Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Strange News from the Food Front (12/8/2008)
A weekly round-up of food and drink oddities:
- Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime (Or Ten) New Yorkers are tipping less, and that's tough on the restaurant crowd. (New York Magazine)
- Drink and Watch Someone has come out with a combination beer tap and LCD television. All it needs is a fridge. (Engadget)
- Double Points for Side Dish Cooking titles (you can fillet a fish on one, oh joy, or rapture) are popping out for game consoles. (Washington Post)
- Soup and Shawl A temporary Manhattan store selling independent designer lines is also serving soup. (AP)
- Free Market Coffee A libertarian, barrista, and contributor to Crispy on the Outside considers the economic and aesthetic implications of Starbucks. (Doublethink Online)
- One Hump or Two? Australians are being told to eat camels to stop global warming. No, I can't make this up. (AFP)
- Did You Check Your Pockets? The Moroccan subsidiary of McDonald's had to apologize for distributing maps, as part of a Happy Meal, that didn't show Western Sahara. (AFP)
