{"id":2752,"date":"2011-07-29T06:24:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T06:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2011-07-29T06:24:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T06:24:02","slug":"this-weeks-food-news-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2011\/07\/29\/this-weeks-food-news-22\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s food news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calories not considered in fast food joints
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>A study has found <\/a>that consumers aren’t put off by dishes with high calories in fast food restaurants. Despite several chains such as McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and KFC<\/a>\u00a0signing up to the government’s voluntary public health responsibility scheme<\/a>, such efforts seem fruitless. No one cares. Obviously. You don’t go to Pizza Hut and then act shocked when you see a stuffed crust double meatball supreme contains eight million calories.<\/p>\n

Morrissey compares Norway killings to fast food
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>Sticking to the fast food theme, the ever-insightful Morrissey <\/a>has suggested last week’s massacre in Oslo was ‘nothing compared to what happens in McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Shit every day’. He then launched into the moo-fest that is ‘Meat Is Murder<\/a>‘. It’s testament to the brilliance of the Smiths that despite the increasingly lunatic thoughts that spew from Moz’s mouth, I still love ’em.<\/p>\n

Ground-breaking research done into childhood obesity
\n<\/strong><\/span>\"\"<\/a>Researchers in Pennsylvania managed to get children to eat twice as many vegetables and 11% fewer calories after sneaking vegetables into their food. Round of applause. I mean honestly. Is this how research money should be spent? Granted, I don’t have kids, but I was one not long ago and I remember this sly ruse. What a bloody waste of rations. I could have told them that.<\/p>\n

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Other food news this week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* Lamb, beef and cheese have largest footprint<\/a>.
\n* Italian black truffles on sale in Morrison’s<\/a>.
\n* Healthy alcohol limit likely to be increased<\/a>.
\n* Forklift drops $1m worth of wine<\/a>.
\n* Moist<\/a> food at hospital criticised. Gross.<\/p>\n

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Piece of the week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* ‘Peasant food has become an educated middle-class marker’, says Simon Kuper.<\/a><\/p>\n

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