Burger King’s summer menu includes a new dessert that’s riding high on the bacon fetish that has swept America in the last few years. The Bacon Sundae is your basic Sundae dessert with a few pieces of bacon shoved in … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2012
America’s Top 10 Favorite Ice Creams Are…
We ran a survey last week and asked our Android and iPhone app users to scan their favorite ice cream. The top ten brands accounted for 75% of your “votes”. Here is the full list. Rank Brand Name Percent 1 … Continue reading
What’s a Banana Bunker and Why You Need One!
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Folks, this is hilarious. Turns out bananas need protection. Despite their durable outer protective skin, bananas tend to get mushed when packed in bags for “later”. That’s what led to the creation of Banana … Continue reading
More Fathers in the Kitchen, Please
Happy Father’s Day! Dads have come a long way in the last two generations. Where in the 1950′s, most men were no more than weekend dads, today it is generally expected of males to share the burden of homemaking and … Continue reading
Will This 9 Year Old Girl Change School Lunches?
Martha Payne is a 9 year old Scottish girl. In April she started recording the rather crappy school lunch she and her classmates were being served. Going by the nickname Veg, Payne photographed and wrote about the “dinners” in a … Continue reading
Guess What, Food is Too Cheap in America!
The headline may come as a shock to many, but when we compare the price we pay for groceries today as a percentage of our income vs 30 years ago, it turns out we are paying less, 25 percent less. … Continue reading
Froot Loops, German Edition – Das ist Gut?
Here’s the European version of Froot Loops. It’s Manufactured by Kellogg’s in the UK, and distributed across the continent. This package has information, including nutrition and ingredients, in German, French, Swedish, and Finnish. Looking at the product, you can see … Continue reading
A Semi-Sweet Recap: Sugary Beverage Summit
This is a guest blog post by Dr. Lisa Sutherland, PhD Last week, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in collaboration with other organizations, presented the Sugary Drinks Summit of 2012 in Washington, DC. Co-sponsoring the event with CSPI … Continue reading
Where’s the “Whole” in Whole Foods Market?
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. Something has been “softly” incongruous about Whole Foods since the opening of their first store a thousand years ago: … Continue reading
Senior Coke Exec: We Don’t Believe in Empty Calories. We Believe in Hydration
Katie Bayne is an Atlanta mother of 2 children, and a busy executive. She is the President & General Manager, Sparkling Beverages, Coca-Cola North America. And she has some advice for us on how to fit Coke products into our lives. Bayne was … Continue reading