French fries in Germany could be significantly shorter this year due to the heatwave that has baked Germany and much of Europe this month, the German Farmers’ Association (DBV) said on Friday. Hot and dry weather has led to a meager harvest of extra-large potatoes used to produce the ideal-length French fry. “The French fries industry [...]
June 17, 2010
Neil Caldwell is not revealing the secret behind how he was able to create bacons in bold new colors like red, blue and purple, but I suspect it has something to do with food coloring. The amazing thing is that the slices of porcine heaven retain their color even after frying. Ever had trouble getting [...]
June 16, 2010
Over the past year, the Ada County Library in Boise, Idaho, has been hit with more than 10 incidents of strange but serious vandalism. And each time, the vandalism has involved CONDIMENTS. One time it was a book that was filled with ketchup, and another time, a bunch of kids’ books were drenched in corn syrup. And [...]
June 3, 2010
A New Zealand funeral home has stepped in to stop a fake mourner who was attending up to four funerals a week to stock up on food, even filling up tupperware containers to take home, according to media reports. Harbour City Funeral Home director Danny Langstraat told local newspaper The Dominion Post that the “grim [...]
June 2, 2010
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — An Australian kookaburra bird is undergoing personal training after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages. The kookaburra got into trouble with her weight when residents at a Sydney park began feeding her sausages at barbecues. The porky kookaburra weighed in at 565 grams (1.2 pounds), nearly 40 [...]
May 11, 2010
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has said a restaurant or two in New York City is serving a dish called san-nakji (live octopus). The story was first reported by the New York Daily according to UPI. PETA has been picketing the restaurants and issued letters to legal authorities about the alleged practice. Some say that [...]
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