Quick Bites: McRib-ovore's Dilemma, 75% Less Salty

• Where would we all be without food police and food snobs? Without those know-it-alls, we'd never know that fruit snacks and McRibs are not equivalent to, respectively, real fruit and real pork ribs. Now that McDonald's has brought back their popular McRib nationally as a limited-time promo, author/leading food snob Michael Pollan has helpfully suggested that the FTC expose the sandwich's true nature to the unsuspecting populace. "Doesn't the word 'rib' mean anything?" Pollan said to CBS News. If there's no rib, he said, "why hasn't the FTC taken an interest in this question?" Um, maybe because even the FTC knows that "Mc" in front of the name of a product is generally understood to denote that it is fake, faux, or processed.
• Just so you know, the American Public Health Association is not extremist when it comes to salt. An extreme group would demand to remove 100% of salt from the food supply. The APHA only wants the FDA to reduce salt by 75%, which sounds totally realistic to me.
• Here's a great use of jelly beans. 
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