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Why fast food industry watchers expect big discounts in the first half of 2025

Bourbon St. Grill is trying to lure them in with a pair of beef or chicken Jamaican patties for $5 and a “budget-friendly” meal for students priced at $10.99.

Nearby, New York Fries is hoping a $7.49 hotdog and pop combo designed for “lunchfast, lupper or snacktime” will do the trick, and over at Sansotei Ramen, it’s all about an offer knocking $2 off tonkotsu or spicy tan tan.

This onslaught of promotions has taken shape at just about every fast-food joint across the country, and the phenomenon has intensified into what industry watchers have dubbed a “value war.”

They’re predicting the battle for your buck isn’t going away anytime soon and may even hit new heights next year.

“It’s going to be at least the first six months of 2025, when we’re going to be seeing elevated promotions, but it’s likely going to be the entire 2025,” said Danilo Gargiulo, investment research firm Bernstein’s senior analyst specializing in restaurants.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Economy, food

FDA may outlaw food dyes ‘within weeks’: Bombshell move would affect candy, soda and cakes, revolutionize American diets

The Food and Drug Administration will decide on a ban of certain food dyes in the coming weeks after receiving a petition to review the safety of Red 3, NBC News reports.

“With Red 3, we have a petition in front of us to revoke the authorization board, and we’re hopeful that in the next few weeks we’ll be acting on that petition,” Jim Jones, the deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA, said during a Senate meeting this week, per NBC.

According to the FDA, the agency has reviewed the safety of Red 3 —which is derived from petroleum and found snacks, beverages, candy and more — in food and drugs “multiple times” since it was first approved in 1969, but the petition has requested for the additive to be reviewed once more.

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Making Spirits Bright: Your Super Happy Fun Aperitif Post

 

It’s the time of year to unwind.

 

Start one’s party with some festive mocktails:

 

Christmas Mimosa (as seen above)

  • 2 parts non alcoholic sparkling wine or alternative
  • 1 part cranberry juice
  • 1 rosemary sprig or cranberries to garnish optional
  • Pour 2 parts wine and 1 part cranberry juice into a champagne flute and garnish with rosemary and/or cranberries. Serve immediately. If you don’t drink alcohol free wine, it can easily be replaced with soda water, kombucha or ginger beer.

Christmas Punch

  • 6 cups cranberry juice or pomegranate cranberry juice*
  • 3 cups pineapple juice**
  • 1 Tbsp almond extract
  • 3 liters ginger ale
  • 1 (12 oz.) bag fresh cranberries (optional)
  • 2 fresh limes, sliced (optional)
  • Ice
  • Pour cranberry juice, pineapple juice, and almond extract into a large drink dispenser and mix. Pour in ginger ale and give it one quick stir.
  • Add in cranberries, ice and ginger ale. Serve within a few hours for best results as it will start to go flat.

 

If one would prefer to partake:

White Christmas Mojito

Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup of lime juice
  • 1/4 cup of packed mint leaves, plus more for garnish
  • 1/2 cup of sugar
    1/2 cup of white rum
  • 1/2 cup of coconut rum
  • 1 cup of canned coconut milk
  • sparkling water
  • pomegranate arils

Instructions:

  1. In a larger pitcher, muddle the mint leaves in the sugar and lime juice.
  2. Using a strainer, remove the muddled mint leaves (optional).
  3. Fill four glasses halfway full with ice and fill 3/4 full with coconut rum mixture.
  4. Top off each glass with sparkling water. Garnish with mint leaves and pomegranate arils and enjoy!

 

 

(Sidebar: do not drink and drive.)

 

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by Osumashi••0•Posted inAlcohol, Christmas, food

U of T report says almost 6 million Canadians experienced food insecurity in 2021

A new report by University of Toronto (U of T) researchers found that almost six million Canadians experienced food insecurity in 2021.

The Household Food Insecurity in Canada 2021 study, led by U of T nutritional sciences professor Valerie Tarasuk’s research group PROOF, used data from 54,000 households in Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey.

