We are entertaining your favorite holiday sweets

Around DJ Central, that would be haystacks, also known as America’s Ugliest Candy.® I make ’em by the vatful, apologize for how freaky they look, and then collect compliments. I also make mountains of fudge (I’m making my 15th pound of it, as you read this). What goes over in your neck of the woods? I’m …

How much food do we throw out every year?

$640’s worth, according to an survey from last year. That’s roughly 16 percent of the food we buy each year, in the trash.

Turin’s becoming a vegetable city. Should your town, as well?

The new mayor of Turin, Chiara Appendino, is vowing to promote vegetarian and vegan diets. I am not a vegan, though I was for a while in my early 30s. Check out the map above. ‘Muricans sure like their meat.

The end of the world, Part 1

Mike the Heathen sends this, a news story about Mac N’ Cheetos, a Burger King confection that is  deep-fried macaroni and cheese sticks with Cheetos breading. From that link: To put it in old, worn-out meme terms, they heard you liked cheese, so they put cheese in their cheese. Also macaroni. Whatever. Personally, I’d rather lick …

When food theft isn’t a crime

Italy’s highest appeals court has ruled that if you’re hungry and homeless, stealing food isn’t a crime. One court watcher said the decision to dismiss the case of a man who took some sausage and cheese from a grocery store seemed to rest on… an Italian legal doctrine: “Ad impossibilia nemo tenetur.” The term is …

TrusTED says: Let’s bring fatty crap back to ‘Murica’s lunchrooms

Because I couldn’t find the channel changer, I watched Ted Cruz (stop what you’re doing, and go here now) tell a screaming Indianapolis rally that when his wife, Heidi, is First Lady, there’ll be French fries back in school lunchrooms. This is not the first time he’s said such a thing. He said “French,” not …

In which we express our sadness over Bacon’s evil nature

You knew it already, right? But here’s the latest on what ingesting Bacon (and hot dogs and other processed meats) can do to you.

Let’s play the factory farm game!

In honor of World Food Day (that’s today, and thanks, Cynical, for the reminder), let’s play Factory Farm! It’s new (kind of)! It’s gross! It’s thought-provoking! And it comes with real, live, fake-block-animals!

Americans on SNAP don’t eat well

Check out what, according to the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, poor people eat, as opposed to the rest of us. You’ll notice the information comes from  the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The study says: …food stamp program participants, though they might be managing to muster as many calories as everyone else, are putting food on …

Consumer demand did not create California’s drought

As pointed out here, at ThinkProgress and here, at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, the fact that you like avocados (or almonds, or any of the host of crops grown in the Golden State) has nothing to do with that state’s drought. (And that’s despite what features such as this one would have you believe.) …