It’s official… Some ‘mama and papa’ pizzeria owners will get a small break on the price of ‘Pizza Mozzarella’ starting this month. But, as lottery ticket and contest rules small print always cautions, “Certain conditions and limitations apply’…Read More →
What’s round and flat and decorated all over the top with cheese, pepperoni, bacon and olives? Till now, it could only be your favourite pizza, fresh from the oven (or pizzeria delivery bag)… But, now, it could also be a the latest hot movie release on DVD!Read More →
We’ve recently offered a number of posts, here in the FFB, which mention nutrition profiles and labeling regulations. The profiles make good reading, but they can be deceptive. How? You have to check the serving size quoted on the label and calculate equivalent numbers accordingly.Read More →
What would you do if you made a globally beloved product, the only one of its kind, no competition, and a faithful customer put up a positively worshipful website that drew tens of thousands of followers and friends? If you’re the makers of Nutella, you’d tell ’em to cease and desist.Read More →
We’ve said it before, but now a new learned study confirms that restaurant food is a major contributor to the so-called obesity epidemic that’s plaguing the Western World. The University of Toronto study found that even non-fast-food restaurant meals are amazingly high in calories.Read More →
We’ve all had our differences with restauranteurs over something we’ve been served. Usually, when we find a hair in the soup or a bug in the salad. But a celebrity chef on the swanky German resort island of Sylt was apparently beaten to death earlier this week over a plate of fried noodles.Read More →
You’ve probably heard of the smuggling tunnels from Egypt into the heavily sequestered Gaza Strip. They’re generally used to bring people in and out of the zone and to bring in building materials, basic food commodities and other highly desirable goods – now including American style fried chicken!Read More →
If it wasn’t bad enough that coffee industry watchers were predicting the extinction of java fans’ beloved Arabica strain later in this century (due to climate change), now another scourge is threatening that plant in Central America, source of a lot of our ‘better’ coffee.Read More →