We’ve long had a quantitative handle on how good or bad for us packaged and processed foods are for our bodies. It’s led to prominent posting of ingredient lists and nutrition ‘ratings’ on packages. Reliable enviro-impact enviro-labelling may be next…
While I was researching yesterday’s Musings post, I ran across a History Of The Invention Of The Potato Chip. It came up on the first page of returns for a Google search that was otherwise waist-deep in ‘Street Food’ territory…
I always like to see what various self-appointed experts and scientific survey organizations have to say when they issue ‘Most Popular Foods’ lists. What I’m most interested in is, do they agree on the menu item choices and rankings?
A little bit of everything in this edition of Fast Food Week! New treats, bevs, and flavours. PLUS: Lay’s does summer Flavour Swap, Krispy Kreme rides gas prices, McDonald’s celebrates return to school with syllabus-themed deals, and Doritos does Canadian Flavours…
The ‘Tip’ option is showing up on more and more credit card transaction machines these days. But many of the new requests to activate ‘Tip’ are coming from vendors whose operations haven’t traditionally encouraged tipping. That’s called Tip Creep…
Just a squib about a really good prank a French scientist pulled on his colleagues and the public recently. The underlying motive for the gag was apparently to deflate some of the mega-hype surrounding the new James Webb Space Telescope…