Rough translation

"You didn’t have to speak English to dig coal,” John Brunett said one recent afternoon, summarizing the cultural forces that gave birth to the pepperoni roll, the signature product of his family’s bakery."

Another sexual metaphor

IN 2002, Google began to drink the milkshakes of the book world.

Succor

“The weakness is feeding on itself,” said James O’Sullivan, an economist at UBS.

Squirrels, food

Even during World War II and the period of austerity that followed, the Ministry of Food valiantly promoted the joys of squirrel soup and pie.

And I can still hear the pips...the pips

A dried-up orange from the lunchbox of a miner fatally injured on the day he was due to eat it has gone on display in a Staffordshire museum. The fruit belonged to Joseph Roberts who was injured in an explosion at a Stoke-on-Trent colliery in 1891. It had been kept by his family but has been donated to the Potteries Museum. Spokeswoman Deb Klemperer said it may just be a piece of dried fruit but the story behind it made it an amazing piece for the museum. The pips can be heard rattling when the orange is shaken.

Primitive desires unlocked

The sleeping pill Ambien seems to unlock a primitive desire to eat in some patients, according to emerging medical case studies that describe how the drug's users sometimes sleepwalk into their kitchens, claw through their refrigerators like animals and consume calories ranging into the thousands.

NYTimes, March 14, 2006-03-14

Abortionist eats babies

A Kansas City abortionist is out of business after investigators discovered a grisly house of horrors at his clinic – with fetuses kept in Styrofoam cups in his refrigerator and one employee accusing him of microwaving one and stirring it into his lunch.

wnd.com, 15 June 2005