Food & Beverage
Drive a Camaro? Get a Free Pizza On Wednesday

John Schnatter, the founder of the Papa John's pizza chain, spend years searching for the beloved Camaro he sold to start his business. Finally, he has been reunited with the car and in celebration, the chain is giving out free pizzas on Wednesday to all Camaro drivers.
Schnatter said:
"The Camaro represents what I gave up to start Papa John's. Words cannot capture the emotions I am feeling....I never gave up hope that someday I would get that car back."
Back in 1983, his father, an Indiana bar owner, was near bankruptcy. To help him out, Schnatter sold the only thing he had that was worth anything - a black and gold striped 1971 Chevy Camaro for $2,800. As he tells the story, he had to turn his back as the buyer drove the beloved car away. With the proceeds from the sale of the car, he bought some equipment and started selling pizzas out of a broom closet of his dad's bar. Slowly, they dug themselves out of bankruptcy.
Now the pizza chain is the world's third largest and is worth $750 million. But even as business began to take off and he became filthy rich, Schnatter never gave up hope that one day he would be reunited with his car.
Burger King Kicks Out Baby for Violating "No Shoes" Rule
Most restaurants in the U.S have a "no shoes, no shirt, no service" policy, which is pretty understandable. A Burger King in St. Louis, however, takes enforcing this policy to the extreme, asking a mother to leave because her 6-month-old baby was not wearing shoes.
Jennifer Frederich, her mother, and Fredrich's infant daughter, Kaylin, stopped at the Sunset Hills, MO Burger King on Sunday. The baby was not wearing shoes, and the thought that this would violate the "no shoes, no shirt, no service" policy would never cross most people's minds.
Workers, however, told the family that they had to leave because the shoeless baby was violating a health code. Shoelessness is not even a health code violation in St. Louis County.
Burger King's corporate headquarters apologized for the treatment of the family, and on Thursday released a statement indicating that the workers at the Sunset Hills Burger King had taken the policy too far:
McDonald's Launches High Quality Angus Burgers Nationwide

The Golden Arches are going premium. McDonald's today launched a 1/3 pound Angus burgers in all their stores. The new menu item has a high quality bun to go along with the choice cut of beef and will cost about $4. It is the first new burger to hit the menu at the fast food chain since 2001's Big and Tasty.
There are three different choices. The deluxe which has two slices of cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion and pickle. Mushroom and Swiss which has two slices of swiss and an ample supply of sauteed mushrooms. Bacon and Cheese which has American cheese, bacon, onions, and pickles.
Nestle Recalls Cookie Dough After 66 Fall Ill from E. Coli

Nestle USA is voluntarily recalling its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after numerous illnesses were reported by consumers who ate the dough raw. According to the company, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating reported E. coli illnesses that may be related to the consumption of the raw cookie dough.
Nestle warns that consumers should not eat raw cookie dough, and notes taht such a warning appears on its packaging.
The recall includes refrigerated cookie bar dough, cookie dough tub, cookie dough tubes, limited edition cookie dough items, seasonal cookie dough and Ultimates cookie bar dough. The recall does not affect any other Toll House products.
If you have purchased any of the products listed below, you should not consume them. Nestle is instead asking consumers to return them to their local grocer for a full refund. Any questions should be directed to Nestle Consumer Services at 1-800-559-5025.
A full list of the recalled products can be viewed here.
Cocaine Found in Red Bull Cola; Drink to be Banned in Germany
After traces of cocaine were found in samples of Red Bull Cola, the drink may be banned in Germany. Samples of the drink were examined by German food authorities, and were found to contain 0.4 micrograms of cocaine per litre, which was said to have been caused by the method used to process cocoa leaves.
Six German states have already ordered retailers to stop selling the beverage. More are expected to follow suit this week.
Germany's Federal Institute for Risk Assessment said that the cocaine levels found were too low to pose a health risk. A more detailed report is expected tomorrow.
Red Bull is currently available in 148 countries worldwide. It is banned in Denmark, Norway, Uruguay, and now German due to health fears.
Major Beef Recall Begins After 3 Cleveland Area People Fall Ill
On Thursday the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that Valley Meats LLC of Coal Valley, Illinois began a recall of nearly 96,000 pounds of ground beef products after three people became sick from E. Coli in the Cleveland, Ohio area. The USDA said that illnesses related to the recalled meat have also been reported in Pennsylvania and Illinois.
Last week the Ohio Department of Health alerted federal officials that three individuals - a 3-year-old girl, a 24-year-old man, and a 71-year-old man - with no connection to each other were ill from E. coli bacteria featuring the same genetic footprint. A spokesman says that two of the three were hospitalized and all are now recovered.
Officials from the Cleveland Health Department are also now investigating the death of a 7-year-old girl - a student at Westpark Community School on Lorain Road - who died as a result of E.coli. They are trying to determine if there is a link between the recalled beef and her death.
Most of the recalled meat is preformed patties under various brand names. For more information on the recalled products, please visit this USDA webpage.
Free Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Today

