Monday, July 23, 2007
Strange News from the Food Front (7/23/07)
A weekly round-up of food and drink oddities:
- A-pealing Deposit Oregan financial institution Umpqua Bank is offering kids a kit and start-up capital to run lemonade stands. And with a certificate of deposit, I'm sure you'll get the monopolistic version. (NYT, et. al.)
- No Slaggard There - Any More A Swedish chef made a meal of the Spanish slug. Must have elicited ewws and ahs. (Independent Online)
- Crime Pays in Fast Food Bags of uneaten fast food (and a heaping pile of cash) helped clue police that they had pulled over counterfeiters, who were paying for snacks with fake $100 bills. A suggested punishment? Eating everything they bought. (AP)
- Fake Cardboard-Filled Buns The story I ran last week (along with the rest of creation) about the cardboard-filled pork buns in Beijing was apparently a hoax. Or is that what they want you to believe? The pork is out there. (Reuters)
- Fox Tries to Bite Man A wild fox chased people into and around a Maryland steak house. (AP)
- Zoo Story An eastern German mayor has filed charges against zoo workers for shooting some of the animals and selling them as meat. Think the ad for zebra steaks gave them away? (Reuters)
- Next Time, Drink and Drive The town of Newmarket, Canada, fined a man for overnight parking when he was trying to avoid driving after a few glasses of wine. That's teach him - next time he can weave home like everyone else. (Toronto Sun)
