California signs law banning trans fats in restaurants

by Ted

Most California eateries must stop cooking with all but small amounts of the substances by 2010. California became the first state to require restaurants to cook without artery-clogging trans fats, such as those in many oils and margarine, under restrictions signed into law Friday by the health-conscious governor. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a physical-fitness advocate and […]

Gov’t tells you what to eat?

by Ted

This month, restaurant inspectors from New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will add a new violation to their checklist: the failure to display, in large type and directly on the menu board, the calorie counts of every item on the menu. The city claims that the new law, which applies to restaurants […]

If Burger King can sell a hamburger for $185, why can’t you ?

by Ted

The World’s Priciest Burger: Sold Out Money can’t buy you good taste, but it has bought about 100 hungry people the most expensive hamburger in the world. Named simply, The Burger, it was being sold for 95 pounds ($185.00) at none other than a branch of Burger King in the exclusive London district of South […]