Tag Archives: food

Kraft Issues Statement On Rainbow Oreo

“We are excited to illustrate what is making history today in a fun and playful way. Kraft Foods has a proud history of celebrating diversity and inclusiveness. We feel the OREO ad is a fun reflection of our values. There has been a lot of buzz about the image, and it shows how relevant OREO is to people even after …

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It’s National Donut Day

Bloomberg wants your Big Gulp but he didn’t mind issuing a proclamation recognizing today as National Donut Day.

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NYC Vs Philly

Is everybody buying this? Via Gothamist.

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Ice Cream Burger

It’s a thing.

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AFA Versus Campell Soup

The American Family Association is now gunning for Campbell Soup due to their sponsorship of Philadelphia’s Equality Forum, which takes place this weekend. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania’s Diane Gramley [left] says the company has “tainted its clean-cut image.” “Equality Forum is a homosexual event that glorifies same-sex ‘marriage,’ is going to have a panel discussion on how homosexuals …

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Nutella Loses “Healthy” Lawsuit

Slimy gelatinous not-chocolate muck Nutella has lost the class-action lawsuit filed against it for claiming it was a healthy food item. In fact, one serving’s ingredients are “comparable to a Three Musketeers bar.” “Defendant’s claims regarding Nutella are also false and misleading because they omit that Nutella contains over 55 percent processed sugar, the consumption of which has been shown …

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Mad Cow Case Found In California

The nation’s fourth-ever case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been found in California. The carcass was at a Baker Commodities Inc. rendering facility in Hanford, California, according to Executive Vice President Dennis Luckey. The company renders animal byproducts and had randomly selected the animal for testing last Wednesday, he said. “We are in the business of removing dead animals from …

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NYC’s Street Meat Festival: May 6th

I’m totally going to this. The Vendy Awards and New Amsterdam Market proudly present the inaugural International Meats Local, New York’s first sustainable street meat event. The event will welcome back five of the Vendy’s most beloved vendors to participate in a unique and challenging experiment. Using humanely raised meats and other regionally sourced ingredients, vendors will reproduce their most …

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Hot Dog Stuffed Pizza

It’s real. From Pizza Hut.

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There’s A Mayonnaise Store In Brooklyn

It just opened and seriously, that’s all they sell. A store selling only artisanal flavored mayonnaise opened on Sunday in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, adding another notch to the borough’s bedpost of pretentiousness. It’s called Empire Mayonnaise, it’s not a joke (in fact, we knew it was coming), and inside you’ll find flavored mayos like White Truffle, Black …

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50 Is The New 40

The price of an average steak dinner has edged past $50 in many of Manhattan’s busiest steakhouses. “Beef is taking another price leap now. It’s in short supply and difficult to get,” Michael Lomonaco, chef and managing partner at Porter House New York, told Crain’s. His restaurant has been charging more than $50 for a year; the cowboy ribeye goes …

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CA Considers Anti-Food Truck Bill

The California Assembly is considering a bill that would ban food trucks from parking within 1500 feet of a public school. Opponents argue that such a quarter-mile rule would effectively ban the trucks from densely-populated cities like San Francisco. The state law applies to elementary schools as well as middle schools and high schools, and that doesn’t make sense,” Wiener …

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NYC Gym Vs. Paula Deen

Copyranter says this New York Sports Club ad is “fucking tasteless.”

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Immigration Crackdown Hurts Farmers

Garsh, who could have predicted this? It’s unclear whether farmers in Georgia and Alabama will face a shortage of workers due to tough new laws targeting illegal immigration, but some producers said they have begun changing their plans for planting and harvesting this year’s crops. Some farmers said they might reduce the number of acres they plant or shift to …

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Afternoon View – Go 99 Pizza

Thanks to the economy, New York City has seen a spate of dollar-per-slice pizza joints spring up. This one opened last summer on the Upper East Side. Plain cheese is 99 cents. Anything fancier is two or three bucks. I had one plain, purely for the bloggerly aspect. Not bad at all. Reviews on Yelp are pretty good too.

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Hostess Files For Bankruptcy

Hostess Brands has filed Chapter 11 for the second time. The privately held Irving, Texas, company, which employs roughly 19,000 people and carries more than $860 million in debt, has been facing a cash squeeze amid high labor costs and rising prices for sugar, flour and other ingredients, according to people familiar with the matter. Those costs together have proved …

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Macarons: Manhattan’s Cupcake 2.0

This morning I wandered over to Ladurée, the latest Manhattan rage where New Yorkers are at this moment lined up down the block on a corner of Madison Avenue also anchored by Tom Ford, Juicy Couture, and Prada. Lined up for cookies. Even though the shop is quite close to where I live, I’d never heard of the Paris-based chain …

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REPORT: Most-Effective Diets

1. DASH Diet2. TLC Diet3. Weight Watchers3. Mayo Clinic Diet3. Mediterranean Diet6. Volumetrics Diet7. Jenny Craig Diet8. Biggest Loser Diet8. Ornish Diet10. Vegetarian Diet Right on time for your resolution considerations, US News & World Report has ranked the 25 most-popular diets in terms of their effectiveness, health risk/benefits, and ease of compliance. The top-ranked DASH plan is the federally …

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Evening View – El Siboney

It’s almost worth the trek to Key West just for the bistec pallomilla at El Siboney. No visit is complete without at least one pilgrimage.

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Clam Chowder Doritos

I’d probably try this. I tried shrimp-flavored potato chips. (Not good.)

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