Fried Chicken A Cultural Appropriation?
Yep. It’s true. Fried Chicken, so solidly connected with the U.S. south in song and story, was actually invented somewhere else. Somewhere far away from Kentucky. Somewhere way north of Kentucky. I didn’t believe it when I first heard it. But additional research proved the claim true!Read More →
A New Fat Tax Imposed WHERE?
Believe it or not, an Indian State (like a U.S. State or Canadian Province) is imposing a Fat Tax on retail foods and restaurants. It’s a response to the global obesity epidemic to which, evidently, India is not immune. Predictably, the hardest-hit edibles are Pizza, Burgers and Junk Food in general…Read More →
Canadian Entrepreneurs Pioneer Insect Farming
It had to happen, in the face of rising prices for conventional foods and the resultant need for the average consumer to source alternative food sources. But I still can’t get my head around eating insects. i know. they’re just tiny little animals, not unlike cows and pigs and sheep,Read More →
Canadian Food Prices Coming Down?
We wish. And, now, an overview of current conditions in the Food market (pun intended) seem to indicate that they will. Soon. However… I see things differently. I think, based on my own experience with life, that prices may just stay high but stabilize. And that will be bad in the long run…Read More →
Loblaws Presses Suppliers For Lower Prices
Consumers have been changing their food shopping habits over the past year or so, since Meat and Produce prices went sky high. That’s been hard on supermarket proprietors who’ve seen profits decline as folks buy less Meat and cheaper brands of everything else. What to do?Read More →
Figuring Out The YEMMies…
There’s a new consumer demographic in play these days. It goes by yet another catchy moniker. You’ve heard of the Boomers, the Gen-Xers, the Gen-Yers and the Millenniels. They all have their own peculiar likes and dislikes. But now there’s a new challenge for marketers: the YEMMies…Read More →
McDonald’s Franchisee Fires HIV+ Employee
Here’s a question for everyone who uses services provided directly by people – restaurant cooks or servers, doctors, nurses, dentists, physical therapists and so on. How would you react if someone in personal contact with you or your food was found to be HIV positive? McD’s panicked…Read More →
UK Carrot Stick Kafuffle Goes Viral
You’d think that, with Brexit and all, the Brits would have more important things to tweet and post on Facebook about. But, NO! A recent tweet protesting the grossly irregular sizes and shapes of one man’s bag of Carrot Sticks has taken the Internet by storm. Foodies take note!Read More →