Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on food delivery companies such as Uber Eats and Door Dash to cut their commissions in areas where dine-in services at restaurants have once again been curtailed due to the COVID-19 crisis. The idea is to help both house-bound consumers and restaurants survive…Read More →
Amid the COVID-19 resurgence and other decidedly negative health stories comes at least one snippet of good news: The consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) in the U.S. dropped sharply between 2003 and 2016. Which means public health initiatives in the early 2000s have worked…Read More →
Subway has new Chicken Strip Subs and SONIC is bringing back its popular Garlic Butter Bun Dressing on a new Bacon Burger. And a host of other hand-snack purveyors are offering new, or refreshed treats for the coming holiday season… They’ve seen the future, and it is not, exactly, COVID-19 free…Read More →
We’ve mentioned this phenomenon previously, but specifically in reference to on e kind of retail container: The omni-present Aluminum Beverage Can. Now, we hear that at least one other type of food container is getting hard to find. Hint: Did you plant a ‘victory garden’ this summer?Read More →
Well, here’s a headache in waiting for you, especially if you’re one of those folks who wait all year for Hallowe’en to come round and make a bigger deal about it than you do Thanksgiving or some other holidays I won’t refer to by name to avoid opening up what could evolve into a ugly ‘debate’…Read More →
This morning, I came across a current story about a kid in the UK who would only eat Sausages. He was 15 years old and had eaten nothing but Sausages since being weaned off milk as an infant. Okay, he would occasionally eat Fries and a couple of other foods, too, but only if they were accompanied by Sausages…Read More →