photo from kfc.com Update, Sept. 23rd; ‘KFC Executive [Yum! Brands President Roger Eaton] Denies He Is Favoring Grilled Products Over Crispy Chicken‘ – Bloomberg In this post I’m combining news from this week with information I’ve previously posted. As time goes on, the current management at KFC is deviating further and further from Col. Harland […]
Category: Food In The News
Milk Prices: The Disgusting Truth
BlogsMonroe’s Emiie at the 2008 Monroe County Fair. No, she’s not the disgusting part … sheesh … Over on BlogsMonroe this evening, Elephant Ear pal and fellow blogger Emiie is lamenting about the price of milk at the Monroe Public Schools: Monroe Public charges 50 cents for a carton of milk. So I’m sending in $2.50 […]
Keep Your Religion Away From My Alcohol!
I probably risk losing readers with this one, but frankly if your opinion differs, feel free to let me know in a comment. Open and honest discussion is a cool thing. Oh, in the image to the left is a bottle of Pear and Its Spirit, a wonderful pear brandy from Black Star Farms Bed & […]
Strong Comments on Local and Global Food Safety, Part 4
“Uncle Dave, are we there yet?” In Part 1 of this multi-part series (maybe we’re finally at the end), I laid out some of what I felt is wrong with food safety issues in this country. In Part 2, I looked at a few of the differences between the U.S. and just a couple other […]
Strong Comments on Local and Global Food Safety, Part 3
In Part 1 of this multi-part series (that may really never end), I laid out some of what I felt is wrong with food safety issues in this country. In Part 2, I looked at a few of the differences between the U.S. and just a couple other countries with respect to food safety. In this part, […]
Strong Comments on Local and Global Food Safety, Part 2
In Part 1 of this multi-part series (that may never end), I laid out some of what I felt is wrong with food safety issues in this country. But what about other countries? Here’s Chef Anthony Bourdain in a Paris restaurant, from No Reservations on the Travel channel: It’s a common traveler’s dilemma. You hear about […]
Strong Comments on Local and Global Food Safety, Part 1
Yesterday, the Toledo Blade published an editorial titled “Food for Thought“. One sentence of this editorial rather accurately describes the current administration’s inadequacy in this area: It was a rich irony, and perfectly indicative of the government’s failure to adequately confront this issue, that on the same day that President Bush announced a new panel on […]
Street Eats Gone Wild! Well… kinda sorta… not…
I have a beef about how street food vendors are treated on this continent. This entry is a long one, but by the end, I think you’ll understand. Yesterday the CBC reported that street vendors in the Ontario province can now expand beyond what’s usually found at the food carts. From the article: Health Minister […]