1. Coles guilty over
false freshly baked bread claims
Roll over Coles
(well someone had to make the pun)‘Coles has been declared guilty by the Federal Court of misleading shoppers with claims its bread and other baked good were “freshly baked” when that was not the case. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched proceedings against Coles in June last year, accusing the supermarket giant of misleading consumers into thinking bread was made on the day at the store when, in some cases, the bread had been partially baked months earlier in overseas factories.’
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/coles-guilty-over-false-freshly-baked-bread-claims-20140618-3addf.html#ixzz34yT6KJvR
2. Australian honey does us proud.
Our bees are the buzz, peeps :)
'In Australia we have much less chance of having
contaminants such as chemicals and antibiotics in our honey because our bees,
at the present moment, have fewer diseases and parasites. The rest of the world
is dealing with bee pests such as Varroa destructor which beekeepers elsewhere
use chemicals to treat. Not so in Australia.'
3. All Jamie’s plush
toys recalled by Woolworths – can choke and stab
Not half as well as farmers angry at being slugged a crate
fee. And Oliver, or his pr mob, get the most asinine response award for this
one: ‘In a letter to Ausveg, Oliver
said he was powerless to stop the fee, as he was an "employee" of
Woolworths. He said he had no sway over the supermarket's commercial
decisions.’ He has a really weird idea of what an employee is I reckon.
4. Hey hipsters,
hands off my flat white
‘'On Sunday, the
Observer asked, “Could it be that the flat-white-drinking, flat-cap-wearing
hipster will soon cease to exist?” And in the Telegraph, confessing that you
drink a flat white will score you three out of a possible four points in its
Are you a hipster?'’
A flat white? No wonder England don’t swing no more!
5. What the crap? Neanderthals had
a taste for vegetables.
Yeah but were any of them vegan?
'a study of ancient faeces (yes, 50,000-year-old poo)
published today in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests that Neanderthals had more of
a taste for fruit and vegetables than first thought.'
6. How to Invent a Local Food
Culture
‘Ask someone to list dishes that come from a specific place
in Britain and it's likely that Melton Mowbray pork pies will come fairly near
the top of the pile. Cornish pasties will be up there too, Cullen Skink, and
perhaps Liverpool Scouse, but soon enough the ideas trail away. We're a
population that grazes dishes from across the world and, for the most part, we
feel no more connected to a local dish than we do to a curry. When travelling
abroad, we're quite taken with the regional dishes that appear again and again,
but closer to home, local food culture is still a fairly new idea, mostly
driven by the trend-led efforts of creative chefs and encouraged by food
hobbyists.’
There is all the difference of course between a local dish
and a dish that is created to sum up a locale. But it’s a fun article.
