Posts Tagged ‘Food’
1974: Truck & Bus Transportation reviews Bimbo’s
FOOD has become such a hot topic in the rich West that we are offended by cheap protein in cheap meat products, and hipsters take photos of fine dining meals for tasteless blogs. Once upon a time, it was different. In 1974 Australia, for instance, Bluey Tucker used to write food reviews for Truck & Bus Transportation.
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Posted: 25th, January 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
The ban on tasteless diners taking photos of their meals
EVER taken a photo of your meal and posted it to a social media site? No, not pictures of terrible food, like this RyanAir disaster. This is about those pictures of fine dining. Some eateries in the US have banned diners from photographing their dinners. Rebecca Jane Stokes is delighted:
I don’t like people taking photographs of their food at restaurants because it takes the food out of its context. Whatever people might say — and I’ve heard it so many times from so many diet proponents — food is inherently social. Do you need to have food around to have a good time with someone? No, of course not. But there is something primal and nourishing in sharing a meal with people you enjoy. Social interaction sustains us, so does ingesting food — and when both are of the highest quality in a place designed with respect for that, taking a quick pic with my iPhone feels like giving the entire event short shrift.
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Posted: 24th, January 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Pointless vegetarian foods: ham that tastes like chicken
POINTLESS vegetarian foods features the ham that tastes like chicken. Well, so they say. How can a vegetarian be certain that it does?
Posted: 14th, January 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Andy Burnham is the latest fool to wage war on salt and butter
SHADOW health secretary Andy Burnham wants to ban foods that contain what he considers too much salt, fat and sugar. Of course, this being modern politics, Burnham soon dissembles and wants us to join the debate:
“Labour wants to lead this debate. That is why we are asking the public and experts if new limits for sugar, fats and salts would be the right approach. Like all parents, I have bought products like cereals and fruit drinks, marketed as more healthy, that contained higher sugar levels than expected. I don’t think that any parent would be comfortable with their child eating something that is 40 per cent sugar.”
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Posted: 5th, January 2013 | In: Politicians, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Man overdoses on Brussel sprouts (it’s a gas, gas, gas)
IT is fair to say that the humble Brussel sprout polarises opinion. Some love them more than any other food, while others heave at the thought of shovelling them down their gob.
One man from Ayrshire loves sprouts so much that he ended up hospitalised after overdosing on them.
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Posted: 29th, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Local News in Burnley: ‘I found a maggot in my butty’ (video)
LOCAL news travels to Burnley, where Hafiz Rehman, 27, says he found a maggot in his egg salad sandwich bought from the Greggs opposite Boots.
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Posted: 23rd, November 2012 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
Who wants to see Jamie Oliver sucking a dildo?
HAVE you seen Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Minute Meals? It’s a show so irritating that it makes you want to punch the very notion of television into next week. And Jamie, here’s an idea: 1.5 Second Meals where someone just throws a Jaffa Cake in their mouth and gets on with their lives without bogling at lettuce.
Anyway, when Jamie isn’t larging it up over some prawns on a massive wooden board, he’s pretending to be Food Bono, saving our wickle children from a fate worse than delicious hamburgers.
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Posted: 12th, November 2012 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Brighton All You Can Eat restaurant bans two gluttons
IMAGINE getting your 15 minutes of fame thanks to being a greedy sod. There are people who find fleeting fame from eating competitions or, indeed, you could be that Adam Richman from Man Vs Food.
But what happens when you’re the two men barred from an all-you-can-eat Mongolian restaurant in Brighton because you snaffle away appalling amounts of food and you end up going to the press about it?
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Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Lancashire school refuses to serve boy Yorkshire Puddings in Marmite
TO St Mary and St Benedict’s Catholic Primary in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, where Aryn Buchanan, 10, wants a Yorkshire Pudding smeared in Marmite. The only other foods he eats are toast (dry), chicken dippers, chocolate and sweet. Mum and dad say young Buchanan is a “very, very fussy eater”. But the dinner ladies and the school says Aryn can eat what everyone else has or bring in packed lunch.
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Posted: 4th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (7)
Lucky women finds mouse meat in Tesco sandwich
KATIE Crabtree, 31, found a free dead mouse in her Tesco bacon and chicken meal sandwich.
Says Kate of the sarnie bought in Stockton:
“I took a bite and saw this big black thing in it, but I thought it was just burned bacon and swallowed it. Then I saw there was something horrible in the sandwich. It was black and had hair – and I could see a little paw. It was horrendous. I felt so sick and now I can’t eat another packaged sandwich because I just think of that horrible thing. I chased it up a few times with the store and head office but nobody seemed to know what was happening. In the end they gave me a £10 voucher.”
