Blog posts in Food Products

Let 'Em Eat Rats/Fox

Posted May 3, 2013

Lamb customers in the Shanghai area of China were buying other critters, disguised to be lamb-like, somehow, including rats,mink and foxes, according to an AP report from Beijing.

Criminal faux meat rings! Amazing. Read more here.

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Yay, Industrial Chemicals Now in Food

Posted March 9, 2013

"Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have discovered phthalates, industrial chemicals, in common foods purchased in the United States."

Common as in bad packaged pizza, supermarket meats and the like.

More from Science Daily 

Via Slash Food

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The Fungal-Ripening Benedictine Nuns of Bethlehem

Posted March 4, 2013

These nuns know cheese, thanks to an assignment to a young nun years ago that led to a cow that led to a cheese-making tradition in Connecticut.

Sister Noella Marcellino, with a PhD in microbiology, heads the team at the Abbey of Regina Laudis.

In  a piece in the New Haven Register, Sister Noell…

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Tea Hangers? Why Not?

Posted February 25, 2013

Clever/amusing packaging idea from  Soon Mo Kang.

Via Looks Like Good Design

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Outraged UK Catholic Group Nixes Crisps

Posted February 13, 2013

This post originally appeared at The Potato Museum.

You won't be able to try this new chip/crisp, flavored with Worcestershire sauce and chiles, because its name offended a group called Protect the Pope in the UK. The company that launched the brand, Pret a Manger, caved to the group's assertio…

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