sodium benzoate + ascorbic acid (vitamin C) = benzene. suck. yet another reason to avoid drinking a lot of soda.

the food industry's product dating is vague and not very helpful. currently they say things like "best by september 2005". i don't know what that means; it leaves room for doubt: can i eat this? should i eat this? the consumer is unsure.

labels really should offer guidelines with less ambiguity: "best by september 2005; college students eat until april 2006; will kill you after december 2006."

a 7th-grade student did an experiment with some stomach-turning results.

Jasmine Roberts:
"I found that 70-percent of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water."

ew. i'm not getting ice from restaurants anymore.

woohoo, aussie shit on a shingle!

australians are weird.

and has anyone else actually had vegemite? i remember trying it in 8th grade or thereabouts, and i still remember the atrocious odor and worse, the salty anchovy meets feces taste. truly, vegemite makes baby jesus vomit.