • 1,500 number of calories in a large order of Five Guys’ fries – even more than the bacon cheeseburger
  • 1,670 number of calories in The Cheesecake Factory’s Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake
  • 1,820 number of calories in P.F. Chang’s Double Pan-Fried Noodles Combo; wowza source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

16 May 2010 12:02

tags

U.S.: Some people paralyzed by food allergies they don’t really have

Yeah, some people are allergic to peanuts, but a new study suggests that some people often freak out over food allergies they don’t actually have. In other words, they’re nuts. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

28 Apr 2010 20:30

tags

Biz: McDonald’s not very happy with Santa Clara County right now

  • What happened?Santa Clara County, Calif., decided they had enough of the Happy Meal convincing kids to eat crappy food by teasing them with a cheap toy, so they banned selling crappy food with toys inside. “This ordinance breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes,” the county supervisor claimed.

    healthy food excluded The ordinance really only limits restaurants from giving away toys with crappy food. If your meal has less than 485 calories, 600 milligrams of sodium, 35 percent of calories from fat and 10 percent of calories from sugar, you’re golden.

    Grace period Restaurants have a little over 100 days to make changes to their menus. source

Posted by Ernie Smith • 1 Comment • Permalink
 
<< newer 
top tags
older >>