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Consumer rights' advocates filed a lawsuit against McDonald's fast food chain in Russia. The lawsuit was filed at Moscow's Tverskoy Court. The plaintiffs intend to oblige the company to indicate the complete list of ingredients on packaging, rather than the content of protein, fat and carbohydrates. Representatives of the Consumer Rights Protection Society claim that concealing the content of products the company violates the status of the retail outlet of finished products, not to mention the fact that it misleads consumers. According to experts, the range of milkshakes, which the chain sells, can not be referred to as "milk" under...

How much force needs to be with you to eat a black burger? The Belgian fast food chain Quick is celebrating the upcoming "Phantom Menace 3D" movie premiere by launching a line of "Star Wars"-themed burgers. The burgers will debut in Quick restaurants throughout France on January 31, just before the film's February release in the country. Despite being in French, the ads for the burgers have sent the entire Internet into a tailspin of equal parts repulsion and curiosity.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The White Castle hamburger chain is sipping on the idea of selling alcoholic beverages at its restaurants. The 90-year-old company is testing beer and wine sales at a location in Lafayette, Ind., that combines a traditional White Castle burger joint with a Blaze Modern BBQ, a new restaurant concept also being tried out. In other cities, Columbus, Ohio-based White Castle is testing an Asian food concept and a restaurant that serves grilled sandwiches.

NAPLES — Thomas Monaghan's dream is about to be delivered. The founder of Domino's Pizza and Ave Maria University soon will open his first hamburger delivery business in Naples. The store — at 51 Ninth St. S. a few blocks north of Fifth Avenue South — is expected to open in mid-December. Another store is in the works at 93rd Avenue North and U.S. 41, near Joe's Diner in North Naples. "We want to get these two perfected before we sign any more leases," said Monaghan, 74. His latest venture goes by the name Gyrene Burger. He hopes to build...

Heart Attack Grill Owner Serves 8,000-Calorie BurgerBy Mikaela Conley | ABC News – Tue, Oct 11, 2011 If you’re going to laugh in the face of obesity by opening a restaurant that serves an 8,000-calorie burger, you might as well open it in Sin City. And that’s just what Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso is doing. On Wednesday, the owner opens the doors to his third Heart Attack Grill location, this time in Las Vegas. The restaurant offers a Quadruple Bypass Burger that contains four beef patties, cheese, bacon and reportedly, about 8,000 calories. Along with its staple sandwich,...

I apologize if I am not posting in the correct forum or doing anything else incorrectly, but this is my first Free Republic post. I am on the email list for The Counter Burger which is a glorified burger joint. We've eaten there in the past and so I signed up for their email list. Yesterday, I received an email from them that made me believe they are now using their email list as a propaganda machine instead of a restaurant email list. The email was one image that was CLEARLY an allusion to the Obama campaign - the exact...

The restaurant will open its first two area locations — in Frisco and Allen — at 10:30 a.m.

WACO, Texas, March 25 (UPI) -- A young Texas woman decided there is no such thing as bad publicity when she considered names for her Waco eatery and decided on Fat Ho Burger. The restaurant opened Tuesday, and Lakisha Evans' plan seems to be working so far, KENS-TV in San Antonio reported. She has a straightforward business plan. "My burgers, they're cheap. They don't go over 6 bucks because I thought, you know, I grew up in poverty," Evans said. Evans, 23, grew up in Waco with her mother and five siblings. She is the only one in the family...

Only in Louisiana... Thick, handmade ground beef patties topped with sharp cheddar cheese... wrapped in a bacon weave... then add hotdogs as the heads and legs, slit for details... Next, place on an oven rack, covered loosely with foil and bake 20-30 minutes @ 400 degrees.  A little crispy, not too crunchy...just how a turtle should be, no? If you've got to ask the cholesterol count... this might not be the dish for you lolMore at Reaganite Republican

More than two-thirds of New York City's public school students will begin getting more nutritious free or low-cost school lunches under First Lady Michelle Obama's pet project to get kids to eat well and exercise. President Obama signed into law Sunday the $4.5 billion Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which expands the free lunch program and requires that schools provide more nutritious lunches. "We've seen the connection between what kids eat and how well they perform in school," he said. Some 680,000 out of 1.1 million New York children participate in the school lunch program - a big chunk of the...

A concerned Blue Star Mother was told by a spokeswoman for Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) that Waxman “did not intend to assist insurgents” in Iraq when he provided a diplomatic letter in December 2004 to Code Pink’s parent organization Global Exchange. However, Waxman apparently made no effort to ensure the reported $100,000 in cash and $500,000 in humanitarian aid was not delivered to terrorists, even after Code Pink and Global Exchange co-founder Medea Benjamin bragged at the time that the aid was intended for families of the “other side” in Fallujah. (Top Democrat fundraiser and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans...

Oh my: Michelle Obama electioneering in polling place? posted at 7:15 pm on October 14, 2010 by Allahpundit regular view When Drudge puts up the red font — with italics, no less — we’re almost obliged to blog it, aren’t we? I’m … outrageously outraged?

If it looks like a pizza, and smells like a pizza, it might very well be ... the newest overstuffed offering from the folks at Burger King. The NY Pizza Burger, expected to debut early next month in midtown, features a gut-busting four broiled Whopper burgers. It's topped with pepperoni, mozzarella and marinara sauce, all stacked on a 9-1/2-inch sesame seed bun. The burger is cut into six pizza-style slices, allowing diners to share the agita and the ecstasy. The massive meal will join the menu at the Whopper Bar in Times Square, the new 24-hour, seven-day-a-week flagship fast food...

Dentists urged fast food restaurants to label signs on their gigantic burger products to warn consumers against over-extend their mouths to eat such food, local media reported yesterday. Many diners had to see dentists for jaw-related issues after consuming beef burgers served by two fast food chains, whose sizes are larger than normal, said Hsu Ming-lun, associate professor of the School of Dentistry of National Yang-Ming University. Some of them faced sore jaws and some even had difficulties opening their mouths; both are typical symptoms of Temporomandibular dysfunction, an injury related to jaws, added Hsu. People normally have their mouths...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have made a surprise visit to a popular hamburger spot just outside the nation's capital.....

Appropriately revered west coast burger chain In-N-Out Burger is making an unprecedented expansion into Dallas, Texas. The chain has infamously not expanded beyond the Western states of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah, as In-N-Out trucks in its meat from a central facility and has resisted reorganizing that structure in order to accomodate farther reaching locations (for a visual explanation of the process, see this graphic at the Orange County Register).

American fast food chain Burger King will cease making its famous Whoppers in Israel, almost 20 years after opening in the Jewish state. Orgad Holdings, Burger King's Israeli franchise, announced Sunday that Israel's 52 Burger Kings will be converted to Burger Ranches, and will stop operating in August. A press release by the company – which owns both restaurant chains – said their research indicates that Israelis prefer the taste of Burger Ranch to that of Burger King. Among both, many eateries are kosher.

The Minnesota Twins on Monday announced they will serve Vincent - A Restaurant’s popular hamburger at Target Field, the latest in a series of local menu items that will be featured on the menu at the new ballpark. Vincent’s burger is made with Angus beer and stuffed with braised short rib and smoked gouda cheese. It was named the best burger in Minnesota by Food Network Magazine in 2009, and the best gourmet burger in Minneapolis by CityPages.com in 2007.

<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Burger King employee in north Florida has been arrested and charged after two sandwiches he made were found to have hydrocodone pills in them.</p>

A British fast-food restaurant is hailing its signature dish, the Super Scooby, as the country's largest and most fattening burger. Officials with the Jolly Dryer restaurant in Bristol, England, said the 2,645-calorie burger includes four 1/4-pound beef patties, eight strips of bacon, eight cheese slices, 12 onion rings, three sauces and a generous serving of lettuce, Sky News reported Monday. Nick Lomvardos, 42, owner of the restaurant, said the 3.3 pound sandwich has yet to leave a customer hungry. "None of our customers have ever been disappointed by the Super Scooby," he said. "We have never heard of a bigger...