Monday, July 30, 2007
Strange News from the Food Front (7/30/07)
A weekly round-up of food and drink oddities:
- How Big Is the Hamburger? H.J. Heinz is helping with a school fundraiser in Collinsville, Ill., home to the world's largest ketchup bottle, by creating an 8-foot tall ketchup packet that will hold an estimated 1,500 hundred gallons of red goop that they company hopes will go into the Guiness Book of World Records as the largest ketchup packet. Someone's going to have messy fingers from opening it. (Press Release)
- RotCam The Winn Meat Company, promoting its dry-aged beef line, set up a web cam trained on steak that sits in controlled temperature and humidity for 21 days. At least when you watch grass grow it eventually does something. (Company Web Site
- I Thought You Were Grabbing the Butter A romantically-linked pair of bank robbers grabbed a bag of dinner rolls instead of a bag of bank notes and one accidentally shot the other. At the Cuckoo Restaurant. (Independent Online)
- What Did You Call Me? A Taiwanese waitress is suing a co-worker for nicknaming her "Looking for Death." He was wrong - it should have been "Looking for Lump Sum." (Ananova)
- Killer Jumbo Squid Make that hungry jumbo squid. In a poor takeoff on grade B movies, giant squid are entering the waters of California and eating commercial fish like anchovies. No news about requests for dough, cheese, tomato sauce, and pepperoni. (AP)
- Don't Drink the Yellow Water An Indonesian maid in Hong Kong got six days in jail for giving her boss a cup of water with urine in it. It was all a mistake, she said. Yup, those cups look so much like toilets. (Reuters)
- Be Glad He Wasn't Cutting Onions Four teens trying to rob a restaurant went running out when the 70-year-old cook started swearing up a storm and waving her spatula at them. (NBC10.com)
Labels: aged, catsup, Heinz, ketchup, packet, steak, weird, Winn
