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Food and Drink

Grub

The current installment of one of my favorite hard-hitting journalistic endeavors, the Indianapolis Star's "What's in your fridge?"

Steak 'n shaky

This is understandable but still a shame :

Indianapolis-based Steak 'n Shake, a favorite of the late-night crowd and an Indiana institution, faces a shaky financial future.

Some stockholders hope to push the struggling restaurant chain in a new direction, but experts say that might not be enough to save it, 6News' Ray Cortopassi reported.

The lunch police

Gimme that lunch, kid!

School lunchboxes could soon be monitored by dinner ladies to ensure children are eating healthy meals, ministers said.

Under the Government's obesity strategy, all schools will be expected to design a "healthy lunchbox policy" on what makes a nutritional packed lunch over the next year.

Kiss up

I don't mind the cost of roses going through the roof every February-- it's routine supply & demand. But this is unacceptable:

Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Hershey Company which is the nation's largest candy maker, says it is raising the wholesale price of its chocolate bars for the second time in a year.

The company says it needs to make the move to offset rising energy and commodity costs.

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Choices

Welcome to the bar, where you may feel free to kill yourself with alcohol, either the slow way, by sinking slowly into beer- and whisky-induced organ shutdown and/or suicidal depression, or the fast way, by turning your car into a killing machine also likely to take out any number of innocent bystanders.

Jailhouse diet

Yes, this is a real story, not something that was in The Onion:

Sheriff's officials were astounded Thursday by a letter requesting the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed on a vegetarian diet to keep him from being "involved in any senseless killing" while incarcerated.

Something fishy

Remember the great Fort Wayne fake-fish story I made fun of? Apparently, I was a little too quick to judge what may be a developing nationwide scandal:

Sick of school

Not so fast:

FLOYDS KNOBS, Ind. - An outbreak of E. coli has sickened at least 10 people, including seven schoolchildren, and officials have ruled out school cafeteria food as a source.

Not Equal to the task

I don't have much to do with diet foods, but I've used Equal instead of sugar in my coffee ever since the stuff first came out. I drink so much of it that I figured it couldn't help but make me lose weight. This bad news may help explain why I have not exactly become svelte:

The Gore Effect

So what are you people thinking, that there are "fast food" offsets?

If you're feeling virtuous about the sandwich you've ordered at a fast-food restaurant, you'll probably grab some chips, cookies and a soda, too.

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