Friday, June 28

 
Chicago Tribune | Scientists take starch out of french fry cancer scare
Of course, this doesn't mean you should celebrate with a Biggee Fry. But, the word from the World Health Organization's conference in Geneva, Switzerland, is that while acrylamide levels in cooked starchy foods such as potatoes are above those recommended for drinking water, they aren't high enough to be considered harmful or cancer-causing. Not yet, anyway; the scientists want to study the issue more - they are, after all, scientists. Still, they did say that McDonald's and Burger King's fries had the highest levels of acrylamide, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Association has classified as a "probable" human carcinogen.
posted by Unknown 10:28 AM

Friday, June 14

 
Where is a Tall a Small? Starbucksland

As if there weren't enough reasons some people need to dislike Starbucks. The Car Talk Guys from National Public Radio (make that "Cah Tawk") are ranting about the deceptive ways Starbucks sizes its drinks (perhaps, as Dr. Ink of the Poynter Institute for wayward journalists suggests, to justify the big bucks the drinks cost). If you live in a city where there isn't a Starbucks on every corner, you might find this more amusing than people who have been held hostage to the tall (make that small) green coffee cups.
posted by Unknown 8:37 AM