The Great Pumpkin Famine Declared Over: Were you among the masses that raided store shelves this time last year to build a bunker filled with canned pumpkin? Or did you shell out $6-$7 a pop on eBay for a coveted can of the orange stuff? This fall, there’s no need to ration your pumpkin goop.Read more »

Salad Serendipity: Just Salad, a restaurant in Hong Kong and New York City, wants you to find love over lunchtime. The salad purveyor has created a free online dating site for customers, using an algorithm much like the one employed by traditional dating sites. Your soul mate is selected based on “which Just Salad locationRead more »

WWF (World’s Weirdest Foods) Roundup: Truck Edition! The folks at SF Weekly have pulled a traffic report on the most incredibly-named food trucks. From Kim Jong Grillin to the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck to the Dump Truck, these rigs scoop out serious street food alongside a few chuckles. And while it’s unclear what theRead more »

Coffee Prices Drip Up: Here’s a surge that won’t do much for your caffeine levels. Due to poor crops in leading coffee-producing countries, bean prices have reached a 12-year high. Some companies can’t help percolating those rising costs down to customers. [New York Daily News] WWF (World’s Weirdest Foods) Roundup: There are thousands of recipesRead more »

Butter Busts: At the Minnesota State Fair this week, one lucky gal will be crowned the Midwest Dairy Association’s “Princess Kay of the Milky Way.” Along with that honor comes a new kind of solid, golden trophy: The winner will have her likeness carved in a 90 lb. block of butter and get to takeRead more »