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Food porn, NY Times college cafeteria edition; blowing rhetorical chunks
Why do people no longer read newspapers? Because despite flashes of brilliance, the quality control just isn’t there anymore with all the slashed budgets and too few people. The New York Times today...
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Most Philadelphia school cafeterias flunk – Health Dept
More than half of the schools in the Philadelphia School District – 53 percent – failed their most recent health inspection, according to state Department of Agriculture records, while a staggering 66...
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Honey laundering: sweet and sickly
Honey’s in everything. Check out any bakery product, sauce, processed food. A little dab of nectar makes anything smoother. Toronto’s Globe and Mail ran a great feature a few days ago about the...
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University students plan cafeteria boycott after health violations
Big tip of the hat to the students at New York’s Pace University and a Colbert wag of the finger to Lackmann Culinary Services, which runs the school cafeteria, and was closed after health inspectors...
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Fake health inspector phones Des Moines restaurant, talks to real inspector
There’s been a spate of health inspector scams preying on restaurants throughout the U.S. in the past five years. From handwashing signs for cash to extorting fake inspection fees, the fake inspector...
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Statistics for food safety at 2012 Olympics
The world’s first comprehensive, automated outbreak detection system which will monitor over 3,000 infections and is ready to run during Olympics 2012, was developed by a researcher at The Open...
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Philosophy, food and schnapps: Herring recalled because of Clostridium in Canada
I still have fond memories of a misspent youth building houses in the summer, drinking schnapps, eating pickled herring, and talking philosophy with my Danish mentor, John. He was also a great dancer....
View ArticleGodfather Therapy – Saturday Night Live
I go to therapy every Friday. It’s a commitment, and I like the people, who are like the group session on the original Bob Newhart show. But I can’t help thinking of this when I’m there.
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10 Million pounds of poop stranded in Alabama railway sparks outrage in...
It’s the poop train that wouldn’t leave. Charleston Lim of Inquisitr reports that in the small rural town of Parrish, Alabama, several train cars carrying tons of human waste have been stranded for...
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