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  • Vanity: Received reply from Darden Restaurants regarding my email to them yesterday...

    09/16/2011 10:37:26 AM PDT · by MNGal · 103 replies
    self | MNGal
    I was so fed up yesterday after hearing that Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurants have been working with Michelle Obama on her "Let's Move" childhood obesity campaign and have decided to no longer offer french fries with children's meal menu items. I mere told them that I didn't appreciate their attempt to usurp my role as a parent, my children should be able to order fries on a night out at a restaurant if they would like to (because we eat nutritiously at home), and in the future my family will be eating at restaurants that honor my freedom...
  • Vanity--Honeyville Grain and their trouble with the USDA

    02/03/2011 3:05:21 PM PST · by MNGal · 8 replies · 1+ views
    Honeyville Grain | 2/3/2011 | Self
    "As many of you know we have been out of stock on our #10 cans of Powdered Whole Eggs and Egg Whites for about 3 months. This has been as a result of working with the USDA on plant and label approval with new stricter requirements with respect to eggs. We've endured numerous delays and setbacks throughout the process. From an email received from Honeyville foods: "About a week ago we had received approval to begin Production. We did so and even had product on UPS trailers ready to be picked up. We got a call from the USDA stating...
  • Daredevils Ignore Sledding Ban at Raynham Hill (Middle School Bans Sledding)

    01/14/2011 8:13:04 AM PST · by MNGal · 28 replies
    WBZ-TV, Boston ^ | January 13, 2011 | Christin Hager
    RAYNHAM (CBS) – Raynham school officials are trying to stop daredevils from sledding down a dangerous hill. The hill behind Raynham Middle School (CBS) “There’s nowhere else as good as this. This is the biggest hill,” explained a teenager who showed us the scrapes on his chin from a fall. The trails on the hill behind Raynham Middle School lead right to a parking lot at the bottom. “It proceeds directly into an area where there are vehicles,” said school committee member Gordon Luciano. “We’ve had incidents where sleds are crashing into vehicles…numerous accidents, ambulance calls.” School officials even sent...