Archive for the 'food' Category
In Which I Admit My Bigotry
Posted on June 24, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bill O'Reilly, Heinz, food, gay rights, mayonnaise | 2 Comments
In fairness to Bill O’Reilly, I also find the ad in question repulsive and would prefer it not be shown on television.
Of course, my revulsion is entirely unrelated to the couple appearing in the commercial. How can you people continue to eat mayonnaise? The substance is disgusting in every describable way. Please stop displaying it [...]
I Hope I Live Long Enough To See The Aforementioned New iPhone
Posted on June 9, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under food, food scares, tomatoes | 1 Comment
I ate a raw tomato yesterday. Well, two slices of raw tomato. They were on a sandwich I bought from the deli closest to my parents’ house in Columbia.
In other words, I’m clearly doomed.
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Snow Cones For All
Posted on May 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Columbia Heights, food | Leave a Comment
I’ve always complained that you can’t find decent snow cones in DC. In the Baltimore area, they’re everywhere in the summer (and called by their proper name, snowballs), but like a good crab cake or a decent bagel, they simply don’t exist thirty miles South.
Now Carol sends me the link to a Columbia Heights blog [...]
“Come on, pal. Fugu me!”
Posted on March 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under food, health scares, sushi | Leave a Comment
The latest food scare! What do we have today? “Experts warn about sushi risks“! This one ought to be great; is some new pollutant attacking our fish? Did some morons taint the tuna supply with E. coli? Does a new study show that raw fish contains a rare parasite which eventually causes cancer?
But chefs and [...]
A Deadly Plague Of Melon
Posted on March 24, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under food, health scares | Leave a Comment
Newest thing to be terrified by: Cantaloupe.
A salmonella outbreak linked to Honduran cantaloupe sickened two elderly Georgians earlier this winter, according to the state Division of Public Health.
The Georgia patients, from Gwinnett and Bartow counties, fell ill in January. One was hospitalized. Both have since recovered, said Belen Moran, a spokeswoman for the [...]