The report found that 5.8 million people, including 1.4 million children, lived in households facing food insecurity. The total number amounts to the equivalent of 15.9% of households across the 10 Canadian provinces.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Economy, food

Bill Gates is quietly carrying out a sinister plan to force you to eat Fake Meat

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest charitable foundation in the world, has an agricultural agenda that supports agrochemicals, patented seeds, fake meat and corporate control — interests that undermine regenerative, sustainable, small-scale farming. One of the key players in this agenda is the widespread adoption of synthetic meat.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Comply!", Batshit crazy lefties, food, Global Warming Hoax

Trudeau Moves Ahead With WEF’s Plan To Abolish Farms by 2030

Following a meeting of federal and provincial officials on Friday, the Alberta and Saskatchewan Ministers of Agriculture expressed “profound disappointment” over Trudeau’s decision to attempt to reduce nitrogen emissions from fertilizer in the name of “fighting climate change.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Climate Change, food, Food shortage, Global Warming Hoax, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, WEF

Trudeau Is Stoking A Canadian Farmers’ Rebellion With His Attack On The Use Of Fertilizer

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is pushing forward with imposing requirements on Canadian farmers to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizers, the same reduction mandates that have caused farmers in the Netherlands to engage in mass protests.

The Liberals are arguing that their 30 percent nitrous oxide reduction target is purely about emissions and not fertilizer, but it would be impossible to meet those targets the government wants to implement without cutting back on the use of fertilizer, which is the biggest contributor to emissions.

Despite widespread outrage from provincial agricultural ministries, Marie-Claude Bibeau, the federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Foods, said that she believes farmers will go along with the 30 percent reductions willingly.

Gonna party like it’s 1789.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inAuthoritarianism, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Economy, food, Food shortage

Regulated fertilizer reduction would cost Canadian farmers $48 billion by 2030

Fertilizer Canada has released details of a report, compiled by Meyers Norris Penny (MNP), that aims to outline the significant impact a regulated reduction in nitrogen fertilizer use would have on farmers’ bottom lines.

The Government of Canada has announced an “aspirational” goal of 30 per cent absolute emissions reduction target for on-farm fertilizer use by the year 2030. While the government has not announced that the reduction will be achieved through regulatory restrictions on fertilizer use, MNP’s report explores what the potential outcome would be to the farm economy if it did.

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Trudeau government targets grain growers as worst emissions offenders

A Trudeau government report is putting farmers next on the carbon emissions chopping block, using UN data that accuses Canadian grain growers of producing crops with the highest “emissions intensity” in the world.

A new “discussion document” released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada titled “Reducing emissions arising from the application of fertilizer in Canada’s agriculture sector” singles out wheat, barley and other cereal producers for emission reductions.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Climate Change, food, Food shortage, Global Warming Hoax, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

After Oil Production, Trudeau Works To Decimate Canadian Farm Industry

“The anger over the Trudeau government’s plan to have farmers use less fertilizer hasn’t boiled over in this country like it has across the Netherlands, but it’s getting there.”

So states an article recently published in the Toronto Sun. When considering broader context of the war against carbon emissions, CAP arrive at an intriguing hypothesis:

With carbon reduction as rationalization, Justin Trudeau wields the power to control our national destiny. In the name of fossil fuel emissions, our Liberal government has the ability to destroy segments of our economy, and indeed entire industries.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, food, Global Warming Hoax, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Quick and Easy Sub Tacos

I made these Friday night and we liked them so much we had them again this evening, only larger. They contain flour tortilla shells, salami, swiss cheese, grated taco cheese mix, pastrami, pepperoni, mayo, horseradish mustard, lettuce, tomatoes, green and black olives, salt, fresh ground pepper, and Marzetti Sweet & Sour dressing over the lettuce and tomatoes. Super easy and can be made and refrigerated in advance. Just fold them in half and add a toothpick or two if needed. The wine is Chateau Ste. Michelle Riesling – highly recommended.

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