Eating Well

From Blondieandbrownie.com: The browned butter bacon doughnut

This is really not the sort of thing I should be looking at, since I’m trying to maintain some sort of healthy eating (it being the New Year and that being what people do in the New Year … or at least what this person tries to do in the New Year … ). And it seems sort of weird (a bacon doughnut?), but yet it looks interesting and I’m curious about how it tastes.

I’m still uncertain about how bacon became such a huge trend, and I still don’t eat it all that often, but I’m no saint and I know how good it tastes.

http://www.blondieandbrownie.com/2012/01/browned-butter-bacon-doughnuts.html

When an Asian woman found herself described in a racial slur on a Papa John’s receipt in New York, she fought back by using Twitter.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/07/lady-chinky-eyes-papa-johns-store-uses-receipt-to-call-woman-racial-slur_n_1191434.html?ref=food&ir=Food

Three hours after Tweeting a picture of the receipt, using a hash tag and naming Papa John’s, over 25,000 people had seen it. Papa John’s was forced to respond. While the assistant manager, interviewed by the Huffington Post, was rather clueless (“”I’m sure they didn’t mean any harm but some people will take it offensive”), corporate came down on the franchise and the employee was fired.

Some people on the company’s Facebook page commented that the firing of the employee was excessive, or, as one person put it, “extreem.” I absolutely disagree. I see way too much bad customer service in general. A mean-spirited, racist, bully of a person has to learn he or she doesn’t belong in a position serving the public. And I’m not blaming Papa John’s by any means. There have been plenty of stories in multiple fast food restaurants (and of course other businesses) about rudeness. I don’t even think this was the first case of an ethnic slur printed on a receipt. I applaud Papa John’s for taking the appropriate action.

But I love that Twitter brought the story out into the open and made the firing necessary. It puts companies and employees on notice over and over again that it’s not just one customer they are dealing with. When an employee treats someone rudely there will be witnesses, in some cases thousands and thousands.

From Huffington Post, by Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow, Media Matters for America:

“Confirmed: Nutrition Doesn’t Explain Right-Wing Attacks on Michelle Obama“

“… to hear them tell it, it’s all the First Lady’s fault. Conservatives become unglued because Obama’s so busy pressing their buttons with her nutrition activism, which apparently drives them bonkers and causes staffers at Fox News to fabricate fairy tales.

“According to the haters, what kind of conservative wouldn’t be offended by the Nanny State rhetoric emanating from the White House, with all that big government hand-wringing about people eating too much food, when everyone knows the answer to obesity is to just eating less food, and that exerting a little personal responsibility can cure this problem overnight.”

Read entire blog here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/confirmed-nutrition-doesn_b_1186310.html?ref=media

This is one of those stories where you say, “Well, I knew it was bad for you … I just didn’t realize it was THAT bad for you!” The Center for Science in the Public Interest recently analyzed movie theater popcorn and found that a medium popcorn and soda combo was the nutritional equivalent of eating three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter–1,610 calories.

This was at Regal Theater, the country’s largest theater chain, which pops its corn in coconut oil. The large popcorn alone (without the soda) has 1,200 calories and 60 grams of saturated fat–three days worth of fat.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is saying “fairly definitively” that Americans eat too much salt.

“Action needs to be taken to reduce the nation’s salt consumption,” which is contributing to high blood pressure, heart attacks and stroke, a CDC report said.