Milton Hershey’s chocolate factory, with its iconic double smokestack, is closing soon in downtown Hershey, Pennsylvania.
According to a National Public Radio report, Hershey’s chocolate bars will still be made nearby, in a newer facility outside of town that better accommodates modern manufacturing equipment. The [...]
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Overeating
Costs over lifetime: $258,000
America isn’t healthy: A whopping 2/3 of Americans are either overweight or obese, according to the National [...]
Fast food giant McDonald’s isn’t happy over a proposal in San Francisco that would ban toys from Happy Meals and other kids’ food unless the meals met certain nutritional standards.
Under San Francisco’s proposal, toys would be banned if the single food item or meal is high in calories, [...]
It seems the fast-food chain that invented the notion of “supersizing” just can’t help itself. McDonald’s is testing a new version of its Chicken Snack Wrap, and it’s not a snack any more: the Chicken Grande Wrap is a full-fledged meal in and of itself.
The Sante Fe BBQ [...]
The slices of crisp looking apples on a bright green background on Mott’s Healthy Harvest Granny Smith applesauce made me turn my head and crave an apple! For a packaged food, this product just looks fresh, plus it boasts “all-natural ingredients” and “vitamin C.”
It also [...]
The International House of Pancakes has a filed a lawsuit against a Kansas City, Mo.-based religious group that calls itself the International House of Prayer over the acronym “IHOP.”
The flapjack purveyor is flapping mad, so it’s going after the church group — which also [...]
After Carolee Hazard paid a stranger’s grocery tab, she was rewarded with $93. Hazard decided to donate the money and in turn started a movement that has raised more than $100,000 for a California food bank.
Jenni Ware was having one of those days, about a year ago. Standing at the [...]
What do you get when you fill a 6-by-10-foot Plexiglas enclosure with ants and then feed them a steady diet of McDonald’s Happy Meals?
Why art, of course.
Brooklyn-based artist Elizabeth Demaray’s exhibit — “Corpor Esurit, or we all deserve a break today” — at Exit [...]
Step away from that tuna can.
Its “dolphin safe” label produces warm feelings, but don’t mistake it for “turtle safe” or “ocean safe.” And it’s certainly not “tuna safe.” Accidental entanglements of sharks, sea turtles, juvenile tuna and other marine creatures take their own ecological toll — prompting the Monterey Bay [...]
Gotta love rivalry. Jamba Juice is upping the ante in its battle against McDonald’s to win smoothie lovers by accepting all McDonald’s smoothie coupons through Aug. 15, 2010. Jamba Juice is even accepting McDonald’s coupons for FREE smoothies. You will recall that McDonald’s abruptly canceled [...]
