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Quick-fix cooks- young professionals live on mock-meals (and even cereal)

by 72point

Millions of busy young professionals cook just once a week and survive the rest of the time on quick-fix meals such as beans on toast, scrambled eggs and instant noodles, research has shown. A study of employees aged 18 to 30 shows many are too busy to produce daily culinary delights, so instead whip up dishes like pizza, pesto and pasta, soup, stir fry, burgers and cheese on toast.

One in four [...]

Subway respond to short sandwich scandal by claiming that footlong is a NOT a ‘measurement of length’

Subway have finally responded to international criticism that their footlong sandwiches only appear to be 11 inches long.

But their reply won’t win them any new fans, as they claimed that the word footlong is a ‘registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub’ and ‘not intended to be a measurement of length.’

A man in Australia started uproar on Tuesday when he posted a photo on the company’s Facebook page [...]

Sandwich Doom! Eight dead in Britain after eating hospital sandwiches

At least eight patients have died in Britain over the past 10 years after eating bacteria-infected sandwiches prepared at hospitals, an independent health watchdog has found.

The victims died after being infected with the listeria bacteria, which thrives when food is not chilled properly, The Sun reported.

Half of those affected were cancer patients already weakened by chemotherapy treatment that left them less able to fight off the deadly bacteria, the Health [...]

The Meal That Will Cost You $200,000 By Retirement

by Angela Colley, Money Talks News |

Before I started working from home, I worked for a mortgage company – in an office right next to a Starbucks. Every weekday for a year, I bought a Grande Caramel Macchiato for $4.55 and a boxed lunch from a deli for $6.95.

I thought that was a bargain. But at the end of the year, I added up my lunch money and discovered I had spent (drumroll) $1,288.50 on [...]

Due to the explosion of anti feeding and anti food sharing laws the group Food Not Bombs is organizing a Day of Compassion to be held on Sunday April 1, 2012, called FOOD IS A RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEGE.

This day’s purpose is to bring to the general public’s awareness of many many food sharing prohibition laws that because they are little known are proliferating at an incredible rate.
The purpose of these laws are said to protect starving people from bad food but are an little disguised attempt to drive the homeless out of each town towards food These laws are destroying people and causing them to suffer incredibly.
We [...]

STARBUCKS expands beer and wine sales

SEATTLE (AP) – Starbucks, the company that proved there’s no such thing as paying too much for a cup of coffee, is expanding its experiment with wine and beer.

The company said Monday that it will start selling wine, beer and “premium” foods, like small plates and hot flatbread sandwiches, at four to six stores in Atlanta and another four to six in southern California by the end of the year. [...]

Nov. 3 is National Men Make Dinner Day, Cliche Day, Sandwich Day:

National Men Make Dinner Day

 

It’s just what men want more of: rules. It’s one thing to designate the first Thursday of the month asNational Men Make Dinner Day but to add a whole page of rules to go with it? That could be a serious road block on his way to the kitchen. The first thing you need to do is get your man to agree to cook dinner [...]

Teen Mob Of 50 Hits Chicago WALGREENS

A teen mob of thieves hit a Walgreens off the Magnificent Mile this week, store officials confirm. (CBS)

CHICAGO (CBS) — The teenage robbery mobs are at it again on North Michigan Avenue.

Some 50 young people barged into a Walgreens at Michigan and Chicago on the Magnificent Mile on Tuesday afternoon. They took bottled drinks and sandwiches off the shelves, then ran off, CBS 2?s Suzanne Le Mignot.

A police report [...]

Inflation is a weapon that dis-proportionately penalizes the poor

by mikla

Inflation hurts creditors and fixed income.

That’s true, but only to the extent you’re being repaid with “depreciated dollars”.  Since banks have no reserve requirements, *technically* their old loan for 5% can “kind of” be perceived as a “loss” when inflation is 15%.  For example, that would imply a 10% amortized loss, if marked-to-market, under the assumption that the capital could otherwise have been deployed [...]