The overreaction continues:
McDonald's Corp, the world's biggest restaurant chain, has pulled raw sliced tomatoes from its sandwiches and has no immediate plans to bring them back.
There goes my Big N' Tasty. Never mind that only a few types of tomatoes from a few areas are suspect; let's just get rid of all of them of all types from every state in the union from all restaurants and supermarkets.
Oh, well, natural fear reaction, I suppose.
Yeah, and they taste worse, too:
McDonald's french fries are now trans-fat-free in all its restaurants in the United States and Canada, the fast-food restaurant chain said Thursday.
Way to ruin one of life's small pleasures.
I eat too much or eat the wrong things or both, and the predictable results come about Naturally, it's the government's fault, not mine:
The problem at first was that the problem was ignored: For almost two decades, young people in the United States got fatter and fatter -- ate more, sat more -- and nobody seemed to notice. Not parents or schools, not medical groups or the government.
PARIS, May 19 (Reuters) - France is considering a ban on happy hours in bars and on the sale of bottles of vodka and other strong liquor in nightclubs as part of efforts to curb binge drinking among young people, an official said on Monday.
Those gourmet hamburgers in the Red Robin commercials always looked good -- until I found out they cost $10 each. That's insane, I think -- I'll stick with the Thickburger. Now, there's this:
Chef James Locascio, of Rittenhouse Square's Barclay Prime, created Philadelphia's "haute" cheesesteak, an upscale version of the sandwich that includes butter poached lobster and shaved truffles.
"It's every ingredient you want to try in a lifetime in one," said Locascio.
A member of another misunerstood and put-upon minority (only 10 million Americans out of more than 300 million) asks for our understanding:
No, this is not a joke:
You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the "dignity" of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called "plant rights" is being seriously debated.
WINDSOR, N.J. (CBS) ? The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial "sin" tax on fast food.
If you go to a McDonald's in Britain, your server may be dressed better than you are (one of the new uniforms is worn by the woman on the left):
Uniforms at McDonald's have been given an overhaul by a designer better known for glamorous dresses worn by celebrities.
For the "government is the problem, not the solution" file:
