Free Republic

If you recently bought some American cheese and noticed something wrong, you're not alone. I'm a big Boar's Head fan. Almost every day I have their Ovengold Turkey for lunch. And when it comes to cheese, nothing beats their mild provolone or white American. Recently, however, I was disappointed to find out that there's something different about the American cheese I purchased, and I'm not alone. Last week, my wife was making her signature scrambled eggs and cheese using Boar's Head whole milk white American cheese when we noticed something strange. Parts of the cheese weren't' melting. No matter how...

MENLO PARK, Calif., - A California startup analyzing food on a molecular level announced some hard news about one of the most beloved foods in the United States: 2 percent of hot dogs contain human DNA. Clear Food, the consumer guide wing of Menlo Park startup Clear Labs, said it analysed 345 hot dogs and sausages from 75 brands sold at 10 different retailers and discovered 14.4 percent of the products included ingredients that were not listed on the label. The startup said several of the tested brands had "hygienic" issues. "Hygienic issues occur when some sort of non-harmful contaminant...

Just a heads up if you're shopping for lunch meats between now and election 2008. The owner of Boar's Head brand lunch meats is a *HUGE* donor to the DNC. He has given nearly $200,000 to the DNC since 2003...and nearly $900,000 to Democratic 527 groups in 2004. In 2004, I posted to another forum that he was a very large donor to the Democratic party, and I stated that I was boycotting his brand. Surprisingly, he actually posted a response on the forum, and stated that his "days of political contributions" were over. Apparently, he lied: http://opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=xh9as&txtName=brunckhorst,%20frank&txtState=(all%20states)&txtAll=Y&Order=N If you're...

LEWISTON - No federal charges will be lodged against the city man who rolled a pig's head into a local mosque last year. "We're not going forward with our prosecution," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Halsey Frank said Friday. Brent Matthews, 33, said the frozen head slipped from his hands one night last summer and rolled through the open door of the Lisbon Street storefront that serves as a mosque for members of the Somali community. He was later arrested and charged with the misdemeanor of defacement and desecration of a place of worship. The Maine Attorney General's Office was successful...

By DAVID HACKETT david.hackett@heraldtribune.com Like most major donors to Section 527 organizations, Sarasota's Frank Brunckhorst prefers to let his money do the talking. Brunckhorst, 42, the chairman of Boar's Head Provisions, one of the nation's leading purveyors of deli products, has given more than $900,000 to Democratic causes in the past year. Brunckhorst's emergence as one of the Democrats' money men has surprised local and national leaders from both parties, who said they had never heard of him until he started writing checks for as much as $500,000. "This guy wasn't on any of our radar screens before this year,"...