food in the news

Junk food news (also known as junk news or junk journalism) is a sardonic term for news stories that deliver "sensationalized, personalized, and homogenized inconsequential trivia",
especially when such stories appear at the expense of serious investigative journalism. It implies a criticism of the mass media for disseminating news that, while not very nourishing, is "cheap to produce and profitable for media proprietors."

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  1. mjd

    Sweeten Your Springtime With Japan’s Fruit Sandwiches

    I always find it interesting how people beautify food. Sweeten Your Springtime With Japan’s Fruit Sandwiches Sweeten Your Springtime With Japan’s Fruit Sandwiches
  2. mjd

    Taco Bell will start reusing hot sauce packets

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  3. flyinglentris

    Rodent Hairs, Fly Maggot Mouth Hook Parts, Cleaning Solvents, Pesticides, Glass, Pebbles, Plastic and ...

    The stories hit the news every now and then, stories about food contamination, either in foods at the grocery stores or at home, due to lack of good sanitation. There are stories of restaurant chains being sued by customers who later were found to have intentionally slipped a cut off human...
  4. mjd

    The New Shortage: Ketchup Can’t Catch Up

    The New Shortage: Ketchup Can’t Catch Up Supply chain problems are reaching into a far corner of the business universe: Ketchup packets. After enduring a year of closures, employee safety fears and start-stop openings, many American restaurants are now facing a nationwide ketchup shortage...
  5. flyinglentris

    Pickle Corn Dogs at Disneyland Resorts.

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  6. PreppedFRESH

    The key food trends for 2021 in Australia

    So our friends at Goodfood.com.au have pulled together the key food trends for 2021 and we are proud to be featured as driving change in the convenience category in the SMH and The Age print edition. Do those trends also apply to your country?
  7. rascal

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  8. mjd

    Food related trivia

    I receive a weekly newspaper that has a section for "Strange but True". I thought it might be fun for us to have a food related trivia discussion. Here are some from the paper... * In the Middle Ages, a man's wealth was measured by his stockpile of pepper. * Russia only classified beer as an...
  9. flyinglentris

    Nostalgia foods

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  10. Dive Bar Casanova

    Midwestern Brands Pet product recall:

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  11. TastyReuben

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  12. MypinchofItaly

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  13. TastyReuben

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  14. Duck59

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  15. TastyReuben

    Goodbye TaB

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  16. CraigC

    Skyline is closing In Ft. Lauderdale.

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  17. rascal

    The best, a kiwi there as well

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  18. TastyReuben

    Chocolate Whopper Is No Joke!

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  19. KitKat

    Cooking Shows

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  20. TastyReuben

    Boneless Chicken "Wings" Rant

    From a city council meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nebraska man's 'boneless chicken wings' rant goes viral
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