Let's chew on the latest freaky food news.
Hardee's
Home of the limited-time hardy hybrid sandwiches (like the recent Most American Thickburger stuffed with a hot dog and potato chips), Hardee's has done it again, introducing the Grilled Ham 'N' Cheese Thickburger. It features "four slices of melting American and Swiss cheeses and thinly sliced ham piled atop a charbroiled, 100 percent Black Angus beef patty, with just the right amount of mayonnaise and mustard, all sandwiched between two slices of grilled bread." Like the commercial says, it's essentially a hamburger inside a grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich.
That's one way to put the ham in hamburger.
Oreos
Want S'more oddball Oreos? S'mores Oreos -- the graham-cracker-flavored cookies with half chocolate and half marshmallow filling -- are out now. Not just cookies, they are a Lyme disease prevention solution, rendering camping totally unnecessary, until they disappear in a limited-time-only poof. Summer flavors come out in July; there will be Blueberry Pie (sold at Target) and there will be cereal-inspired Fruity Crisp (sold everywhere). Breakfast Oreos!
What do you call an Oreo served during the most important meal of the day? One smart cookie!
Hostess with the mostest
Following a recall by its flour supplier Grain Craft, Hostess voluntarily recalled some 710,000 cases of baked goods -- including cupcakes and doughnuts. At issue was "undeclared peanut residue in certain snack cake and donut products" baked with the recalled flour.
In other words, Ding Dong drama was caused by ding-a-lings.
Baby food diet
It's rumored that celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson put Jennifer Aniston on a baby food diet -- requiring her to eat 14 servings of baby food a day, followed by a healthy dinner. Before you go stocking up on Gerber's Chicken Itty-Bitty Noodle Dinner, know that the 47-year-old actress, who says she has not worked with Anderson, denied it to People: "Sorry, but the last time I had baby food, I believe I was 1. I've been on solids for about 40 years now."
Still, slobbering and crawling and playing with your food more than eating it could prove slimming.
Celebrity bites
Still, we shouldn't be following celebrities when it comes to food, says New York University researcher Marie Bragg, who released a study last week in the journal Pediatrics. It deemed 81 percent of the food and 71 percent of the drinks endorsed by celebrities like Pepsi-pusher Katy Perry, McDonald's-lovin' Justin Timberlake and Hot Pocket-pimping Snoop Dogg as total junk.
Not Snoop Dogg! He sings about fruit. No, wait, that's "Gin and Juice."
Pop Tarts
Pop. Tarts. I see what they did there. The newest "Soda-Mazing" flavors of Kellogg's toaster pastries have a pop or soda (we call it "Coke" here) tie-in. There's the Frosted A&W Root Beer and the Frosted Crush Orange. Drinking soda has gotten a bad reputation, so why not try eating it?
Since the pastries seem to be drawing inspiration from their own name. What will the next flavor be? Tuna Tart-tare?
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Style on 06/12/2016