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Teenage DNA Detectives Expose US Fish Fraud (1,233 diggs) Up to a quarter of fish in stores and restaurants in New York City was mislabelled as a more expensive variety, according to samples collected by two US teenagers and tested with genetic "barcoding" methods. In the worst cases, two samples of filleted fish sold as red snapper, caught mostly off the southeast United States and in the Caribbean, were

Small Packages Trick People to Eat More (629 diggs) Two new marketing studies found that some people tend to consume more calories when junk food portions and packages are smaller. For some, it's because they perceive small packages to be ... get this ... diet food.

The Right Age for Drinking (928 diggs) College Officials who have signed on to the provocative proposition that the legal drinking age of 21 isn't working say that they just want to start a debate. Perhaps when they get done with that, they can move on to whether Earth really orbits the sun.

N Korea Develops Special Noodle To Delay Feelings of Hunger (835 diggs) North Korean scientists have developed a new kind of noodle that delays feelings of hunger, a Japan-based pro-Pyongyang newspaper has reported. The noodles were made from corn and soybeans, the Choson Shinbo said. They left people feeling fuller longer and represented a technological breakthrough, the newspaper said.

Pepperoni Hot Pockets Recalled For Containing Plastic (900 diggs) What's that tasty new flavor in your Hot Pocket?

Salads To Get New Dressing - Radiation (562 diggs) U.S consumers worried about salad safety may soon be able to buy fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce treated with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and a few other germs.

Chef on Call: Cooking 101 (Pics) (418 diggs) Chef and cooking-school founder Susan Holt teaches two teenage students to expand their culinary repertoire from scrambled eggs and delivery food to homemade, veggie-heavy meals.

Fake Restaurant Wins Award of Excellence (1,094 diggs) He typed up a menu ( ”a fun amalgamation of somewhat bumbling nouvelle-Italian recipes”) and then put together a wine list, and submitted both to Wine Spectator–along with the $250 fee. The list was approved and given an Award of Excellence.

Metal Screw Found In McDonald's Apple Pie (1,136 diggs) A woman from NY took a bite of a McDonald's apple pie and found a metal screw inside.

5 Reasons to Write Down Everything You Eat For a Week (796 diggs) Quick, what did you eat for lunch on Monday? Ok, stop, you have no idea and neither would I. That's a problem if you are trying to lose or maintain your weight. How do you know what is causing gains and losses if you aren't tracking things? If you need to be coerced,consider these reasons why writing down everything you eat for a week will help.

College drinking debate: 18 or 21? (3,545 diggs) College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.

China's New Found Obsession With Wine (458 diggs) A specter is haunting Western wine geeks: the prospect of 1 billion Chinese people besotted with wine. As China becomes an economic colossus, its increasingly voracious appetite for scarce natural resources will inevitably extend to the world's most sought-after wines.

Drink Outside the Box (553 diggs) Wine in a box makes sense environmentally and economically. Vintners in the United States would be wise to embrace the trend that is slowly gaining acceptance worldwide.

Godzilla Not Inlcluded [PIC] (1,105 diggs) Some might call that false advertising ...

Pizza Hut Sends Spam Email To Apologize For Spam Email (890 diggs) Pizza Hut apologized for sending an unsolicited marketing email by sending an unsolicited apology email. The pizza-maker's flub is all the more egregious because they force customer who place orders online to opt-in to spam marketing. According to Pizza Hut, the error occurred while "testing new functionality."

Research Proves Beer Goggle Effect is Real (560 diggs) Surprisingly, the beer goggle effect wasn't just limited to the opposite sex. The students who imbibed also rated the faces from their own sex more attractive.

WTF? Burger King Tray Liners Feature Cartoon Showing Boobs (1,290 diggs) Meant to parody "Vice City" and Grand Theft Auto, and there's even a mini-sniper game on the campaign's website

The Wedding Cake They Asked For Vs. The Cake Received (2,976 diggs) Unbelievably hilarious.

Top 10 Sustainable Fish Choices and 10 Fish You Should Avoid (698 diggs) Actually it is top ten best fish plus 2. Because I wanted a top ten list, but a lot of these are very commonly available, and I am just trying to make up for the long-winded stuff above.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake (1,936 diggs) "Cream-Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Peanut Butter Frosting and Chocolate Peanut Butter Glaze, but all you really need to know is that if you know a chocolate-and- peanut-butter lover, you must make this cake."

Olive Garden Doesn't Appreciate Playboy Star's Endorsement (548 diggs) Kendra Wilkinson, a 23 year old Playboy cover model, television star and one of Hugh Hefner's three live-in girlfriends, professes deep love for the Olive Garden Italian restaurant chain. The feeling isn't mutual. This doesn't sit well with Olive Garden's marketers, who have spent millions crafting the franchise's family-friendly image.

Swiss Alps Where Cheese Is Still Made Like 300 Yrs Ago PICS (790 diggs) cheesemaking chalet in the Swiss Alps where cheese is still made like 300 years ago.

The 10 Most Delicious Extinct Candies from the '80s (895 diggs) While plebian crap like Dum Dum Suckers and Candy Corn continue to fill up many a sad Trick-or-Treater pumpkin-shaped pail, so many innovative and satisfying candies have died premature deaths, from Abba Zabbas and Fresh Mint Skittles, to hap pappy Uncle Buck. Here are ten of the most delicious extinct candies from the '80s.

When Good Food Goes Bad: How to Tell (821 diggs) While scientists have developed methods to detect spoilage -- for example, sensors that go off when milk changes consistency or a polymer to detect bacteria growth in meat -- until these are available on a mass scale, food science and safety experts have some tips....

McDonald's Charges More With Less Than A "Full" Cup Of Ice (3,087 diggs) I visited this store for the first time. I placed my regular order and when I said "and a Sweet Tea with no ice" I got met with resistance from the cashier and manager.