{"id":2584,"date":"2011-05-20T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T08:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2011-05-20T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T08:56:42","slug":"this-weeks-food-news-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2011\/05\/20\/this-weeks-food-news-15\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s food news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been a while since I wrote one of these. Here goes…<\/p>\n

Campaigners call time on Ronald McDonald
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>For over 40 years the ever-so-slightly creepy clown has been the smiling face of obesity, health professionals are telling us<\/a>. Ronald sells drugs<\/del> burgers to kids, campaigners reckon, demanding in an open letter that McDonald’s stops marketing to children. I’m pretty sure It<\/a> could be the McDonald’s mascot and kids would still stuff the greasy pucks into their chubby maws.<\/p>\n

Britons are unadventurous eaters
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>It seems reports of a growing understanding of food in our fair nation have been overstated. ‘A study<\/a>‘ has found that 45% of us have never eaten goats’ cheese, and 1 in 5 have never had an olive. Thankfully, *cough cough splutter splutter* my book ‘Small Adventures in Cooking’ is coming out next month<\/a>. Perhaps that will redress the balance. I can’t believe I just did that.<\/p>\n

Strawberry celebrations premature
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>There was great rejoicing last week when farmers told us that this would be a bumper year for strawberries<\/a>. Alas, how much can change in a week. Now they’re telling us that the groaning early harvest caused by a hot April will lead to punishingly empty fields come June<\/a>. So eat up them strawberries now.<\/p>\n

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Other food news this week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* Battery rabbit farms return.<\/a> So that’s <\/em>where the Energizer bunny comes from.
\n* Man eats his 25,000th Big Mac<\/a>.
\n* David Cameron’s comfort food<\/a>. Alarmingly similar to mine.
\n* Waitrose launch breadless sandwich<\/a>.
\n* Rise in biscuit sales<\/a> as we turn to comfort in recession.<\/p>\n

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Blog of the week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* Chris Harding’s blog<\/a> has had me chuckling for a while now. Brilliant stuff. Bizarre photographs.<\/p>\n

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Video of the week:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marcel the shell with shoes on. Utterly divine.<\/p>\n