Looking for a bargain and a sweet treat? Then head on down to your local Ben & Jerry's shop for Free Cone Day. Today only from noon until 8pm local time, customers get a free scoop of ice cream, in a cone of course.
It's Ben & Jerry's way of thanking customers for buying their ice cream for 31 years. For participating stores, check out the Ben & Jerry's website at benandjerrys.com.
Avoid Eating Pistachios as Recall Expands
First it was peanut butter and peanut paste, and now salmonella has been found in pistachios. The nation's second-largest pistachio processor on Monday significantly expanded its recall of the nuts after federal investigators found salmonella bacteria in "critical areas" of its California facility.
Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, CA is recalling all lots of roasted in-shell pistachios, roasted shell pistachios and raw shelled pistachios produced from nuts harvested in 2008. Last week Setton Pistachio recalled just a small portion of the 2008 harvest on a theory that it may have been contaminated by a sanitation mistake affecting only one or two production lines.
However, the FDA and California Dept. of Public Health investigated furter, taking hundreds of samples from the plant and its products for lab analysis. Government investigators revealed that they found salmonella in critical areas of the facility, but did not elaborate on the details.
Setton supplies 35 wholesalers and food manufacturers that repackage the nuts for retail sale, or use them as ingredients in other products. Therefore, federal officials say that it could be weeks before a full list of all affected products is available.
Vegan Heather Mills Signs $6 Million Contract with Burger King
Heather Mills, the vegan ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, has just signed a multi-million dollar contract with one of the vegan world's mortal enemies - Burger King. While she's been busy promoting the vegan diet to impoverished kids in the US, she's been blowing through her divorce money and isn't above taking some cash in exchange for promoting a burger joint. Alright, so she won't be pushing burgers or any other kind of once-living animal for BK - she'll be promoting their new vegetarian burger - but they do go against everything vegans stand for.
Mills has agreed to back the launch of the meat-free burger at the fast food chains 11,350 restaurants worldwide. News of Mills' deal comes just three months after Paul McCartney's announced plans to revamp his first wife Linda's vegetarian food line.
A friend of Mills told People:
“Heather is ecstatic. She believes she can change the eating habits of millions. She’s also being paid a lot of money and the deal will help boost her standing.”
However a source close to McCartney commented:
Miley Cyrus Might Make You Vomit; Recall Issued on Branded Granola Bars
Miley Cyrus' Hannah Montana Chocolate Granola bars have been recalled due to a suspected salmonella contamination. The recall was issued in Canada last week after it was discovered that the granola bars contained peanut products that were a part of the massive peanut recall that happened earlier this year in both the U.S. and Canada.
Here are the specifics of the recall:
Disney Hannah Montana Peanut Chocolate Granola Bar Boxes of 6 or 18 bars, 22 g each with the UPC codes 0 53847 20587 9 *, 0 53847 24451 9 *, 0 53847 20610 4 *. 1H001 through 3H365; 1J001 through 3J365; 1K001 through 3K029.
There have so far been on confirmed illnesses in Canada associated with the consumption of the Hannah Montana Granola bars. Canadians are urged to call the CFIA at 1-800-442-2342 / TTY 1-800-465-7735 (8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday to Friday).
Food that is contaminated by Salmonella may not look or smell spoiled. But the consumption of contaminated foods may cause salmonellosis. This may cause serious and sometimes deadly inflections in young children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems. Otherwise healthy people may experience high fever, severe headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.










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