Month: July 2014

Rudi Appl, a bartender at Mr. Henry’s in Capitol Hill for nearly five decades, died early this morning. He was “just sitting in his chair,” says Mr. Henry’s owner Alvin Ross. “He really had not been well. He had a pacemaker and had heart issues.” Appl worked his last shift about a month ago to celebrate his 80th birthday. […]

Lay’s Do Us A Flavor contest to determine the newest Lay’s flavor is back for its second year, and we tried the contestants so you don’t have to. From a pool of more than 14 million submissions, Frito-Lay’s finalists for the competition are: Cheddar Bacon Mac & Cheese, Mango Salsa, Wasabi Ginger, and Cappuccino. It’s a total grab-bag of flavor profiles, but then again, so was last year’s group: Chicken & Waffles, Sriracha and Cheesy Garlic Bread.

This year’s Do Us A Flavor chips will be on shelves from July 28 through October 18, during which time chip-lovers can vote for their favorite flavor. The winner will not only become the next Lay’s flavor, but the person who submitted the idea for the flavor will win $1 million. After trying the chips, we’re not sure any of them qualify as a million dollar idea…

Here’s what we at HuffPost Taste and some of our fellow editors at The Huffington Post thought about the new Lay’s flavors:

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A London lawyer complained that he bought a candy bar with a penis-like shape imprinted on it — and Nestle actually apologized.

Robin Jacobs, 31, said he was eating a Milkybar during Sunday’s World Cup final and was stunned to see what he called an “inappropriate” image.

“What on earth is a penis doing on a kids’ chocolate bar?” he asked, per Metro. “There’s no point denying what it looks like. It is obvious –- we can all see it.”

This wasn’t the first time a customer had noticed the phallic design on the Milkybar. Here’s a tweet from 2012 mentioning the suggestive shape on the candy bar:

Penis shapes on the milky bar chocolate?!?! pic.twitter.com/jX656BCA

— Ria (@arianwin) July 14, 2012

Jacobs reportedly griped he will now remember the 2014 World Cup for the “Milkybar penis.” He said he ate the candy anyway, outlets noted.

Nestle sent the following statement to The Huffington Post:

Nestlé is surprised and sorry to hear that Mr. Jacobs thought the picture on the Milkybar resembles male genitalia, it is in fact an image of a horse’s head, the Milkybar Kid’s horse. There was no intention to mislead or depict anything offensive on our product and we apologise for any confusion or embarrassment this may have caused.

“Weird Al” Yankovic is no stranger to food-based parodies (where would he be without “Eat It?”), but his spoof of Lorde’s song, entitled “Foil,” is about so much more than leftovers.

In the third release off his new album, “Mandatory Fun,” Weird Al te…

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The mother of a Massachusetts Taco Bell employee charged with using a BB gun to shoot a belligerent customer upset at poor service is a “good man and hard worker” who was defending himself.

Steven Noska was released on $250 bail after pleading not guilty Tuesday to charges including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Springfield police say the 26-year-old Noska used a BB gun he retrieved from is car to shoot a customer who was enraged when no one came to the drive-thru window to take his order at 4 a.m. Sunday. The customer also allegedly banged on the locked front door.

Noska’s mother, Mary-Elizabeth Bewsee, tells the Boston Herald (http://bit.ly/WhppYT ) that the customer got inside and started knocking items off the counter, then attacked her son on the outside.

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Information from: Boston Herald, http://www.bostonherald.com

by guest blogger Robyn O’Brien, author and former financial and food-industry analyst

The Grocery Manufacturers Association is the voice of more than 300 leading food, beverage, and consumer-product companies, but is it a relic of the 20th century?
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