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Hot Dogs May Take 36 Minutes of Your Life Away

Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health have found that eating a single hot dog could take 36 minutes off your life.

In their study, published this month in the journal Nature Food, they looked at 5,853 foods in the US diet and measured their effects in minutes of healthy life gained or lost.

The research, which also addressed environmental impacts, found that substituting 10% of daily caloric intake from beef and processed meats with a mix of fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and select seafood could reduce one’s dietary carbon footprint by a third and allow people to gain 48 minutes of healthy life per day.

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Garlic Town, USA 2021 Takes Place in Bennington, Vermont Labor Day Weekend

Bennington, Vermont will transform into “Garlic Town, USA” on Saturday to celebrate of all things garlic.

Bennington’s annual Garlic and Herb Festival is held every year on Labor Day weekend. Two years ago, the festival saw crowds of over 16,000 patrons and 200 garlic-themed vendors.

Due to the COVID pandemic and Vermont restrictions on festivals in 2020, the 25th annual “Garlicfest,” was canceled and the organizers, the Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce, pivoted to a different model in a rebranded, “Garlic Town, USA” event in downtown Bennington.

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Sysco Having Trouble Keeping Shelves Stocked

According to Bloomberg, some of the largest U.S. food distributors are “reporting difficulties in fulfilling orders as a lack of workers weighs on the supply chain.” Take distribution giant Sysco, North America’s largest wholesale food distributor, which is turning away customers in some areas where demand is exceeding capacity.

Worse, food inflation is about to soar: the company said prices for key goods such as chicken, pork and paper products for takeout packaging are climbing amid tight supplies. In particular, production has slowed for high-demand, labor-intensive cuts like bacon, ribs, wings and tenders, Sysco said. And if intermediate and final wholesale prices are “rising”, just wait until they emerge on the consumer side.

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McDonald’s Considers Closing Indoor Seating…Again

Last week, McDonald’s instructed its franchisees on steps they should take to re-close their dining rooms in areas where the Delta variant is rapidly spreading, according to internal company materials seen by Reuters.

“We have a much deeper sense of what actions make a difference for the safety of our restaurant teams and crew,” McDonald’s USA President Joe Erlinger said during a Wednesday meeting, according to the materials.

In Wednesday’s conference call, McDonald’s executives recommended franchisees consider closing indoor seating in counties where COVID cases exceed 250 per 100,000 people on a rolling three-week average.

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Tennessee Taco Bell Employee Allegedly Sets Restaurant On Fire

A Taco Bell employee was arrested on Monday in Nashville, after she and her coworkers allegedly set off fireworks inside the restaurant, causing the building to catch fire as they watched from afar and accidentally locked themselves out.

The incident occurred on July 5, at one of the fast-food chain’s locations in Tennessee’s capital city. But the investigation into how the blaze began took a turn on July 8, when the restaurant’s management called local fire investigators to report that surveillance cameras had captured their employees playing with fireworks inside of the establishment, according to a statement released Monday by the Nashville Fire Department.

“According to the surveillance footage, the employees can be seen locking the doors to the dining room to keep customers from entering the business,” the fire department said in the statement. “The video then shows the employees running around the inside of the store with fireworks in their hands.”

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Kansas Man Arrested Over Chick-fil-A Sauce Incident

Wow…

A 37-year-old Wichita man was arrested after an incident at a Dillons in south Wichita where he lashed out at an employee and threw punches over Chick-fil-A sauce, police said.

“This was all over Dillons having Chick-Fil-A sauce & store refusing to remove it from the shelves,” a person said in a Facebook post on the Wichita Bad Drivers page. “No, I’m not joking either. I was there and this dude went ballistic in the store & obviously as you can see outside.”

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Chick-fil-A Sauce Shortage 2021

Chick-fil-A announced in a statement on Wednesday that industry-wide supply chain issues are impacting “essentially every aspect of the economy.” As a result, the chain has been reduced to a shortage of select items including sauces. To combat the shortage, Chick-fil-A will now only give out one sauce cup per item ordered at most of its U.S. restaurants.

“We are actively working to make adjustments to solve this issue quickly and apologize to our guests for any inconvenience,” the company said.

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