Over in the UK, Domino's Pizza is reportedly testing a new way to deliver pizza: with drones.
"That's great for the folks across the pond, but drones are a far touchier subject here in the States," says an article on MSN Money. "Mounting criticism of drone strikes abroad, especially strikes targeting Americans, forced President Barack Obama to discuss the drone program at length and vow to reduce it. Understandably, critics aren't ready to take him or the military at their word ..."
Given the Obama Administration's fondness for using drones, I think it wouldn't be long before the government was spying on our pizza toppings. Or they could send a drone to assassinate you and disguise it as a harmless pizza drone. Hopefully drone delivery won't be instituted in the U.S. because it's just another White House scandal waiting to happen.
After years of mostly marketing its coffee, Dunkin' Donuts is raising its original game by taking its new donut, bacon & egg sandwich nationwide.
The media have treated it as the latest freak fast-food sandwich. Businessweek says it doesn't taste as weird as it sounds, which makes sense because it's basically the same flavor concept as the McGriddle.
Needless to say, the emergence of this new DD sandwich is not welcome news for the food police, who have been telling us that American customers demand healthy fast-food offerings so therefore the restaurant industry should just do what they say. If that were true, then why did McDonald's just report that they're focusing on meat products again because their salad sales are slow?
06/10 Update: A Krispy Kreme Sloppy Joe has been sighted at a fair in San Diego. Gawker speculates: "Perhaps Kripsy Kreme aficionados felt the need to step up their game after Dunkin' Donuts tried to end us all with the Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich." Yes, I think that's what happened, and I say bring on the donut-sandwich war!
Now NYC is cracking down on juice boxes; you know, what those bratty grade-school kids like to drink.
Bloomberg doesn't just hate Big Gulps, you see, he also hates small gulps. No apple juice allowed in the Big Apple. Welcome to the city that never sips.
I guess if there is any upside to this latest stupid push, it's that he's treating kids like children instead of treating adults like children.
Before he went after 'sugar water,' New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was trying to regulate how much salt the citizens of the city he governs could eat. His ban on large sodas was blocked on the day before it was supposed to go into effect by a New York Supreme Court judge--and now there comes a scientific setback to his war on salt. The New York Times reports the following:
No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet
In a report that undercuts years of public health warnings, a prestigious group convened by the government says there is no good reason based on health outcomes for many Americans to drive their sodium consumption down to the very low levels recommended in national dietary guidelines. Blah blah, etc...
But don't worry, these setbacks won't hold back a powerful man like Bloomberg for long. I'm sure he'll find another reason why he and the rest of the food police should be able to tell us what we're allowed to eat.
In related news, one of the oldest people in America says that bacon is a key to longevity.
If you regularly read this blog then you know that 1) there is a such thing as "food deserts" in theory, and 2) there is no such thing as "food deserts" in reality. At least not in America. But not everyone reads this blog and therefore still needs to be informed of this big sham. Stu Burguiere, one of Glenn Beck's sidekicks, did a tongue-in-cheek video that investigated a so-called food desert in New York and oddly enough found quite a few accessible food sources.
But as a big fan of this blog, you probably saw that ending coming.
