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  • Posted: June 22nd, 2012 - 11:51am

    A Massachusetts man allegedly attacked and robbed a man using sausage links as a weapon. Michael A Baker, 22, not only stole jewellery and a bicycle from the victim, police said, but the sausage was stolen from a stand in Brockton, south of Boston.

    Date Published: 
    20.jun.12
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  • Posted: June 22nd, 2012 - 11:41am

    It’s the logical next step for Jamie Lee Curtis and her Activia yogurt that makes people poop. Researchers have, according to Mail Online, worked out a way to tell if a person is ill by changing their poop to different colors.

    Date Published: 
    20.jun.12
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  • Posted: June 21st, 2012 - 1:09pm

    Who steals mayonnaise? Who steals 42 kilos of mayo like it’s liquid cocaine. Police were today conducting a manhunt for thieves who made off with 42kg of mayonnaise from a business in South Australia. Two 21kg tubs of the condiment went missing from a refrigerated warehouse in Whyalla, about 382km north of Adelaide on Saturday.

    Date Published: 
    19.jun.12
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  • Posted: May 11th, 2012 - 3:04pm

    A German man who was caught with 49 live lizards in his luggage at Munich airport claimed the creatures were for his dinner and even offered to bite the head off one to prove it.

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    10.may.12
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  • Posted: April 26th, 2012 - 11:32pm

    I received a bunch of my food safety education while working with fruit and vegetable farmers in southern Ontario (that's in Canada). Sure, I learned lots of stuff in classes, but a lot of my training on practical ways to keep folks from barfing was in greenhouses, fields and orchards. Farmers deal with variability in weather, wildlife, prices and staff.

    Date Published: 
    25.apr.12
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  • Posted: April 4th, 2012 - 10:55pm

    The latest entry to our food-related 911 Hall of Shame is Donna Marie Nichols of Rockwood, Tennessee (right, exactly as shown) who called 911 twice to complain about a substandard fast food hamburger. In one call, obtained by the website The Smoking Gun, Ms Nichols, 50, tells the 911 dispatcher that the burger is "no good" and "nasty."

    Date Published: 
    04.apr.12
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  • Posted: March 31st, 2012 - 12:18pm

    On March 22, 2005, Anna Ayala claimed she found a finger in a bowl of chili at a San Jose Wendy’s restaurant. The finger became the talk of the Internet and late-night talk shows, spawned numerous bizarre tips and theories about the source of the finger, and led to dozens of copycat claims. Wendy’s lost tens of millions of dollars.

    Date Published: 
    29.mar.12
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  • Posted: March 10th, 2012 - 6:44pm

    Vincent Kluska, a 24-year-old car body worker, found a mouse head in a can of Carrefour brand green beans, while preparing his lunch in Annemasse in the Haute-Savoie, France, reported RTL.

    Date Published: 
    08.mar.12
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  • Posted: March 3rd, 2012 - 5:03pm

    Goon is the best hockey movie ever. It captures the profanity, skill, camaraderie, beauty, violence, toughness and tenderness inherent in hockey. As the coach proclaims at one point: We’re not playing baseball here (the real quote is far too vulgar for a family-oriented blog).

    Date Published: 
    03.mar.12
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  • Posted: February 18th, 2012 - 11:13am

    Julie Powell, who wrote that Julie and Julia book that became the movie with Meryl Streep impersonating Dan Aykroyd impersonating Julia Child, writes in the New York Times today that when the city’s restaurant inspection disclosure program started 19 months ago, she was going to eat at restaurants with a “C.”

    Date Published: 
    18.feb.12
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