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 →
A consortium of senior Canadian medical and health groups has come out united in favour of banning junk food ads that target children. That includes not only fast food but sugary cereals, beverages and other processed foods. Understandably, some manufacturers will be upset.Read More →
McDonalds has announced it is discontinuing its popular third-pound Angus Burger – at least in the U.S. The reason? The company can’t pass on the recent steep increases in beef prices to customers and stay competitive in its ferociously competitive market.Read More →
A popular food blog associated with Yahoo! News this week published the results of a taste test, by two noted foodies, of five different mega-brand spreadable margarines. The tasters then dared to compare margarine and butter!Read More →