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3 hrs ago | MSNBC

A screen shot of the McDonald's Italy website shows its "Insalata di Pasta," being offered in Italy.

The fast-food giant is partnering with Italian pasta brand Barilla to serve a pasta salad with tuna, tomatoes, peppers, capers and olives with a price of 4.90 euros.

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Related Topix: Dining, Life, Food, Slow Food

7 hrs ago | WBAY-TV Green Bay

Study: People Underestimate Fast Food Calories

Harvard researchers found adults underestimate the calories in fast food meals by 20 percent, and teens underestimate calorie counts by 34 percent.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Allouez, WI, Scott Walker, US Governors

9 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Oldest living American says TV and fast food keep her 114 years young

But for Jeralean Talley of Inkster, Mich., watching TV and fast food have apparently kept her alive for 114 years.

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Life, Food, Inkster, MI, The Ellen DeGeneres Show

13 hrs ago | KRVN-AM Lexington

McDonald's Stands Behind Its Clown

That was the message Thursday from the fast food chain's chief executive Don Thompson, who defended his company from attacks by the watchdog group, Corporate Accountability International, before a shareholders' meeting.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Don Thompson

Thu May 23, 2013

Common Dreams

Fast Food Forward McDonald's Workers and Supporters Protest...

May 23 - McDonald's shareholders were greeted at the company's annual conference Thursday by a hundred workers and supporters calling for decent wages to support their families, and the right to form a union without interference.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Oak Brook, IL, US News, Liberal Political News

WBIR-TV

Diners badly underestimate calories in fast-food meals

Teens underestimated the calories in fast-food meals by 34%; parents of school-age children by 23%; adults by 20%, says lead researcher Jason Block of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining

PhysOrg Weblog

Consumers largely underestimating calorie content of fast food

People eating at fast food restaurants largely underestimate the calorie content of meals, especially large ones, according to a paper published today in BMJ .

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining

Inside Bay Area

Whopper of a refusal ends with customer shattering Newark Burger King's front window

Police say a mouthy and disgruntled drive-through customer shattered the front window of a busy Burger King after he couldn't get it his way: a Whopper Jr.

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Related Topix: Life, Food

Politico

Farmworkers protest Wendy's in NYC

The protesters said Thursday they want Wendy's to sign an agreement to safeguard working conditions for Florida tomato pickers.

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Related Topix: Life, Food

The Huffington Post

Togo Burger By Seulbi Kim Rethinks Fast Food Packaging

One look at a creation by Seulbi Kim , a student of industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design, and we're smacking our heads thinking, "Why didn't we think of that?" Kim's Togo Burger is a folding cardboard caddy that allows an entire fast food meal to be held with one hand.

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Related Topix: Life, Rhode Island School of Design, Arts, Industrial Design (Product Design)

Serious Eats

We Try the New McCafe Blueberry Pomegranate Smoothie from McDonald's

The hardest part about leaving Serious Eat Head Quarters en route for the nearby Bowery McDonald's is passing Great NY Noodletown, where roast baby pig is nigh impossible to pass up.

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Related Topix: Life, Food

Philly.com

No beef with these chef-made veggie burgers

"I hate the word 'veggie.' I don't even like the word 'burger,' " she says, "and I'm not really into veggie burgers." Like it or not, the veggie burger is everywhere these days, from fast-food chains to hipster hangouts and places in between, including the frozen-food case in the supermarket.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Vegetables, Potatoes, Recipes

The Missoula Independent Online

Flash in the Pan

Why frozen meat is better by Ari LeVaux There is an unfortunate stigma attached to frozen meat, a widely held assumption that it's inferior to fresh meat.

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Related Topix: Life, Food

Fine Cooking

The Science of Grilling Burgers

From fast food drive-throughs to backyard barbecues, a hamburger is the iconic American food.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Hamburger, Beef, Meat

Wed May 22, 2013

AdelaideNow...

Travellers sleep over at McDonald's

Travelers are using the McDonalds fast food outlet near the Jet Base at the Domestic Airport as overnight accommodation for early flights leaving in the morning.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Travel

York Press

McDonald's to appeal over opening hours

FAST food giant McDonald's has appealed against a decision by York councillors to cut opening times at its city-centre restaurant.

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Fermanagh Today

Burger King contract for horsemeat-scandal factory

The new owners of the factory at the centre of the horse meat contamination scandal in Ireland have won a contract for Burger King.

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Cool Hunting

Video Presents: U-Mini Burger: Re-imagining fast food...

The second of our videos to premiere at this year's 99u will definitely get you in the mood for lunch.

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Laughing Squid

Togo Burger, A Folding Cardboard Tote to Hold Fast Food

Rhode Island School of Design industrial design student Seulbi Kim has created the Togo Burger , an innovative folding cardboard device to hold fast food with one hand.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Rhode Island School of Design, Arts, Industrial Design (Product Design)

FiveThirtyEight

Latitude: In Pakistan, Even Jibes About Food Suggest Violent Underlying Divisions

It's a measure of Pakistanis' obsession with eating that even the elections held on May 11 - fiercely contested, marred by violence - are being discussed in culinary metaphors.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Asia, Life