Category Archives: Food

Because What Back Bay Really Needs Is Another Fucking Cupcake Store

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

Observed on Newbury Street between Berkeley and Clarendon in Back Bay, Boston: There are already two Sweet cupcake stores in Back Bay, along with two ‘food’–that is, cupcakes–trucks that show up five days every week. Just in case you can’t … Continue reading →

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Dinner Time

Posted on May 13, 2012 by

Since it’s Mother’s Day, this observation about family time by Jill at Feministe struck home (and is probably familiar to more than a few readers): Dinnertime conversation isn’t something I ever thought about until I was midway through college and … Continue reading →

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ZOMG!! TEH E KOLI R IN UR CHICKENZ!! BARGLE BARGLE!!

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

The NY Times recently had a story about a study by a pro-vegan medical group which claimed that 48 percent of chickens bought at supermarkets are contaminated with E. coli. Of course, the vegan group referred to the E. coli … Continue reading →

Posted in E. coli, Food, Propaganda, Public Health | 9 Comments

How Pink Slime Stopped Being Dog Food and Wound Up in Your Burger

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

One of the many weird things about blogging is that you’ll never know what takes off. My pink slime post about beef filler that contains ammonia has been one of my all-time most read posts. But what I didn’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Food, Public Health

Are Deer the Reservoir for Shiga-Toxinogenic E. coli (STEC)?

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

THIS IS THE FACE OF THE ENEMY! (from here) A recent paper in Applied and Environment Microbiology describes the frequency of STEC–Shiga toxin producing E. coli–in wild animals. STEC can cause organ failure and death and are found throughout E. … Continue reading →

Posted in E. coli, Food, Microbiology, Public Health

Elitist Republicans Are Now Attacking Lower Income Whites

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

When Charles Murray published his latest tract, Coming Apart, I wondered if conservatives would buy into it, since it attacks the values and ethics of ‘real Americans’: It’s odd: Murray’s famous book, The Bell Curve, argued–and Murray has continued to … Continue reading →

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If I Were a Hacker, I Would Figure Out How to Get This Quote Onto Starbucks’ Coffee Cups

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Not that I endorse criminal behavior, but I really can’t imagine Chief Sitting Bull as a Starbucks customer: Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, … Continue reading →

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Food and the Unstable Middle-Class

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

A post by Nina Lincoff which has been making the rounds notes that fast-food eating isn’t a poor habit, but a lower-middle and middle-class habit: It’s trendy to blame fast food for the alarming obesity rate among poor Americans. But … Continue reading →

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The Hungry Muppet: Our National Shame

Posted on October 8, 2011 by

(Reuters/Sesame Workshop; from here) No nation with a shred of decency would allow so many of its children to live in poverty such that this story could be anything other than parody (it’s not): A new poverty-stricken Muppet will highlight … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic Human Decency, Food, Hunger

Supermarkets and Humility (With Blast From the Past Video!)

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

At my local supermarket, they installed self-service checkout. At times, this can be really frustrating, since people don’t seem to know how to use them quickly. So I found this story interesting: A Massachusetts-based supermarket chain is doing away with … Continue reading →

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