Category Archives: Food

The Business Rent Is Too High: The Austin, TX Edition

Posted on June 26, 2019 by mikethemadbiologist

As part of our irregular series, we have another example of local businesses getting clobbered by massive rent increases, this time in Austin, TX (boldface mine): Just this week, Hut’s Hamburgers, in downtown Austin since 1969 (and on South Congress … Continue reading →

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The Business Rent Is Too Damn High

Posted on June 14, 2019 by mikethemadbiologist

While housing in many areas is too expensive, it’s worth remembering that business rents are also too damn high. Today’s example is the Sizzling Express in D.C.: Hang’s been getting a lot lately because after nearly 20 years as a … Continue reading →

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Crabs

Posted on October 11, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed at the Wharf, SW, D.C.:

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We Have Turned Oceans Into Deserts

Posted on August 30, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

At least when it comes to the macrofauna. Every year, Boston builds a fish weir: A fishweir is basically a large fence that is used to trap fish, which are then caught (usually scooped out of the water)… During the … Continue reading →

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The Rent Is Too Damn High: ‘Reinventing’ And Gentrifying Food

Posted on July 20, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Or as we point out often, you can’t have gentrification without a gentry. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Petula Dvorak observes this about D.C. (boldface mine): I visited a new Washington shop this week, a Temple of Cool so … Continue reading →

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The Oceans Might Not Be Suffering A Mass Extinction But The Carnage Is Awful

Posted on June 29, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Before I get to the oceans, I’ll describe something that Boston builds every year on the Boston Common: a fishweir. A fishweir is a fence used to catch fish. Believe it or not, it used to work: During the excavation … Continue reading →

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Chemical Saftey During The Reign Of Il Trumpe

Posted on May 19, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Only one month after the Trump administration liberated us from the horrors of pesticide regulation, this happened (boldface mine): On May 5, more than 50 farmworkers outside of Bakersfield, California, were exposed to a highly toxic pesticide that apparently drifted … Continue reading →

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I Have Seen The Future: It Has…

Posted on April 8, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

…six wheels and is adorable: There’s a company that is using these to deliver meals; when it arrives at your door, it sends you a text with a code allowing you to unlock the cargo hold of the robot and … Continue reading →

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Hiring Freezes Have Consequences: Enjoy That Burger

Posted on February 3, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Or salad (boldface mine): At the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the other federal agency primarily involved in food safety efforts, the federal hiring freeze imposed by the new administration is having an impact on the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS). … Continue reading →

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Prospective Bacterial Genomic Surveillance

Posted on September 20, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the things the evul federal gummint is gearing up to every food borne bacterial disease isolate that is sent to either the CDC or public health labs in what is known as the GenomeTrakr Network (I’ve heard this … Continue reading →

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