Posted in Food Commentary, Jeffrey Steingarten, embarrassment, food, healthy, hearty, important details, medical, obesity, safety, unhealthy, weight on Mar 31st, 2008
As regular readers will already know, we are gourmands, and not necessarily gourmets. [For those of you who aren’t sure of the technical differences between these two terms, a gourmet is a connoisseur of fine food and drink, a gourmand is a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.] And, […]
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Did you hear? Mississippi introduced a bill this week to make it illegal for restaurants with a state license to feed obese people. I’m sure it won’t be passed but what do you think? If it was passed, what would they do? Have a scale in each restaurant that patrons would have to […]
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Posted in Europe, Fast Food, Fast Food Nation, Food Commentary, McDonald's, cheap meal, culture, food, news, rant, unhealthy on Dec 12th, 2007
Yesterday, leading companies in the EU (read: major corporate conglomerates) said that by the end of 2008, they would change their policy on advertising junk food and drink during TV shows that are geared towards children under 12. And they did this voluntarily! Well, maybe not completely voluntarily. They may have been trying to avoid […]
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