Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Local Burger King Shut Down After Officials Reportedly Find Over 200 Species of Flies

Hows that Whopper? Don't mind those flies now, they don't eat much.

Foxnews
A Chicago Burger King has been shut down after inspectors say they were so many flies in the fast food restaurant that they were "afraid to open their mouths," reports MyFoxChicago.com

The South Side Burger King reportedly had more than 200 flying insects of various types that were found on the walls, ceilings, clean dish shelving, sink, food storage area, dry storage area, on the tubing of boxes of soft drink syrup, and in front of the drive-up window.

Officials shut down the eatery Tuesday.

"Pest control was woefully inadequate and poor housekeeping fueled the infestation of flying insects at the Burger King near 95th and Ashland," said Josie Cruz, deputy commissioner of Street & Sanitation's Bureau of Rodent Control.


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Sunday, August 24, 2008

N. Korea Develops Noodle that Delays Hunger

Only in North Korea, Apparently scientists in North Korea have developed a new type of noodle that delays feelings of hunger. The news comes from the Pyongyang leadership so take this with a grain of salt. I'm surprised Kim Jong II didn't take credit for this. BBC


North Korean scientists have developed a new kind of noodle that delays feelings of hunger, a Japan-based pro-Pyongyang newspaper has reported.

The noodles were made from corn and soybeans, the Choson Shinbo said.

They left people feeling fuller longer and represented a technological breakthrough, the newspaper said.
The North Korean scientists were able to use shredded paper, bugs, and inedible roots as ingredients for the special noodles....
According to the newspaper, which is seen as closely linked to the Pyongyang leadership, the new noodles have twice as much protein and fives times as much fat as ordinary noodles.

"When you consume ordinary noodles (made from wheat or corn), you may soon feel your stomach empty. But this soybean noodle delays such a feeling of hunger," it said on its website.
Mugabee has expressed interest in the special noodles for his starving population.

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