Category: food

Burger places go for chicken

"In July 2019, before the Popeyes craze, a group representing McDonald’s franchisees argued in a letter that the company needed a superior fried-chicken sandwich. 'JFK called for a man on the moon,' it wrote. 'Our call should be a category leading chicken sandwich.'"

— Damon Beres (@damonberes.com) 2025-05-12T16:58:21.021Z

McDonald’s, Wendy’s and other burger joints are leaning into chicken

Ending food safety inspections is a terrible idea

Ugh the gross negligence to public safety…it’s only a matter of time before this decision leads to something going horribly wrong.

— Z Nerdy Girlie (@butterflyforest.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T18:09:55.222Z

Public health and other experts are criticizing the Food and Drug Administration for how it handled a widespread E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce.

— People Magazine (@people.com) 2025-04-18T11:00:54.831Z

People are going to die from contaminated food

— David Leavitt 🔜 #PaxEast (@davidleavitt.bsky.social) 2025-04-17T22:57:23.002Z

This is really bad, signed a historian of food safety

— Christopher Deutsch (@drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social) 2025-04-17T22:56:27.868Z

Articles and video on New Haven pizza

There are several famous pizza restaurants in New Haven. CT. This Washington Post article on Pepe’s reminded me of the film Pizza: A Love Story which is about several New Haven pizza places. I supported it on Kickstarter.

At Frank Pepe’s, a century of coal, clams and thin-crust pizza

The people have spoken. Congrats to Modern Apizza in New Haven for winning the Connecticut Pizza Capital Trail Contest!I'm so grateful to the State of Connecticut who organized this contest to showcase the amazing pizza Connecticut’s has! More here: bit.ly/4m6KxN4

— Rosa DeLauro (@delauro.house.gov) 2025-05-04T18:04:22.522Z

The two Gunning’s crab houses

The Instagram post below reminded me of the two Gunning’s restaurants, both long gone. There was the one in Brooklyn (the southern part of Baltimore). It wasn’t fancy but the crabs were great, Then there was the suburban one that, as a friend said, had the personality of an airport lounge. The food was good, though.

https://www.tumblr.com/retrobaltimore/88504232204/which-gunnings-was-the-real-gunnings