For lovers of Ball Park Nachos and all forms of quick-and-easy Cheesy Melts, the next week or so may be a major trial of patience and perseverance. Kraft reports a more-serious-than-usual seasonal shortage of its perennial, hallmark favourite – Velveeta Process Cheese Food…Read More →
Can you guess which popular, common foods will cost a lot more by the end of 2014? Some are foods that already increased sharply in price last year. And some are newcomers to the rapidly growing list of foods that are quickly evolving from staples to luxuries…Read More →
Talk about Food Flops of 2013! A recent online blog post on that topic pegged the short-lived McDonalds brainwave, Mighty Wings, as the third worst idea/product on its list. But that may be the least of the fast food giant’s problems with the product that wing lovers failed to flock to…Read More →
Okay… They call them trends… I call most of them fads. Trends mark a change in the way we, as a society behave. Fads come and go in a few months, or even weeks. I predict that most of the ‘trends’ noted by Yahoo! in a recent post will go the way of the Cupcake…Read More →
Even those of us (a growing majority) who don’t smoke are well aware of the humongous health warnings on tobacco product packages. Cigarettes cause cancer and all sorts of horrible diseases. Now, there’s a push on to have similar warnings placed on booze labels.Read More →
You’ll probably have heard about people who’ve experimented with feeding fermented silage to livestock – even beer, itself, in the case of at least one ‘artisan’ Pork producer – claiming the alcohol makes the meat sweeter, juicier and more tender. Well, there’s now a guy trying it with Turkeys…Read More →
Here we go again. A new round of industry surveys and public opinion polls has revealed that an increasing number of Pop fans are abandoning diet soft drinks. It seems that many people still believe artificially-sweetened fizzy drinks are unsafe, in spite of a flood of solid medical studies to the contrary.Read More →
You’ve no doubt heard about all the medical school studies showing that nuts – nuts of all kinds – are good for you and can actually reduce your chance of suffering some diseases. Now, you can add cancer to the list of dreaded conditions that nuts may save you from…Read More →