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Posted: 28th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Food of the day: fat slag mixed with onion
FOOD of the day: fat slag mixed with onion. Add some kebab juice and we’ll take three to go…
More here.
Posted: 14th, September 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The stupidity, it hurts – the mainstream media gets it wrong on food speculation
I FIND it to be actually physically painful when I see some ghastly lefty nonsense being picked up as the obvious truth across the political divide. We expect the comies to say that we should wipe out the bourgeoisie but it would be odd to see the Mail or Telegraph agreeing with them. I feel the same pain when obvious nonsense moves the other way, don’t worry. Seeing the vile racism of the right being reflected in the supposedly internationalist left’s sometimes attitudes to immigration for example.
Today’s example is this from the Torygraph:
Finally, there is the pernicious effect of speculation. About 80 per cent of the global food trade is now speculative, and firms such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank have spent billions gambling on the price of food, artificially driving up prices.
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Posted: 5th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)
Boy finds free lizard baked into loaf of bread
CHEAP protein is the wonder of the modern age. Just get a load of what William Evans, 10, from, Hawkchurch near Axminster, Devon, who says he found a meat lizard baked in a Tesco’s multi-grain brown loaf. No extra charge. You’d think young Evans would be well chuffed.
And what odds dad Marcus is trying to play down the freebie so that not everyone wants one. He tells the Midweek Herald:
“The poor little lad was absolutely traumatised by it. He went to take a slice off for some toast, turned the loaf over and found the lizard stuck on the bottom.”
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Posted: 21st, July 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comments (2)
10 disgusting things found inside processed food
OUR gallery of 10 disgusting things found inside processed food is enlightening. Makes you wonder what gets fished out before it reaches the consumer? What surprise have you found in your dinner..?
chicken-head
An American mother went to a McDonald's with her two 6 and 8 -year old children. She ordered two Happy Meals with chicken for the children and a hamburger with fries for herself. While they were eating, the 6-year old was more interested in the slide across the street than in the chicken nuggets which he didn't even touch. So the mother decided she would eat them. Without actually watching what she was doing she was bringing a chicken biggest to her mouth, just when her 8-year old son yelled not to eat it. So she looked at the biggest to find that -- despite the crust, it looked just like a chicken's head.The manager offered them their meal for free and two more weeks of free meals. The mother pressed charges and demanded 100,000 dollars compensation.
Spotter: Complex, Oddee, Yahoo
Posted: 28th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Woman finds used condom in can of Knorr tomato paste
TO Brazil,where Cintia Mayerle has found a used condom in her tin of Knorr tomato paste. As promotional offers go, this one lacks local knoweldege. Brazil is largely Catholic country where contraception is frowned upon. Mayerle is upset. She sues the paste’s makers, British firm Unilever, for £3,100, including £1,110 for “moral damages“. Hard not to sympathise with Mayerle. Finding the inedible inside your food is revolting. (Unless you eat at mobile kebab vans, where the expected is part of the thrill.)
chicken-head
An American mother went to a McDonald's with her two 6 and 8 -year old children. She ordered two Happy Meals with chicken for the children and a hamburger with fries for herself. While they were eating, the 6-year old was more interested in the slide across the street than in the chicken nuggets which he didn't even touch. So the mother decided she would eat them. Without actually watching what she was doing she was bringing a chicken biggest to her mouth, just when her 8-year old son yelled not to eat it. So she looked at the biggest to find that -- despite the crust, it looked just like a chicken's head.The manager offered them their meal for free and two more weeks of free meals. The mother pressed charges and demanded 100,000 dollars compensation.
Posted: 28th, June 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
How to make a 3ft high salad tower (video and photos)
HOW do you take advantage of the all-you-can eat salad bar? How do you build a 3ft-high and rising tower of salad? Saladologist Shen Hongrui, a Chinese engineer, has the answer. When his local Pizza Hut in Beijing imposed a one-plate-one visit rule he set to work. New Scientist magazine now share’s Shen’s secrets.
Layer 1. Says Hen: “The foundations are very important, so choose dry and strong material.”
Layer 2. Radiating carrot sticks all the way to the bowl rim.
