The F.D.A. (Food & Drug Administration) is set to ‘ban’ the sale of raw oysters from the Gulf Coast as food items, unless they’re treated in a manner which many experts conclude alters or destroys their unique taste.
What I want to know is, why? The ‘potentially deadly bacteria’ that the F.D.A. says is the problem [...]
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London researchers release anti-organic propagandized study.
Posted in Environment, Food & Wine, Pop Culture, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, rant, tagged Organic, Organic Foods on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have conducted a ’study’ that claims they found no nutritional or health benefits to eating ‘organic’ food, as opposed to ‘ordinary’ food. The researchers stated that consumers were paying higher prices for organic-labeled foods because of a perceived health benefit, creating a global organic market [...]
To Pepsi: Make ‘Throwback’ a permanent product!
Posted in Food & Wine, Pop Culture, TV & Film, news, rant, tagged Cola, Jones, Pepsi, Throwback on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been looking for ‘Pepsi’ and ‘Mountain Dew’ versions of Throwback for weeks. Not finding anything, I go to the web. Here, I find out they are officially only doing this for a limited distribution. What that means, is a few weeks, not everywhere.
To the ‘good’ folks at Pepsi, I’d like to inform you [...]
Brazilian Prosecutor tries to regulate fattening food.
Posted in Food & Wine, Pop Culture, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, politics, rant, tagged Abuse of Power, Brazil, Burger King, fast food, Law, McDonald's, Sao Paolo on June 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Marcio Schusterschitz, a federal prosecutor for Sao Paolo state in Brazil, is claiming that when fast-food restaurants offer promotional toys with kids’ meals, they encourage bad eating habits. His story is that when children see ‘toys’ in with their food, they form ‘emotional associations’ that can make them life-long abusers of fattening and unhealthy foods. [...]
Subway: The Walmart of the fast food industry.
Posted in Food & Wine, Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, news, rant, tagged fast food, Scam, Scams, Subway on May 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Always low prices. Always. (Except on what they decide to sell for higher prices.) That’s the part in parentheses that Walmart doesn’t put in their commercials. Same with Subway. Not too long ago, they marketed *ANY* footlong sandwich as being a mere $5.00, and it’s fraud. Sure, corporate lawyers would spin a tale about ‘fine [...]
Quizno’s has delivery!
Posted in Food & Wine, Pop Culture, TV & Film, rant, tagged Community, Community Support, Quizno's, Subway on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
*Cue the Jingle*
“Four..Four Dollar…Four Dollar Fifteen-Inch-Longs…”
That’s right, folks. Subway has been flashing their $5 footlong crap in our faces for months, and it’s not that great of a deal. Quizno’s has come out with the ‘Torpedo’, a (roughly, I think?) 15-inch sandwich, available with several ingredient combinations, to the tune of $4. That is a [...]
Bias Watch: Cornell University marketing professor defends brand-name foods.
Posted in Food & Wine, Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, news, rant on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cornell University, under the direction of marketing professor Brian Wansink, conducted a study supposedly focused on how classic recipes have changed over the years. However, they seemed to point their study at one particular cookbook, “Joy of Cooking”, published by Scribner.
Their explanation, was that “Joy of Cooking” has been around since the 1930’s and regularly [...]
Fad Diets, or “fad cures”?
Posted in Food & Wine, Pop Culture, rant on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve probably all tried one or more types of fad diet over the years. They come and go, hence fad. Some are helpful, some harmful, some are in-between. Some are invented by con-artists who will sell you “special” food plans for ludicrous amounts of money. Some will even insist that for the diet to “work”, [...]
The least helpful “Take-Out Menu” ever made.
Posted in Food & Wine, Pop Culture, rant, tagged Subway on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Subway’s “Take-Out Menu” has a wonderful selection of items. It goes into naming some of their sandwiches, reminding you that you can get them as a salad or a wrap, even telling you about some of the breads and ingredients that go into their sandwiches.
However, anyone who has been inside a Subway, knows that there [...]
Subway, why do you suck?
Posted in Food & Wine, Pop Culture, rant, tagged sandwich, sub sandwich, Subway on June 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been patient. I’ve given them every opportunity to make my mouth happy. But, my mouth isn’t happy. It’s not happy one tiny bit. Here’s why. Just as I usually do, I ordered one of their sandwiches. In this instance, the ‘Steak and Cheese’. The photos looked inviting, as they usually do, and as is [...]
