It may not be the most romantic setting imaginable, but a Wal-Mart store in
Dortmund, Germany, is attracting a new market of shoppers — those looking
for love. The store hosted its first singles shopping event last year, and
the concept has become so popular that every Friday night at the store is
singles night, with single shoppers identified by carts with bright red
bows. The Wall Street Journal
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SIAL 2004 report from Just Food com
https://www.just-food.com/features_detail.asp?art=915&lk=rss
SIAL Paris is the world’s second-largest food show and the largest food show to be held this year as it alternates with ANGUA in Germany every other year. This year its three halls divided into six food areas contained over 5200 exhibitors from 98 countries and offered 15 product sectors and numerous sub-categories of foods and beverages. [Read more…] about SIAL 2004 report from Just Food com
Slender servings
https://www.washingtontimes.com/business/20041013-092341-4568r.htm
Smaller portions are the newest focus in the food industry’s quest for convenient, ready-to-eat foods, said analyst Miss Smith of Argus Research Co., a New York research firm.
“But there is a limit for small-portion sizes. People aren’t going to buy a small bag of chips if they get maybe three or four chips. They’ll buy a bigger bag and try to moderate their snacking,” she said.
Still, food and beverage companies have jumped on the small-serving bandwagon.
Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream sells mini-ice-cream pops. Coca-Cola sells 12-ounce and 10-ounce bottles, while Pepsico. Inc. sells 8-ounce cans and 10-ounce bottles for people with less thirst.
Coca-Cola’s six-pack of 10-ounce bottles costs $3.49, while the price of the regular six-pack of 24-ounce bottles is $4.99. Pepsi’s 10-ounce bottles are $2.99 for a six-pack, while its six-pack of 24-ounce bottles costs $3.99.
Even restaurants have taken note.
Quiznos Sub restaurants offer 16-ounce sandwiches with 4.5-ounce minimelts for customers who want less.
McDonald’s Corp. earlier this year said it would phase out its supersize portions. The decision followed government pressure and attacks from health advocates and trial lawyers who sought to pin some of the obesity blame on the fast-food chain.
The hamburger giant also offers smaller sizes of its popular items, such as small french fries and side salads, on its $1 menu.
High in protein, low in fat – it's chargrilled super guinea pig
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/24/wmmmmm24.xml
To most people they are lovable pets, but guinea pigs could soon be on the menu at British restaurants after the development of a “superpig” designed to offer diners a nutritious low-fat meal.
The new “Raza Peru” variety has been bred by scientists in Lima, who say that it contains more protein and less cholesterol than beef, pork, lamb or chicken.
The animal has already been sent for consumption in America, Spain and Japan, and exporters say they are ready to market it in Britain if there is sufficient demand.
Vegan, "cruelty-free" fashions .
https://reveries.com/cool_news/2004/november/nov_2b.html
“Hopefully, we will change people’s minds about what a vegan looks like,” says Jeremy Crown, “owner of Otsu, a San Francisco store selling vegan accessories,” as reported by Ruth La Ferla in The New York Times. “A lot of people still assume we are granola hippies or that we are overtly political,” Jeremy adds. But Jeremy and others are tapping into a market for “cruelty-free” fashions that apparently is expanding beyond “the roughly six million Americans who call themselves vegetarians.” The attraction, at least in part, is that prices of animal-free goods “are often 60 percent to 75 percent lower.”
"The People's Republic of Starbucks
https://reveries.com/cool_news/2004/october/oct_29a.html
Shanghai Surprise II. Back in the 1940s, it was known as the “Paris of the East,” but today some are calling Shanghai, “The People’s Republic of Starbucks,” reports Veronica Gould Stoddart in USA Today. Consider this: In “the room where Mao founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921,” is “now a yuppified entertainment complex of restored traditional houses called Xintiandi,” where “tourists, expats and moneyed Shanghainese, palming cellphones, pack its hot jazz clubs and cooler-than-cool eateries to dine on risotto of mud crab with black Chinese truffles.” Even more dramatic is the change in Shanghai’s skyline.
Cholesterol-lowering beer
https://www.foodnavigator.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=55869-cholesterol-lowering-beer
Cholesterol-lowering beer ready for scale-up
A new Swedish start-up has developed a brewing process that produces a beer with cholesterol-lowering properties.
The patented process uses oats rather than barley and through special enzyme technology results in a product rich in beta-glucans, fibres shown in research to have a beneficial effect on cholesterol levels.
The company, Aventure, says it is the first in a range of healthy beers, with further ideas in the pipeline.
Drinks pour on nutrition to appeal to parents
https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2004-10-24-kids-drinks_x.htm
The $90 billion beverage world is figuring out that parents will pay premiums for more nutritious drinks for their kids.
Every beverage maker seems to be leaping on board – from Pepsi to Snapple to Stonyfield Farm. But this isn’t about creating soft drinks with less sugar. It’s about drinks that could pass the parent test. It’s also about sales growth. And it’s about schools slamming the door on soft drinks. [Read more…] about Drinks pour on nutrition to appeal to parents