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LOVECRAFTIAN FAST FOOD REVIEW

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery, living mound lumbering against it. It shall not find me! God, that gravy! The window! The window!
The Bowl At The Howling Rim Of Famous-Ity (Patton Oswalt)
Thanks, Ignatz!

EXTREME VEGETARIAN FESTIVAL

Weak stomach? Do not click.

RADIO: CLIMATE AND FOOD PRODUCTION

Recommended listening, if you live on Earth. (It’s about half an hour long.)

You can’t see it and you can’t feel it, but ozone, one of the greenhouse gases associated with climate change, is causing a decrease of 20% to the soya crop in the United States of America.
Soya is the second biggest crop in the […]

NEVER FORGET YOUR CHOPSTICKS

Chopstick bra promises cleavage and conservation (Reuters)
There is video.

PHOSPHORESCENT FOOD

“We don’t hear a lot of complaints about glowing seafood, but then people rarely look at their shrimp and crab in the dark.”
—Andy Richards, seafood department manager, West Seattle Thriftway
Bonus: 1998 FDA article on glowing seafood

AMERICANS WHO EAT: PLEASE READ

We would not need all these nutrition programs if the commodity title didn’t do such a good job making junk food and fast food so ubiquitous and cheap. Food stamps are crucial, surely, but they will be spent on processed rather than real food as long as the commodity title makes calories of fat and […]

WELCOME TO MY BRAIN

I happened to see a photo of a lemon trifle, and that triggered a “Savoy Truffle” earworm.

DEPT. OF UNNECESSARY INNOVATIONS

Caffeinated potato chips (via Strange New Products)

BLUE EGGS

Eggs of this nature were first seen by missionaries in South America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but it is not widely known that the history of blue eggs in the Cotswolds stretches back as far as the 1920’s, when botanist and explorer, Mr. Clarence Elliott, who toured the world collecting rare plants, brought […]

CHIQUITA’S BLOODY BANANAS

The Bush administration was pulled in competing directions, perhaps because its desire to avoid undermining a newly elected, friendly Colombian government conflicted with its frequent public assertions that supporting a terrorist group anywhere constitutes a criminal offense and a foreign policy mistake.
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The attorney general of Colombia, Mario Iguaran, and other Colombian officials have dismissed Chiquita’s […]