Well THIS makes me feel a whole lot better: the USDA has changed it’s standard for what percentage of chicken carcasses in a processing plant can test positive for salmonella. The new standard sets the limit at 7.5%. The previous limit, set in 1996, was…drumroll please…20%. Is it possible to be retroactively nauseated, because I think I am.
We’ve all got our hate on for the KFC Double-Down sandwich, right? I mean, could anything BE more disgusting and such a symbol of our gluttony? Well, this The Smart Set post by Greg Beato would kindly like you to remember that the Double Down doesn’t even qualify as an amuse bouche compared with the 12-egg omelets, truck-tire-diameter pancakes, and side-’o-beef burgers that Adam Richman finds in restaurants all over the country on Travel Channel’s “Man vs. Food” or the cheese-laden, deep-fried, gut-busting “off the hook” dishes Guy Fieri lauds on “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives”.
And let’s not forget the health care reform idea touted by Nevada Republican Senatorial candidate Sue Lowden: paying your medical bills by bartering live chickens to your doctor in return for treatment. Who says Republicans aren’t just FULL of…ideas.
