Food News Gleanings

Items of foodie  interest from The Week magazine,  issue dated July 1, 2005:

---A Washington Post story claims that people brewing their own jo would save $55,341 over 30 years  ( including interest) if they stopped buying those $3 daily lattes.

----The U.S. government evidently is paying $12.68 per day for  meals served to Gitmo guests, while U.S. troops are fed on $8.65 per day per person.
----A beer watchdog group in London reports that British beer is being served way too warm in pubs. 52 degrees is the refreshingly perfect temp for draft beer.
----Diet soft drinks make you fat because the sugary taste doesn't deliver the satisfaction available in a regular sugar-filled soft drink but instead primes the drinker to want to eat.  The University of Texas Health Science Center  revealed that "the risk of obesity goes up by 41 percent for every can or bottle of diet soda a person consumes daily."
----Three men who robbed a McDonald's in Virginia over a year ago were identified by DNA in abundance on their unfinished burgers.
---Soft shell crabs are in--don't forget to eat them!

Comments

[Cynthia Clampitt]

They must be figuring on two lattes a day, because one $3 latte per day comes to "only" $32,850 over 30 years. Two per day would be about $65K, then deduct the cost of the coffee you're using at home to come up with the $55K. I'm glad I like water.

As for the diet soft drinks, I know that now, but I wish I'd known it 40 years ago, when I first started drining the stuff. But back then, we figured chemistry was the door to a better life. Sigh.

And now, to go look for some softshell crabs. Thanks for the heads up.

[Foodie]

Thanks for doing the java math, Cynthia. And---I am now obsessed with having soft shell crab sushi, soon....