Food and Drink

A sensible thought expressed in a New York Times op-ed piece and echoed by a blogging mom:

Boy, talk about your "good news-bad news" announcements:

Even Burger King is embracing the freshy-changey thing.

In the first of many steps to reinvent itself over the next year, the struggling fast-feeder Friday will announce that it's dethroning the creepy King character — and other wacky, teen-targeting stuff — and refocusing on a customer it had all but forgotten: Mom.

Oooh. Chocolate. Lots of lovely, sinfully good chocolate:

"Illinois tipped workers make more than double Indiana's." When I saw that headline, I thought it was a story about what cheapskates Hoosier restaurant diners are. But, no, it goes somewhere else:

Illinois minimum wage is $4.95 for tipped employees -- $2.82 cents more than Indiana's.

Indiana is one of the 17 states following the federal minimum wage of $2.13 for tipped workers -- the lowest in the nation.

This is interesting:

The Fort Wayne community likes its food fast, according to a new report by Bundle.com.

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Best blog headline of the day: "McDonald's to revamp Happy Meals because you're too dumb to watch what your kids eat."

Fair headline? Well, until now, when ordering a Happy Meal you had a choice between the traditional burger and fries and a more nutritious but-mom-I-don't-want-that burger with apple slices. But it turns out most of you were choosing “poorly.”

Don't you just love fanatic fringe groups who hide behind respectable names?

Instead of grouping hot dogs with Mom and apple pie, a national medical group wants you to consider them as bad for your health as cigarettes.

I'm not sure, but I think he was trying to insult us:

Downtown Fort Wayne could support a year-round farmers market, a Maine consultant has concluded, but in part because of the city's “cheap food” mentality start-up costs would have to be minimized

Perhaps ny quest for the perfect coney dog will lead me to the conclusion that I have to make my own sauce. Here's a recipe from John Whiten of southern Indiana which is claimed to be "the ultimate coney sauce."

John Wilhelm's Coney Island Sauce

3 pounds ground beef

2 19-ounce cans tomato puree

2 tablespoons chili powder

1 tablespoon mustard

The punishment seems a little harsh for the crime here, wouldn't you say?

 - A Dillard's employee who was fired after being labeled a "hot dog thief" should not have been denied his unemployment benefits, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.
     Nolan Koewler was fired after Dillard's Fourth of July picnic in 2010 for eating two leftover hot dogs from the refrigerator.