Quick Bites: Hunger Hoax, Cheesehead Reaper, Choco-Bacon

• Thomas Sowell takes down "the hunger hoax."
• Rob Long, a Hollywood writer/producer and contributor to National Review and Ricochet.com, gives a somewhat surprising shout-out to Mark Bittman, the liberal New York Times food writer. "It's one of those tiresome left-wing cliches -- people eat junk food because it's cheaper than regular old supermarket food," writes Long, praising Bittman "for kicking that old left wing shibboleth to the curb." (This summer, this blog and many others criticized Bittman for his editorial calling for a tax on junk food.)

• The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) put up an anti-cheese billboard in Wisconsin which depicted a Grim Reaper figure wearing a cheesehead hat. The PCRM later obscured the cheesehead after a company that manufactures foam "cheeseheads" threatened legal action.
• Shhh, don't tell the food police, but I recently tried some chocolate-covered bacon ... is it as good as it sounds?