Monday, October 08, 2007
Strange News from the Food Front (10/8/07)
A weekly round-up of food and drink oddities:
- No Naked Lunch A Greenville, ME restaurant is getting into trouble over a promotion: a free sandwich (nicknamed the skinny dip) to anyone willing to plunge en naturale from the establishment's dock into the lake behind it. (AP)
- Don't Drink and Trim Police pulled over a man in West Virginia for drinking while driving - a rider lawnmower. (AP)
- Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Owners of the stadium where the Cincinnati Bengals play had been looking for permission to shoot pigeons. Apparently the birds had been dropping deposits into the drinks of patrons. Given that it's major league baseball, wouldn't an extra charge for a clean drink been more appropriate? (AP)
- Professional Cooking Pot The founder of a California factory that made a line of food stuffs all laced with marijuana faces federal drug charges. Talk about making your customers happy. (AP)
- Gritty Contest The wave of competitive eating competitions continues the first World Grits Eating Championship. A chef from Chicago ate 21 pounds of the stuff in 10 minutes. (AP)
Labels: drinking, driving, grits, lawnmower, marijuana, pigeons, skinny dip, weird
