Where to begin? Morning news & inbox full of depressing stuff.
Wall Street Journal reports on a study showing convenience foods don't really save time. Maybe not, but they'll turn you and your family into fat, lazy slobs.
Stanford study shows that kids will eat anything if they think it comes from McDonald's, even carrot sticks. Conclusion: Mickey D does a fantastic job! Wanna sell more carrots? Hire Ronald McDonald.
Associated Press finally get around to reporting on those new standards for chocolate (you read it here two months ago). Chocolatiers are divided; weaker standards could make their jobs easier, their products less delicious, more fattening but cheaper.
Trader Joe sells shrink-wrapped produce (longer shelf life, one assumes) and gloats that its intermittently decent Two-Buck Chuck came out on top at the California State Fair. Attempts to duplicate the results failed, however. If you live too far from a Trader Joe, buy Franzia's boxed white at your local Rite-Aid, pretty much the same stuff inside.
Hoping for more cheerful news by lunchtime.
Posted by Ronald Holden at August 7, 2007 10:50 AM
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