Layer 3: Vertical walls of cucumber slices or “fruit blocks”. Create a “cylinder”
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Posted: 8th, January 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Chinese Restaurant Sells Koala Bear Stew (Photo)
THE restaurant in Panyu district, Guangdong, sells live koala bears. You can take it away with you – “braised or stewed“. Bu way of a serving suggestion the koala has been placed next to a carrot.
Sounds good. Although the the Sydney Morning Herald reports on one Australian tourist who became upset. He tok a photograph of the lunch that cuddles back.
The man’s colleague calls 3AW radio and gives testimony:
“It’s 100 per cent right, that photo. There’s a carrot in the cage, the idiots have put a carrot in there. The restaurant had a large selection of birds, fish and other sorts of exotic animals on display that the diner could chose from for their gastronomic delight.”
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Posted: 1st, November 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Wants To Eat Your Puppies
FACE it. TV chefs are scum. They harangue you through your television set to tell you that you’re doing it all wrong. You aren’t growing your own vegetables, despite the fact there’s no allotments in your area and you live in a one-bedroomed flat three stories up. You’re not making things with celeriac, even though it looks like something tested on in Roswell and tastes like hell.
Basically, you are a lousy human-being who should be ashamed of wanting a Big Mac now and then.
And the latest crusade is from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (something of a surprise, no?) who says we should all eat puppies.
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Posted: 11th, October 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)
Rook Salad Off The Menu In Isle of Wight Pub: Cannibals On Loose In London
TO Paedo Island, formerly Isle of Wight, where rook salad is off the menu at the Taverners gastropub in Godshill.
Also off the menu is the rook farmer who sold the meat to a rook meat wholesaler – a 45-year-old from Ryde who has been arrested and formally cautioned on suspicion of contravening the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
Paul Cantwell, of Natural England, says:
“Under the provisions of a general licence issued by Natural England, it is legal to undertake control of rooks for certain purposes. It is also technically legal for people to eat the birds they kill under the licence, but it has never been legal to sell wild birds killed for human consumption, with the exception of the wood pigeon.”
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Posted: 23rd, August 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Why You Should Avoid German Vegetables And Stick With Scottish Beatle Larva
COMPARE and contrast the diets.
First, we look at the Vegetarian Diet. Killer German bean sprouts (formerly killer Spanish cucumbers) have so far claimed 22 lives and left thousands in hospital.
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Posted: 6th, June 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
Food Porn: A Gallery Of Sexy Foods
LIKE you we feel the sticky fingers of adolescence caress the mind’s eyes when out shopping. Sometimes all you can do it titter as you view the food porn – sexy foods in the supermarket:
Posted: 28th, May 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Nigella Lawson Will Not Be Losing Any Weight Anytime Soon, Okay?
WOMEN! Are you ‘curvy’? That’s cool. Curves are all well and good. Unless, of course, you’re one of those hideous simpletons who consider ‘curvy’ women to be ‘real’, therefore rendering thinner women ‘fictional’.
See, there’s been a propensity for some gals to throw ‘curvy’ at everyone, usually due to the fact that they’re imagining that everyone thinks they’re fat. For the most part, people are lost in their own daydreams and couldn’t care less about the weight of other humans, leaving all talk of ‘I’m fine with my weight ACTUALLY!’ looking like a hang-ups klaxon.
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Posted: 26th, April 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Woman Finds Brownish Frog In Can Of Green Beans
PRISCILLA Owens found a frog in her can of Wylwood Blue Lake Cut Green Beans. The frog was dead.
Says she:
“I can deal with maybe a grasshopper, because I know that they probably jump around in the green bean field. But a whole frog? That’s a whole other ball game.”
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Posted: 23rd, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Snail Found In Tesco Duck Wrap Stars On BBC Show
THE Tesco’s fusion cuisine Hoi Sin Duck Wrap contains an added bit of crunch: a snail.
Sue Gray, 39, chomped down on her fancy sandwich and bit into a live snail. Her teeth shattered parts of its shell.
Says Sue, who works at the BBC:
“I was in the newsroom at work eating it and then I crunched something which I first thought must be a loose filling. When I saw a piece of shell, I immediately spat the rest of the wrap out on to the packaging and saw the snail. The girl sat next to me was horrified and I felt awful. I ran to the toilets straight away to wash my mouth out and clean my hands.”
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Posted: 11th, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Woman Finds New Life Form Inside Can Of Beans
A WOMAN opened her can of beans, bought at the FoodMaxx store in Bakersville, California, and found this inside.
Anyone know what it is?
Posted: 1st, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
