In the United states red candy whips are often called licorice. In other cultures true black licorice is appreciated and available in myriad flavors including mellow, salty, and delightfully bitter. It is ironic that old people, the people most likely to eat black old fashioned licorice may be the most at risk.
Image www.candywarehouse.com.
Is Licorice Dangerous?
November 1, 2011 | smithsonianmag.com
It’s first day of November and kids everywhere are sitting down with stashes of goodies they earned the night before by dressing up, knocking on doors and rattling off the three magic words that win them a treat. And for adults, the leftover Halloween goodies are all on sale, so the time is right to enjoy a treat or two as well. Personally, I love my Good and Plenty, the licorice treats with pink and white sugary shells that spokesperson Choo Choo Charlie uses to make his locomotive zip down the track. But it turns out that Charlie should consider cutting back on his candy habit. According to a consumer awareness update published by the FDA, overindulging in licorice can cause health problems.
Lululemon in an official publication stated in 2008 “soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi will be known as ‘the cigarettes of the future’”. Lululemon in 2008 also had to remove controversial messages from it’s bags. Click here to download a pdf of the document that contains the soft drink comment.
Lululemon drops Coke and Pepsi from its manifesto
January 16, 2008 | Canadian Press
Yoga-wear retailer Lululemon Athletica Inc. has removed a reference suggesting soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi will be known as “the cigarettes of the future” from its corporate manifesto, which adorns the popular retailer’s shopping bags and website.
The line, which had appeared in the top left corner of the manifesto poster, had read: “Coke, Pepsi and all other pops will be known as the cigarettes of the future. Colas are not a substitute for water. They are just another cheap drug made to look great by advertising.”
Claws for thought: Sue Vanwyk with colleague Jacqui Ward and a model lobster at Martin Hobbs fishmongers
That’s a fishy tale, sir! Police arrest man for ‘kill and stab’ threat on Facebook after buying lobsters for dinner
By Craig Mackenzie | 26th November 2011 | www.dailymail.co.uk
A shopper landed in hot water with the police after he bought two lobsters for dinner.
They swooped when he wrote on Facebook about his plan to go into town ‘to kill’ and ‘stab something in the neck’.
Four officers in bullet-proof vests handcuffed the suspect outside the Martin Hobbs fishmongers in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
A turkey flies into a restaurant on Thanksgiving Day….no seriously.
The turkey did not survive his Thanksgiving Day adventure.
A death most fowl: Turkey crashes into Pa. eatery
6abc.com | 2011.11.25
A wild turkey smashed through a plate glass window at an empty western Pennsylvania restaurant and ended up where millions of its fellow gobblers did on Thanksgiving: a dining room.
Penn Hills police Officer Bernard Sestili tells the WTAE-TV the feathered fowl didn’t survive impact when it barreled into the dining room of the Eat’n Park in Penn Hills on Thursday afternoon. The restaurant was closed at the time.
Whether you camped out for a weeks for a Black Friday Deal today or are celebrating BUY NOTHING DAY you can still enjoy some of these fine sports.
Weird Turkey and Thanksgiving Sports
By Maryam Louise | Yahoo! | 11/22/11
Are you and your family or friends looking for a new way to celebrate Thanksgiving that doesn’t involve shopping for Black Friday deals? If you want to go beyond the annual shirts versus skins backyard football game, consider using the turkey as the object of your sport. It will not only encourage others to get up off of the couch, but weird turkey-related sports are a good way to show the kids who the real black sheep of the family is.
Historic weird Turkey Day sports
For over a century, Thanksgiving has been a time of sports traditions. Of course, we are all familiar with the football related history of Thanksgiving Day, but few are aware of all of the games related to the fourth Thursday in November throughout time. For example, an 1922 article from the Miami News tells a tale of sports related to Thanksgiving at the State College for Women in Tallahassee.
In 1922, it was common to stay on campus during Thanksgiving rather than commute back to your hometown. For this reason, having a day off meant an opportunity for participating in bizarre sports. These ladies were mimicking the already well-established tradition of Thanksgiving football games by dividing the student body into Evens and Odds. The two teams commenced to participate in a variety of competitive events including football, singing, color rushing, and a pajama and lantern parade. However, none of those sports included using a turkey as the sporting object.
In researching the recent pumpkin wreck in Michigan I found this earlier story about a similar incident in Illinois involving cinnamon rolls, cakes and bratwursts on an interstate.
Highway accident creates a “sticky” situation
Oct 15, 2011 | www.wbir.com
An Illinois highway is open again after a Thursday wreck caused a sticky situation.
Police say at 4:20 Thursday morning driver Bradford Garrett lost control of his truck carrying frozen cakes and other baked goods and collided with another semi driven by Ronnie Davis.
The accident happened on westbound I-74 about 4 1/2 miles west of Goodfield and left 20 tons of desserts and bratwurst strewn about the highway.
