Odd Consumer News
For you Tim Allen types: This grill can cook 240 hotdogs in three minutes.
Link [http://www.gizmag.com/go/4397/].
Food and Drink
Lactating Frenzy Continues
> A US firm is looking to commercialise breast milk by selling it to hospitals for
the treatment of sick babies.
> Prolacta Bioscience, a small company just outside Los Angeles, also wants to
carry out research to develop breast milk-based therapies.
> Breast milk, with its minerals, digestive enzymes
Brews You Can Use III
Europe's newest totalitarian regime, the EU, stopped short of starting a riot:
> Under the EU's Optical Radiation Directive, employers of staff who work outdoors
in high-risk professions must ensure they cover up against the risk of sunburn.
Rumors swept Bavaria early in the week that
Brews You Can Use II
Talk to me, baby!
Someone has started a podcast about beer. From the site:
> Our podcast is an internet radio broadcast about good beers, good food, good
friends, and good fun. We talk with guests from around North America and around
the world–brewers, growers, chefs, maltsters, publicans, and
Brews You Can Use
This guy has created an iceless beer box. At a cost of over $100 and hours of
effort, combined with the bulky result, we don't see it catching on. Still, we
appreciate his efforts. Link [http://www.shawndouglas.com/beerbox/index.html].
We Knew Drinking Alone Was a Problem . . .
. . . but so is eating alone, at least for children:
> [F]ewer than one-third of all children sit down to eat dinner with both parents
on any given night. ... The decline in the family dinner has been blamed for the
rise in obesity, drug abuse, behavioral problems, promiscuity, poor school
Atkins Loses A Lot of Weight
And a lot of debt:
> The company started by the late nutrition guru Dr. Robert C. Atkins to promote a
low-carb lifestyle has filed for bankruptcy court protection, a further sign of
the waning popularity of the diet.
Link
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050801/ap_on_bi_
Brews You Can Use II
Some relatively-obscure beer quotes, with our brief commentary:
We like that, too:
> It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and
start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with
beer, and I've always
Brews You Can Use
What's more popular, beer or wine?
> The Gallup survey found that 63% of Americans drink alcohol, and that 39% of
them say they drink wine more often than any other alcoholic beverage. Beer
drinkers account for 36% with spirits drinkers making up 21%. Last year the
numbers
Even We Don't Like Beer That Much
> A woman who admitted to setting a fire in her home because she was upset there
was no beer pleaded guilty to arson, and several other charges Tuesday.
> Police say Ruby Jewell was upset that her husband wouldn't buy her more beer
last January, so she