"Balls of dough are heated and shot out of a 'puffing gun' at hundreds of miles and hour." Yum, right? Well, yeah, of course:
The answer, of course, is Cheerios.
The iconic cereal, known by its distinctive yellow box, is 70 years old this year and still a force on the breakfast cereal market. One out of every eight boxes of cereal to leave the shelf in America carries the Cheerios name.
This is the oddest business-expansion story I've seen in a while:
BOONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana company that cooks hard-boiled eggs for restaurants, hospitals, universities and food manufacturers says its proposed $4 million expansion would allow it to become the world's top hard-boiled egg producer, turning out more than 1 million of the eggs a day.
For the "Robbing Peter to pay Paul does not butter Leo's bread" file:
Federal officials said Thursday that Indiana will be rewarded for having fewer errors in its food stamp program a year after the state was fined for making too many mistakes, including underpaying some food stamp recipients and overpaying others.
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I would never torture a puppy or strike a kitty or even say an unkind word to a hamster. But call me a heartless animal abuser, I've never really given much thought to the welfare of goldfish:
What is there to say? This is disappointing but not really surprising:
How is it that the party loudly proclaiming how the government shouldn't "pick winners and losers" could only manage to get 34 senators to oppose one of the most egregious examples of federal industrial policy?
I'm with you, man:
We don't have to turn our pork chops into rubber anymore:
Finally, the government agrees that pig should be pink. On the inside, at least.
New guidelines released Tuesday by the USDA
The food police take down a dangerous criminal enterprise:
A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it has gone to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm from selling its contraband to willing customers in the Washington area.
The product in question: unpasteurized milk.
Aww, man; now inflation is hitting me where I live:
That morning cup of coffee is going to cost you more.
Coffee prices are at a 34-year high — $3 a pound.
Yet coffee drinkers plan on grinding out the extra cash because they need that cup of Joe, CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports.
Me, too, I'm afraid. And I buy Dunkin' Donuts coffee, which is pricier than most anyway.
I've been hearing these annoying ads for the 5-Hour Energy drink on radio lately, going on and on about what a hassle coffee is -- you have to brew it or buy it, wait for it, fix it up and blah, blah, blah. But, instead, we could just be throwing down a shot of this booster and be good to go instantly, just like people do 7 million times a day! But I don't consider coffee a hassle -- it's a ritual, and I like my rituals. It makes a nice sound while it's brewing, and it smells wonderful.
