The ‘Short Squeeze’ is a tactic the stock-savvy sometimes use to boost the price of shares in a company that’s not doing so well. After such a squeeze recently, Beyond Meat shares rose 1,300 percent – for a day, at least… Was it a meme event or a pump-and-dump?Read More →
Starbuck’s is offering a bear-shaped cup as a Holiday merchandise item. But the move backfired when the ‘collectible’ went viral, triggering long lines, fights and $300 online resale asks. Just adding to the coffee shop’s recent troubles…Read More →
We’re all aware of the strict Italian Denomin-azione d’Origine Protetta (Protected Desig-nation of Origin) laws for foods. Now, Italian lawmakers are up in arms about a ‘fake’ Car-bonara Sauce being marketed across the EU by a Belgian company…Read More →
As faithful followers will have guessed, I’m a big movie fan. One of my all-time fave flics is The Shawshank Redemption. But I discovered there was a lot I didn’t know about the aca-demy-award-winning film when I came across a post at Explored Planet (EP) the other day…Read More →
US President Donald Trump told reporters during a scrum on Airforce One last week, told reporters he’s single-handedly lowered the price of food by as much as 25 percent. Trump also renamed the traditional Thanksgiving ‘fixings’ to ‘surroundings’.Read More →
Duane Roberts passed away this past week. He is credited with inventing the world’s first-ever mass-marketed frozen burrito. Roberts was just a teenager when he began his career, working at his parents’ meat company, Butcher Boy Food Products Inc.Read More →
It’s truly a mixed bag in this week’s Fast Food rundown! And we have entries in every cate-gory… The overall theme is Christmassy Green and Red – even if one green item is a Dill Pickle lovers’ convention in Texas. And the Grinch has also shown up…Read More →
Last Friday, US President Donald Trump told reporters he had made major inroads on his campaign promise – since echoed many times in his public addresses – to lower food prices. But observers say, his ‘plan’ to achieve that doesn’t make sense…Read More →