Category archives for: Food

Jollibee owns Burger King

Jollibee owns Burger King

Ever tasted a Whopper Champ? Instead of a flame grilled quater pound beef patty, you get one-third pound meet inside a sesame seed bun with lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, ketchup and the underated mustard sauce. Now I’m hungry. I don’t know if that’s possible, but Jollibee, a Philippine-based fast-food restaurant chain, just signed a beefy 65.5 million pesos […]

Hundreds get free slurpee today 7/11 at 7 Eleven

Hundreds get free slurpee today 7/11 at 7 Eleven

Wohoo! Grab a jumbo hotdog, pay for it. Rake in some nachos and squeeze in that cheese sauce, pay for it…go grab a glass and slush in that chilled soda drink from the Slurpee machine…for free! Hundreds rushed inside 7-Eleven stores to get their free drink which comes in different bubbly flavors and summer colors, […]

Wendy’s new french fries

Wendy’s new french fries

Wendy’s will launch their “renewed” french fries on November 11. It’ll be Russett potatoes, with the skin still on and a sprinkling of sea salt on top. Sea salt is increasingly used in fine dining. The move to remake their fries is to attract old and new fans of their hamburger chain to taste and eat […]

Egg recall due to salmonella scare

Egg recall due to salmonella scare

Watch out for the egg killer. Hundreds of people have reported getting sick and the cause is said to be an outbreak of salmonella in eggs. Three states at least have expanded an egg recall to 380 million eggs. Salmonella is the most common bacterial form of food poisoning. The Centers for Disease Control and […]

Swedish diver finds world’s oldest champagne

Swedish diver finds world’s oldest champagne

Swedish and Finnish media reported that a Swedish diver may have found the world’s oldest drinkable sparkling wine when he recovered several bottles amid wreckage of a 230-year-old ship in the Baltic Sea. Fishermen of Finland’s Aland archipelago told Christian Ekstrom of the sunken ship several years ago, but the diver thought the vessel was […]

Michelle Obama pushes childhood fitness at NAACP Convention

Michelle Obama pushes childhood fitness at NAACP Convention

The time had come for dramatic changes to the diets of African Americans and young people across the country, US first lady Michelle Obama told the NAACP Convention meeting in Kansas City last Monday. Pushing her “Let’s Move” initiative designed to attack childhood obesity, Obama said that the scourge of overeating is threatening the nation’s […]

McDonald’s Faces Happy Meal Lawsuit

McDonald’s Faces Happy Meal Lawsuit

Do you remember opening your own Happy Meal box? Excited to play with the toy inside more than eating your burger and greasy fries? Well, non-profit Center for Science in the Public Interest thinks of McDonald’s as the “stranger in the playground handing out candy to children.” They accuse McDonald’s of using irresponsible advertising by […]

Facebook.com/nabiscocookies giving away free cookies!

Facebook.com/nabiscocookies giving away free cookies!

Get a chance to win free cookies from Nabisco! Find out how below! Getting your free Nabisco cookies: Check out Facebook.com/nabiscocookies ‘Like’ the Nabisco Cookies page Click the Cookies & Milk tab Click the ‘Print Coupon’ Head over to the nearest participating retailer and buy 1 package of Nabisco cookies and a gallon of milk. […]