John Boehner is making a concession to his right-wing colleagues with a plan to sue (but not impeach) Barack Obama for being king or something. Michele Bachmann will articulate that plan to Fox News now. But Fox News' Neil Cavuto ain't having any of it.
Researchers in Germany published a study this month on something near and dear to American hearts: mindless eating in front of glowing screens.
Sure, you love the buttery, chemical-y, cholesterol-y flavor of a nice bag of hot, steaming popcorn. But who has the time or cardiovascular stamina to place a bag into the microwave, push a button, and wait up to three minutes?
Wayne Watson (pictured above, imitating a bag of popcorn) was awarded $7 million today in a lawsuit he filed after being diagnosed with "microwave popcorn lung," which is a real thing. Watson was diagnosed with the respiratory disease in 2007, after eating two bags of artificially flavored popcorn a day for years.
Looking for new ways to stymy your appetite? Try the FDA's Food Defect Action Levels Handbook, a great new diet book guide for food distributors and inspectors. It details exactly how many maggots a comestible good may contain before it gets banned for "aesthetic" reasons, i.e., "being too icky."
Finally, something that makes movie theater popcorn even more unhealthy! The Flavor Funnel is a "long, plastic gizmo that's stuck in the middle of popcorn containers" and distributes butter more evenly. Let's just coat the whole thing in chocolate, too.
Since the last terrifying report 15 years ago, movie theater popcorn has not become healthy.
Just in time for blockbuster season, Ad Age brings into crisp relief the latest crisis befalling multiplexes around the country: Evil, evil popcorn. "According to an Agriculture Department report, next year's corn stocks are expected to plunge to a 13-year low and, as a result, corn-futures contracts have soared to…
