Published December 29, 2015
In an interview with the food website Lucky Peach, former New York Times recipe writer Mark Bittman said that he thinks there should be a legal minimum drinking age for soda. He argued that given soda’s proven health risks, it should be treated like alcohol or tobacco and be forbidden for people who are too young to make rational decisions.
Pittman acknowledges that his idea is far-fetched and unlikely to be put into place anytime soon, but he insists that soda should not be marketed to kids. While a legal drinking age for soda won’t happen until far into the future, if at all, many food chains in the U.S. are adapting to the growing consensus that too much soda is harmful for kids by offering alternative beverages for children or eliminating soda entirely from their kids’ menus.
It seems rather draconian to legally prevent children from drinking soda, and there’s no reason why it can’t be an occasional treat, but Bittman is right in saying that the amount of soda an average American child drinks at the moment is far too much. Hopefully the private sector can adjust the foods they market to children so that a health crisis can be averted without the government stepping in.
Read the full article here: Minimum Drinking Age For… Soda?
Published December 29, 2015
The Miss Universe Pageant has been all over the internet of late because host Steve Harvey initially crowned first runner-up Ariadna Gutierrez-Arevalo as the winner before realizing his mistake and taking her crown away. Burger King took advantage of the brouhaha surrounding the pageant by tweeting a picture of someone wearing a Burger King crown with the caption “At BK everyone gets to keep their crown.” This is as solid an example of corporate restaurant Twitter as you’ll ever see.
Read the full article here: Burger King Miss Universe Tweet is a Crowning Achievement
Published December 29, 2015
Culinary consumers are showing a greater willingness to be challenged of late, and restaurants are taking advantage by filling their menus with bold flavors. Salty, spicy and sour have all became popular in recent years, but the newest flavor trend on American menus is bitter. Bitter first became popular in the beverage world, with cocktail bitters, mouth-puckering IPAs and black coffee making customers go wild. Now bitter flavors are expanding into the solid realm, with foods like kale, brussels sprouts and bitter chocolate showing up on more and more American food menus.
Read the full article here: Consumer Craving for Bitter Flavors Increases as Trend Grows Beyond Cocktails
Should Soda be Regulated Like Alcohol or Tobacco?
In an interview with the food website Lucky Peach, former New York Times recipe writer Mark Bittman said that he thinks there should be a legal minimum drinking age for soda. He argued that given soda’s proven health risks, it should be treated like alcohol or tobacco and be forbidden for people who are too young to make rational decisions.
Pittman acknowledges that his idea is far-fetched and unlikely to be put into place anytime soon, but he insists that soda should not be marketed to kids. While a legal drinking age for soda won’t happen until far into the future, if at all, many food chains in the U.S. are adapting to the growing consensus that too much soda is harmful for kids by offering alternative beverages for children or eliminating soda entirely from their kids’ menus.
It seems rather draconian to legally prevent children from drinking soda, and there’s no reason why it can’t be an occasional treat, but Bittman is right in saying that the amount of soda an average American child drinks at the moment is far too much. Hopefully the private sector can adjust the foods they market to children so that a health crisis can be averted without the government stepping in.
Read the full article here: Minimum Drinking Age For… Soda?
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