I came across a great segment that was on the Today Show.
Did you know certain menus are designed to make you order what the restaurant wants you to order?  That’s the idea behind menu engineering.  The design of the menu plays a psychological role in what foods we order.  Ever wonder why you sometimes never [...]

I just came across this article about cold medicine being found in boxes of Smarties in southern Ontario.  A young girl discovered a Dayquil pill inside a sealed box of Smarties.  There are also 4 other cases of the same instance.  The source of the medicine has not been found and the Smarties manufacturer have [...]

Out of the 35 largest food retailers in America, the top 10 were selected by a panel of experts. The criteria was based on produce freshness, taste of prepared foods, healthiness of packaged goods, and availability of supplemental nutritional information. The list comes from Health magazine.
1. Whole Foods
2. Safeway
3. Harris Teeter
4. Trader Joe’s
5. Hannaford
6. Albertsons
7. [...]

Well,  I just got back from casting my vote.  I didn’t anticipate there being a line to vote in my small town, especially at six in the morning.  If you’ve already registered, go vote.
Now onto some rather, unappetizing news.
Bruce Van Dyne, an IBM executive in North Carolina, dicovered a little something extra in his hot [...]

Even though I don’t count calories when I eat, I unnderstand that there are others out there who are concerned with their daily caloric intake. When popular snack foods started to come out in 100 hundred calorie snack pack alternatives, I thought that it was a smart move. It sent the message that you don’t [...]

Here’s an interesting Today Show segment from this morning.

In South Los Angeles, 73% of the restauarants are fast food. The convenience of these foods, which is causing unhealthy weight and health problems has led the City Council to approve a moratorium to ban fast food for a year. This is done in hope that residents will seek healthier food alternatives and [...]

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Sushi is “in” these days. As amateur sushi chefs and home cooks are handling more and more sushi on a daily basis, it is drawing concern from the international sushi committee that there isn’t enough communication or awareness on how to properly handle and prepare raw fish.
A lack of experience and training [...]

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I came across a slide show of the twenty worse foods in America and I had to share this with you all.
20. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips from McDonalds (5pcs)
19. Jamba Juice Chocolate Moo’d Power Smoothie (30 fl oz)
18. Pepperidge Farm Roasted Chicken Pot Pie (whole pie)
17. Ruby [...]

Bags of Pokemon Valentine’s Day lollipops tainted with metal shards have spurred a mass removal of the product from store shelves.  From the article there was no mentioning of any kids getting hurt from this.  Thank goodness.
AP via msnbc.com