Monday, December 10, 2007
Strange News from the Food Front (12/10/07)
A weekly round-up of food and drink oddities:
- Please, Sir, May I Have Some More? Two part-time cooks at a Japanese restaurant chain were suspended when company officials figured out that they were the ones that posted on YouTube a video showing them ladling a mini-mountain of beef onto a bowl of rice. (AP)
- Speecy Spicy Meatball A counter-terrorism cop, fired for failing a drug test, says it was becasue his wife spiked some meatballs with marijuana. Pot luck supper, anyone? (AP)
- Hock-Kosher? A store decided to advertise ham as a perfect meal for Hanukkah. (AP)
- The Unreal Thing A man was arrested for selling generic cola syrup as Coca-Cola branded product. (AP)
- Pillsbury Dour Boy General Mills has decided to come down hard on Potsdam, NY residents that held an annual "bake-off" for the past decade to help a local food pantry. The company says that it owns the word and is the only one that can use it. Undoubtedly somewhere a head of corporate PR is beating his or her head against a wall. (NPR)
