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  • Bright Lights, Big Chicken: Remember when it was trendy to own a Chihuahua, a pug, or, for a brief moment in the late 80s, a hermit crab as a pendant around your neck? These days the hot pet is none other than a chicken. If you’ve got the space, they’ve got the time, and can be found clucking away in urban gardens across the nation. In interviewing chicken expert J. Linden about the benefits of our feathered cronies, I initially misheard her reference to “tilling the seed” as “killing the scene”, but it appears poultry do both. They also provide rich compost, function as garbage disposals, and create eggs full of Omega-3.  Per Linden, “You can pet them…the rooster is the mean one, not the chicken”.
  • Daddy, I want the golden ticket! In 2007 Oregon passed a law prohibiting the sale of junk food on school grounds. Now some teachers are complaining about having their access to soda and candy bars restricted. Teachers and students alike are allowed to pack these items in their lunches, but apparently teachers work too hard to remember to do this. Let me get this straight: you are so obsessed with soda that you are crusading to have a vending machine put in your lounge, yet you can’t remember to bring a can with you in the morning? Don’t you have anything else to complain about? Better wages, perhaps??
  • Is she a teacher in Oregon? A woman called 911 because Burger King wasn’t making her burger. “You’re supposed to be here to protect me”, she tells the operator. The operator’s answer: “What are we protecting you from, a wrong cheeseburger?”
  • Chocolate falso: The Hershey Company – the nation’s largest candy manufacturer – is closing its plant in Reading, PA and moving to Mexico. I guess this move closer to cacao’s regional origins would make sense if Hershey products actually contained real chocolate instead of vegetable oil.
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    2 Responses to “News Bites”

    1. Johanna says:
      March 3, 2009 at 1:45 pm

      so cool Stephania, thanks for sending this to me. great writing.

    2. News Bites | BODA Blog says:
      March 5, 2009 at 2:11 pm

      [...] Finest: If you read last week’s News Bites you may recall some woman called 911 because Burger King wasn’t making her burger. Now, [...]

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  1. so cool Stephania, thanks for sending this to me. great writing.

    Comment by Johanna — March 3, 2009 @ 1:45 pm

  2. [...] Finest: If you read last week’s News Bites you may recall some woman called 911 because Burger King wasn’t making her burger. Now, [...]

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