I have a suggestion that came in initially as a joke from sister Erin. Are you and your kids bored to death with the usual lunchtime dishes you’ve falling into a pattern of making since the COVID-19 stay-home regimen was mandated? Try exposing them to some of your childhood faves…Read More →
We’ve often heard about learned studies and legislative attempts to control the conventional advertising of Junk Food and other unhealthy stuff to children. But a new large scale study of advertising on YouTube videos has revealed that companies have shifted their efforts to the Internet…Read More →
I woke this morning feeling an uncomfortable chill – more the kind that comes from one of those unexplainable, creepy intuitions we all get once in a while than the sort resulting from any concrete, palpable cause. But I was wrong. About half an inch / 1.25 cm of fresh snow had crept in overnight…Read More →
Burger King has released some artists’ concept pictures of what its new store designs will look like – and it appears that the new designs focus on incorporating permanently some of the central ideas behind the hastily-concocted contact-free anti-COVID-19 features now in use to beat the pandemic…Read More →
It used to be that you could count the new items on the medical / nutrition / food news wires on the f1ngers of one hand. Now, for some reason, they’re coming thick and fast. Not all scream for their own solo post, but many smaller topics demand our attention nevertheless…Read More →
This weeks FFW Report features a mid-season fall revamp of some major players’ change-ups in their classic menu items. Wendy’s, Papa John’s, and Taco Bell check in. And Burger King / Tim Horton’s announces a market test of new re-usable food and beverage containers.Read More →
A recent survey revealed that Canadians are generally in favour of incorporating more locally-grown food in their diets, but won’t pay more to get it. ‘Why?’ asked agrifood experts at Dalhousie University researchers in Halifax. Dr. Obvious says that, in our hearts, we all know why…Read More →
I had to think more than once this morning when I came across a full-page colour ad in my daily paper posing the reader stark challenge: ‘Picture life without restaurants’. I couldn’t. So I went on to the small print and as I read I realized the ad was based on a false premise…Read More →