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food safety
Dunkin Donuts Pulls Hot Chocolate, Dunkaccinos Over Salmonella Scare
Dunkin Donuts is stopping sales of its hot chocolate and Dunkaccino products because one of its milk supplier, Plainview Milk Products Cooperative, found salmonella on some of its equipment. DD says they haven't found any contamination in any of their products but wanted to be safe. We're glad to see a company being proactive about food safety and we're glad to see testing uncover contamination before any illnesses were reported, but still, pathogens in cookie dough and hot chocolate is just mean. More » -
meals
Eat Out And Save
Eating out is one of the fastest ways to burn a hole through your wallet, but with a few tips from Five Cent Nickel, you can still enjoy a good meal without breaking the bank. More » -
your health
100% All Natural Plumped Chickens Are Stuffed With Water And Salt
Do you like overpaying for salt and water? Then "100% All Natural" chicken breasts might be for you! Just look for the labels that boast "enhanced with up to 15% chicken broth," and you can be sure you're overpaying for the saltiest, most water-logged chicken that industrial food processors can design. So how does all that chicken water get into the chickens, you ask? Hit the jump for the delightfully graphic description... More » -
above and beyond
Bacon Love Story: A Man, A Dream, A Salted Meat
Brooke's husband, like many sensible people, loves bacon. As a gift, she bought him a subscription to the Bacon of the Month Club. For a few months, they received fantastic bacon and whimsical bacon-related merchandise through the mail, just as promised. Then, suddenly, things went awry in mail-order bacon paradise. More » -
money-saving advice
Feed Your Family For $5 A Meal Without Going To Taco Bell
As Oregon Trail teaches us, the easiest way to save a buck on meals for your family is by clicking "meager" every time during meals until someone dies of scurvy and there's more freshly-killed oxen meat to go around. More » -
mysteries
How Did E. Coli Get Into Nestle's Cookie Dough?
USA Today is reporting that the FDA is "stumped" by the presence of E. coli 0157:H7 in Nestle Tollhouse Cookie Dough, which was recalled last week. How does bacteria normally associated with raw ground beef find its way into our buckets of delicious cookie dough? Some speculation, inside. More » -
health
Former FDA Head Says Food Manufacturers Use Sugar, Salt, And Fat To Short Circuit The Brain's Reward System
Do you have trouble resisting the urge to scarf down that cookie/candy bar/entree? Maybe it's because somewhere upstream, experts spent lots of time and money manipulating the ingredients to deliver the consumer to a "bliss point," suggests former FDA head Dr. David A. Kessler. His book "The End of Overeating" looks at how modern food has been designed to be as irresistible and satisfying as possible. More » -
recession watch
Farmers Slaughtering Dairy Cows Rather Than Lose Money Producing Milk
It's so expensive to produce milk right now — due to low demand and high feed costs — that farmers are being paid to slaughter dairy cows in order to "shift the pain to consumers," says Bloomberg. More » -
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grocery shrink ray
Oh, Popchips, Say It Isn't So!
A little over a week ago, we brought to you a heart-warming tale of good publicity, free stuff, and tasty snacks from PopChips. Lurking in our files, though, was evidence that Popchips have been savagely zapped by the Grocery Shrink Ray. More » -
rebranding
Pizza Hut Tries To Avoid Blame For Its Pizza, Shortens Name To "The Hut"
Update: To clarify, Pizza Hut isn't changing its name. It's co-adopting "The Hut" is a secondary branding mark, or something like that. (Thanks to William!) More » -
noooooo
Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough Full Of E. Coli, FDA Warns
The FDA is advising consumers who have purchased any variety of Nestle Toll House prepackaged, refrigerated cookie dough to throw it away or return it for a refund, due to risk of contamination with E. coli bacteria. At least 25 people have been hospitalized since March.
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confusing
Chimichangas Are 20 For $10, Limit 5. What?
Reader Len is a little confused. To be honest, so are we. More » -
food safety
Grocery Store Just Can't Stop Selling Expired Yogurt
Esther doesn't want much. She just wants to buy some yogurt that hasn't expired. It seems that's too much to ask of her local Safeway near Baltimore. More » -
The Buca di Beppo manager whose firing sparked a staff walkout and community outrage last October has opened his own restaurant and hired his former employees.
Fired in October, Restaurant Manager Opens His Own Place [AZ Central]
(Thanks Mark!)
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cutting out the middle man
More People Are Getting Their Food Straight From Farms
Farmers markets aren't just for dirty hippies anymore. Everyone's starting to catch on to food straight off the farm, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service. More » -
health
Don't Put Too Much Faith In Fortified Foods
The Wall Street Journal points out that fortified foods—yogurt with probiotics, pasta with calcium, orange juice with omega-3 fatty acid—have exploded into a $30+ billion a year industry, but
that doesn't mean they're good replacements for unprocessed foods.
More »"Processing destroys nutrients, and the more processing there is, the more destruction you get," says Marion Nestle, author and professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. "Fortification adds back some nutrients, so overall you're better off with a processed fortified food than a processed unfortified one. But a whole food is always going to be superior."
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disabilities
White Castle Refuses To Serve Electric Scooter Rider Via Drive-Through
A White Castle in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a 24-hour establishment, but it locks its dining room doors at 11 pm. Unfortunately, its drive-through service is restricted to customers in cars, so the employees refused to serve a 37-year-old woman who pulled up on an electric mobility scooter. Now she says she's madder than fish grease, which is pretty mad, and she wants to sue them for discriminating against customers who can't drive. More » -
nutrition
National Menu Labeling Law Moves Closer To Reality
As states continue to adopt laws requiring chain restaurants to include nutritional information on menus, Congress has been considering proposals for a national menu-labeling law. This week, members of Congress, the restaurant industry, and consumer groups reached agreement on a proposal that they hope to introduce this summer.
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