| November 21, 2004 | - A plague of locusts, which are kosher, swept through parts of Israel.
| Source:
Wired News
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| August 15, 2004 | - People in Mottola, Italy, made a 2,280-foot-long salami sandwich.
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Telegraph
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| August 13, 2004 | -
Julia Child died.
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New York Times
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| May 31, 2004 | - Armin Meiwes, the famous German cannibal, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.
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Guardian
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| April 22, 2004 | - Police in Mexico arrested a tamale vendor after a dead body was found in his home.
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New York Times
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| February 21, 2004 | - The president's chief economic advisor suggested that fast-food jobs might need to be reclassified. "When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a 'service' or is it combining inputs to 'manufacture' a product?"
| Source:
Newsday
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| February 4, 2004 | -
Halliburton agreed to repay the government for $27.4 million in overcharges for military meals.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 4, 2004 | -
Ricin, a powerful poison made from castor beans, was found in the mailroom of Senate majority leader Bill Frist.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 26, 2004 | - Kay made it clear that the United Nations weapons-inspection process had succeeded in disarming Iraq and said the Iraqis had been reduced to experimenting with ricin, a primitive but deadly poison easily made from fermented castor beans; Kay also said that the CIA had completely misread the situation in Iraq, largely because the agency had no on-the-ground spies after the U.N. inspectors were removed.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 15, 2004 | - People in Indiana were still eating deep-fried cow brain sandwiches. The brains puff up nicely when cooked.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 5, 2004 | -
President Bush spent the first day of the new year killing small birds in Texas; he reportedly resolved to eat fewer desserts.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 1, 2004 | - A car bomb blew up a restaurant in Baghdad.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 29, 2003 | - A psychiatrist declared that Armin Meiwes, the famous German cannibal, is sane but would benefit from psychotherapy.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| December 26, 2003 | - A Swedish
mother was arrested for trying to bake her five-month-old baby.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| December 25, 2003 | - Government and other beef industry officials claimed that there were "firewalls" in place to prevent infectious prions from reaching American hamburgers; Dr. Stanley Prusiner, the Nobel laureate who discovered prions, contradicted those claims and explained that he believes the disease is already widespread in the United States. "They treat the disease as if it were an infection that you can contain by quarantining animals on farms," he said. "It's as though my work of the last 20 years did not exist."
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 16, 2003 | - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice website removed its listing of executed prisoners' last meals. A prison spokesman said the last meals were removed because some people thought they were in "poor taste."
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
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| December 3, 2003 | - A postcard-size dinner menu from the
Titanic
sold for $49,500; the menu listed salmon, consommé mirrette, sweetbreads, roast chicken, spring lamb, golden plover on toast, and peaches.
| Source:
Scotsman.com, Reuters
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| November 23, 2003 | - A German cannibal named Armin Meiwes said he was sorry for killing and eating another man, who supposedly agreed to be eaten and shared a meal of his own penis with his killer. Prosecutors have charged Meiwes with "murder for sexual satisfaction," because cannibalism is not a crime in Germany.
| Source:
BBC
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| November 21, 2003 | - President George W. Bush traveled to Great Britain, along with 650 companions, including five personal chefs, but was unable to move freely in the country because of massive protests. At Buckingham Palace the president dined on roasted halibut with herbs, free-range chicken, potatoes cocotte, salad, and a sorbet bombe but presumably skipped the Puligny-Montrachet and the Veuve Clicquot, Gold Label, 1995. Truck bombs blew up the British Consulate and a British bank in Istanbul, killing at least 27 and wounding hundreds. Bloody victims ran screaming through the streets. Two hotels in Baghdad used by Westerners were bombed as was the headquarters of a pro-American Kurdish group in Kirkuk.
| Source:
New York Times, Daily Telegraph
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| October 22, 2003 | -
German
chemists discovered the secret ingredient in the preservation of Egyptian mummies.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 16, 2003 | - Residents of a mountain village in Fiji apologized to the descendents of an English missionary who made the mistake of touching a chief's head and was cooked and eaten for the insult.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| August 19, 2003 | - Archaeologists found what they believe to be the Donner Party's campsite; they also found what could be physical evidence of cannibalism, a bone fragment with ax marks on it.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 21, 2003 | -
Scientists in Rome concluded that pizza prevents cancer.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 15, 2003 | - A new study found that fast foods with high fat and sugar content "alter brain biochemistry with effects similar to those in powerful opiates such as morphine."
| Source:
Undernews
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| June 9, 2003 | -
Cannibalism was on the rise in North Korea.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
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| April 22, 2003 | -
Pizza Hut and Burger King set up their first Iraqi franchises, on a British military base near Basra.
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| April 22, 2003 | -
Cameroon made it illegal for restaurants to serve gorilla.
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| January 14, 2003 | -
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a global boycott of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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| October 29, 2002 | -
In Vietnam, a man died trying to rescue a co-worker who had fallen into a giant vat of fish sauce; four other workers fell in and passed out from the fumes before they were rescued.
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| December 18, 2001 | - American planes dropped 46,000 pounds of cake on Afghanistan to mark the end of Ramadan.
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| December 18, 2001 | - The Drug Enforcement Agency agreed for the first time in two decades to permit research on the medical effectiveness of marijuana; the agency also decided to ban any food products that contain trace amounts of THC, the active ingredient in pot, which is a problem for many natural-foods companies that use hempseed or hempseed oil in their products. “Pasta, tortilla chips, candy bars, nutritional bars, salad dressings, sauces, cheeses, ice cream, and beer” containing hemp have been banned, but not hats, shirts, lotion, paper, or rope, because they “do not cause THC to enter the human body.”
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| December 11, 2001 | - In Sweden, four teenagers were convicted of treason for hitting the king in the face with strawberry cream cake.
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| November 13, 2001 | - The executive director of the National Frozen Pizza Institute welcomed a federal proposal to drop archaic regulations dictating the ingredients of frozen pizzas.
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| September 11, 2001 | - A 16-year-old boy hit the king of Sweden in the face with a strawberry cream cake.
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| August 7, 2001 | - After two weeks of flying lessons, a Pizza Hut employee took off in an airplane from the Florida Keys on his first solo flight and ended up in Cuba, where he suffered a “hard landing” and was hospitalized.
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| July 31, 2001 | - Three genetically modified pigs stolen from a U.S. university were made into sausage by an unsuspecting butcher.
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| February 13, 2001 | -
Japan banned a Chinese soft drink that contains 64.3 mg of sildenafil, the active ingredient of Viagra, per serving; a Japanese Viagra tablet contains 25-50 mg of sildenafil.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Workers at the Miami Seaquarium made turtle stew from an endangered leatherback sea turtle that died there after it was struck by a boat.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Five teenagers were arrested for beating a pizza delivery man to death for a free meal; the boys left $600 in their victim's pocket.
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