“It’s very slippery out here because of the sugar and the fats from the meat,” said Illinois State Trooper Dominic Visione. “IDOT is out here to pressure-wash the road.”
Another crew from Dunbar Transfer was responsible for hauling away all of the spoiled food.
“We hauled 8 tandem loads of food to the landfill this morning, said hauling company Landon Dunbar. “That’s a lot of food.”
…how could the delivery truck back door have burst open? News footage from Channel 7 WXYZ in Detroit shows reporter Malcolm Maddox, who looks like he is enjoying himself, with a very torn up truck still brimmed with pumpkins. That is, it looks like the company overfilled the truck with orange gourds, which simply broke the bolts of the door off from the sheer weight of the seasonal fruit.-thesop.org
Truck dumps pumpkin load on I-696 in Farmington Hills
Oct. 26, 2011 | freep.com
Pumpkins bounced across I-696 during today’s morning rush hour after a truck lost part of its load in Farmington Hills.
Pumpkins bounced across I-696 during today’s morning rush hour after a truck lost part of its load in Farmington Hills.
An eastbound motorist called 911 after one bounced out of the back of the truck and onto his car at about 6 a.m. near the Orchard Lake Road overpass, Michigan State Police Sgt. James Kemp said.
BFT. (If you don’t know what that means, look it up.)
Image howstuffworks.com
Government to expand E. coli tests in meat
September 13, 2011 | Mary Clare Jalonick | boston.com
The government is expanding its testing of E. coli in meat, a move that will hasten recalls and help authorities identify more foodborne illnesses.
The meat industry has been required for 17 years to test for the common O157:H7 strain of the pathogen. Now it will test for six more. These other strains of E. coli have increasingly been found in food in recent years, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says other strains cause an estimated 110,000 illnesses annually.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday the Agriculture Department will begin testing for the additional strains of E. coli in beef trimmings — parts of the cow that end up in ground beef — in March. That testing may later expand to ground beef itself and other meats.
Personally I would chose Taco flavored Doritos, which I’d bet is a re-issue of the old, less orange, nacho cheese flavor. Farewell Arch, 97 years is a pretty good run on this planet.
West’s daughter tells the Dallas Morning News that the family will sprinkle Doritos at West’s funeral this coming Saturday. “We are tossing Doritos chips in before they put the dirt over the urn,” she says. “He’ll love it.”
Oddly, this Doritos at a funeral theme is reminiscent of a “Doritos® – Crash the Super Bowl 2010 Finalist – Casket” where a man fakes his death so he can enjoy spending time in a casket full of Doritos.
Arch West, in the 1960s. Image Gittings Portraits, NYT
Mr West's final tribute is similar to this wanna be tv spot "Doritos® - Crash the Super Bowl 2010 Finalist - Casket."
Doritos Creator Dead, to be Buried with Chips
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | September 26, 2011 11:47 AM EDT
Arch West, a former Frito-Lay executive and creator of Doritos, will be buried with the chips that made him famous.
The 97-year-old died of natural causes on Sept. 20 at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas, his family confirmed in a statement over the weekend.
During a graveside service scheduled for 10:30 a.m. this Saturday at the Restland Memorial Park, his family has plans to toss Doritos chips in “before they put the dirt over the urn,” West’s daughter Jana Hacker told The Dallas Morning News.
In 1961, while on vacation in San Diego, West tried fried tortilla chips for the first time at a local snack shack. According to his daughter, West’s original Doritos idea received a “lukewarm” corporate response, but eventually his marketing research led to the roll out of the tortilla chip.
Doritos officially arrived in the U.S. in 1964 where it has since expanded to 23 flavors, including Cool Ranch, Nacho Cheese and 1st Degree Burn Blazin’ Jalapeno. Internationally, the company has developed nearly 100 flavors, although some have been discontinued.
I love reading the owner defend his product without using the word “novelty.”
Felicia Williams, Community Liaison for Buffalo City Council member Darius Pridgen, holding a "Pot Pop" lollipop in Buffalo, N.Y. Image www.usatoday.com
Marijuana-shaped candy alarms parents, officials
By CAROLYN THOMPSON | www.usatoday.com | October 10, 2011
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Candy shaped like marijuana that’s showing up on store shelves around the country won’t get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low.
“We’re already dealing with a high amount of drug abuse and drug activity and trying to raise children so they don’t think using illegal substances is acceptable,” said City Councilmember Darius Pridgen. “So to have a licensed store sell candy to kids that depicts an illegal substance is just ignorant and irresponsible.”
The “Pothead Ring Pots,” “Pothead Lollipops” and bagged candy are distributed to retail stores by the novelty supply company Kalan LP of the Philadelphia suburb of Lansdowne. It also wholesales online for $1 for a lollipop and $1.50 for a package of three rings.
