snakes on a plate
The decomposed snake head that a Clifton Park, NY man discovered in his side portion of broccoli has reached the end of its strange, unappetizing journey—for now. Since Consumerist
broke the story back in May, there have been no leads.
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gross
Lab tests are back on the side dish serpent an upstate New York man found on his plate at T.G.I. Friday's (a story we broke,
with pictures). The snake wasn't cooked with the broccoli. It wasn't cooked at all.
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unacceptable food
The bloggers that noticed the "tiny faces on
broccoli" and shared their discovery with the world (
click here to catch up with the horror), have decided to do a little investigative journalism. They contacted the company that photoshopped the little faces onto their broccoli package and got a response. It seems that the tiny faces are a tradition that is now on the chopping block...
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weights and measures
Walmart received an $89,705 fine after the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection found
280 weights and measures violations at nine Walmart stores. The gargantuan retailer failed to subtract the weight of packaging materials, or "tare weight," when pricing bulk items like coffee,
broccoli, and sweet potatoes.
Judy Cardin, section chief for weights and measures with the state, said that in the case of bulk coffee, the weight of the packaging materials was included when the price of the product was determined. The state had tested one-pound bags of Cameron brand coffee beans, which were found to be 3/100ths of a pound over the actual bagged content.
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