Pepsi Preps Its Biggest Product Launch In Years
Some people don’t like the calories in regular soda, but loathe the taste of zero-calorie diet drinks. So the nation’s No. 2 cola company is rolling out “Pepsi Next,” a cola that has about half the calories of regular Pepsi at 60 calories per can. The cola, which is slated to hit store shelves nationally by the end of March, More...
McDonald’s Debuts Fishy Version Of Popular Snack
McDonald’s newest fried morsels, the McBites, have already conquered the land: even though they were introduced just months ago, they’ve already proven one of the bestselling items on the menu at the More...
Woman Sues Taco Bell After Contracting Salmonella
Leah Smith, a 22-year-old Oklahoma woman, filed a lawsuit against Taco Bell on February 17, alleging that the fast-food chain was responsible for the serious case of salmonella infection she suffered in November, More...
Pricey Restaurant Chain Pays ‘Poverty Wages,’ Worker Advocates Say
It’s been a busy few months at Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a scrappy non-profit that advocates for low-wage restaurant workers. To be more exact, it’s been a busy few months trying to shame More...
Meat Lovers Savor Prospect Of Test Tube Burgers
Meat lovers may not need to wait for the price of $250,000 test-tube hamburgers to drop. A researcher says that he has created a vegetable-based product capable of winning over the taste buds and wallets of meat More...
Dinner At School: More Public Schools Dish Up 3 Meals A Day
Too often it is after the fact that teachers discover their students are worrying less about math and reading and more about where the next meal comes from. So Doug White, principal of Garfield Elementary School More...
Contaminated Chicken May Cause UTIs, Study Says
What do chickens have to do with UTIs? No, this isn’t a bad joke. A new study shows that UTIs can sometimes be caused by eating contaminated chicken. That’s surprising because until now, doctors have More...
Taco Bell Doritos Tacos About To Go National
Depending on your orientation towards novelty in fast food, March 8th will either be a secular pseudo-holiday or the latest step on the well-trodden path to apocalypse. Why? On Thursday, March 8th, 2012, Mexican More...
New Chili Pepper Proclaimed World’s Spiciest
There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there’s the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. With a name like that, it’s not surprising that months of research by More...
Snickers Maker To Stop Selling Any Chocolate Candy Over 250 Calories
Mars Inc, the maker of Snickers and Twix candy bars, will stop selling chocolate products with more than 250 calories in them by the end of next year, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The McLean, Virginia-based More...