What did you have for breakfast?
"French Toast Crunch returns to shelves as cereal sales slide
PORTLAND, Ore. — General Mills said Monday that it is bringing back popular ’90s cereal French Toast Crunch in a nod to nostalgia. The food maker says the move is purely a response to consumer demand, but it comes as General Mills and other cereal makers are coping with weaker cereal sales due to changing consumer tastes. Cereal sales have slid as alternatives such as Greek yogurt and breakfast sandwiches have gained popularity. And last month, General Mills, which also makes foods such as Yoplait yogurt and Progresso soup, cut its sales and profit outlook for the year, citing persistent sales weakness in the food industry. The company has tweaked other parts of its cereal lineup recently in an attempt to boost sales. It gave Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal a stronger cinnamon taste, made Cheerios without genetically modified ingredients, and released a new line of Cheerios with added protein. General Mills said French Toast Crunch, which was discontinued in 2006, is its most requested cereal for rerelease."
I'm glad I no longer eat cereal.
How about brunch?
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Then order Chinese:
"Harvard professor apologizes over Chinese-food fight" by Billy Baker and Matt Rocheleau, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent December 10, 2014
BROOKLINE — This is the story of what happens when you bring four Harvard degrees into a fight over four dollars.
Spoiler alert: If the Internet gets involved, you’re not going to win this one.
A 34-year-old lawyer and Harvard Business School professor named Benjamin Edelman — who has been called the “Sheriff of the Internet” for his militant policing of companies who commit online consumer fraud — quickly became an online punching bag after e-mail leaked Tuesday revealing that his latest target was a mom-and-pop Chinese restaurant in Brookline.
The restaurant’s alleged offense: overcharging him $4 for a takeout order.
By Wednesday evening, Edelman had issued a mea culpa on his personal website. By then, Edelman, who says his research focus is to “fix the Internet,” had watched it explode on him, inviting levels of attention that bordered on Kardashian.
The feud came to light on Tuesday after boston.com published the lengthy e-mail exchange between the litigious professor and the apologetic restaurant, Sichuan Garden, which admitted the menu on their website hadn’t been updated in a while and their prices had changed.
I'm already full.
In the e-mail back-and-forth, Ran Duan, whose family runs Sichuan Garden, apologized repeatedly and offered to refund the money, but Edelman wrote that was “an exceptionally light sanction for the violation that has occurred.” He invoked Massachusetts consumer protection statutes, and insisted that the restaurant refund him triple the overcharge — $12 — for damages related to this “intentional violation.” He also contacted Brookline authorities — Edelman says they were no help — and ultimately insisted the restaurant refund everyone that they had, in his opinion, overcharged.
Are you sure it wasn't an added gratuity? Some places have that policy.
Prior to his apology, Edelman spent a good bit of time defending his actions to several media outlets — in an e-mail to The Boston Globe on Tuesday, he credited himself for having “flagged the issue and pressed the restaurant to remove the false statements on its website.”
Edelman, whose aunt is children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman, has a long history of huge academic and professional accomplishments — he’s been on the faculty at Harvard Business School since his mid-20s and has taken on Google and Facebook over privacy issues — and a willingness to take on small fights on principle.
Edelman discovered in 2010 that Facebook users could inadvertantly disclose to advertisers their phone numbers, addresses, and other information when they clicked on advertisements. It led to an outcry from users and a major overhaul of the social network’s privacy policies, the Globe previously reported.
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Alvin Roth, a Nobel-prize winning economics professor at Stanford University, who had Edelman as a student and later a colleague at Harvard, said that in Edelman’s exchange with Sichuan Garden, he was probably motivated by principle and the common good, believing he was looking out for the little guy.
“Ben is someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about the misbehavior that class action lawsuits are supposed to protect against — when a business is charging a little extra on a lot of transactions,” Roth said. “His motivation was not $12.”
And it is clear that Edelman does not need the $4 (or even the $12). A story in Bloomberg Businessweek earlier this year said he charges as much as $800 an hour to research companies for investors. According to Brookline town records, Edelman co-owns a condo that is assessed at $1.3 million dollars. The house has seven bedrooms and five fireplaces, according to records.
Edelman did not respond to several inquiries from the Globe seeking comment Wednesday.
He clammed up, huh?
At Harvard Business School on Wednesday, many students were avoiding reporters or moving to distance themselves from Edelman’s actions, but the accompanying Harvard bashing had already reached epic levels. In an effort to help shield the school, some students have launched a campaign to get people to donate to the Greater Boston Food Bank. The suggested donation is $4, but the Internet was already having its way with the story....
Hello, readers.
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Not so yummy, was it?
Shoulda went to Logan for lunch:
"At Logan, pre-flight meals take healthy turn; Airport in top 10 for good-for-you food, group says" by Allison DeAngelis, Globe Correspondent December 09, 2014
Before Massachusetts travelers spend the holidays eating homemade cookies and drinking calorie-loaded eggnog, they can grab one last healthy meal at an unexpected source: Logan International Airport.
“Airports have a notorious reputation for serving unhealthy foods,” said Susan Levin, the director of nutrition education for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, based in Washington, D.C. “But I’d be lucky to stumble upon some of the restaurants at Logan while walking down a street in Manhattan.”
Because airports are now exclusively more and more the realm of the elite.
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In its rankings debut, Logan placed 10th among the country’s busiest airports for healthy food choices in the committee’s 2014 airport food review, the annual study released on Dec. 5.
In the last few years, vendors like Berkshire Farms Market and Gogo Stop and local favorites like Potbelly Sandwich Shop and Legal Sea Foods have transformed dining at Logan.
Related: Legal Sea Foods sued over tip policy
I think they should throw them all back.
Massport and project developers are increasingly seeking out local restaurants with healthy, fresh food options in response to an increased demand from surveyed customers, according to Logan Airport’s concession business manager, Leah Teeven.
Kale and quinoa salads and vegetable sushi are common sights in Logan’s new restaurants and concession stands. Sports bars are featuring veggie burgers, and hearty New England dishes are being paired with fresh local produce, as complimentary meals on domestic flights have increasingly gone the way of free checked baggage, Logan passengers now often purchase multiple meals at airport concessions, said Teeven. At the same time, travelers have been forced to arrive for flights earlier due to increased post-9/11 security screening.
Hey, at least someone is benefiting off the freedom-destroying false flag!
“There has been a big change in the amount of time people have to sit in airports,” said Levin. “And businesses either have taken advantage of that captive audience, or tried to cater to what customers want.”
A captive audience in the land of body-scanning freedom.
The airport is now a PRISON, and the TSA guards behave just like jailhouse guards.
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The colorful fruits and vegetables and other high-fiber, low-cholesterol food choices help to stave off the negative side effects of flying: dehydration and increased threats of germs from sitting in pressurized cabins, decreased blood flow from inactivity, and even an altered mood.
But never you worry about Ebola or anything.
Remember when flying used to be fun?
French fry lovers need not worry: National chains continue to make up the majority of food vendors at Logan, and Massport officials said they have no intention of pushing healthy foods on travelers....
Oh, good.
What airports top the healthy food list?
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Did you see anything you might like?
Almost time for dinner and a different menu.
