Consumers – literally – consumed more than $1.7 billion (with a B) worth of hot dogs last year. And that’s not counting the ones they bought at restaurants, food trucks, street carts and sports venue concessions. Even so, that’s a drop of 3 per cent from the year before. What’s going on?Read More →
You paid just a nickel, or ‘slug’, as the vernacular of the day had it, for this Depression-busting, ‘burger’ which stretched a Diner’s available meat farther than most of us today can imagine. And, in spite of being composed mainly of fillers, it’s remembered fondly…Read More →
Seems a Pennsylvania mother who ate a Poppy Seed Bagel shortly before she gave birth tested positive for opiate drugs on a routine post-delivery urine screen and had her newborn taken from her by child welfare agents without explanation!Read More →
The Paula Deen Scandal – let’s call it ‘Buttergate’ – spreads its ugly tentacles ever wider with each passing day, as new and shocking revelations come one after the other. The latest: Paula Deen was threatened by an extortionist over the court case that started the whole ‘N’-word mess…Read More →
Oh, man! Oh, man! Oh, man! This is the lowest trick ever! Apparently, many foodies and wannabes, and poseurs… Invite friends and folks they want to impress to their homes for a ‘home-made’ gourmet dinner – which they actually buy in from top-notch caterers!Read More →
Wow! The fallout from Paula Deen’s casual admission, in a statement released earlier this week, that she long ago used the ‘N’ word, just keeps coming. Seems nobody wants to stand by the old dear in her time of peril. Well… It’s often been said that paranoia, like the Plague, is highly contagious!Read More →
Seems there’s always some Chicken left over, whether you roast it yourself or get a rotisserie bird from the supermarket or deli. And there’s always lots of Turkey left over from those family feasts we all enjoy so much. So… What do you do for an encore?Read More →
Paula Deen, the self-proclaimed Queen of Southern Cuisine, has been dropped by the Food Network. She apparently made some racist and/or sexist remarks… But, “It’s been a very long time…” And what older Southern person hasn’t, at some time of their life? So much for being transparently honest.Read More →