Welcome To The New Normal
If you want the New Normal to end, stop shouting into the void and start shoving this data into the agencies that are supposed to protect you. Send this story — and the Mona Lisa Graph — to three places: the FTC’s Consumer Protection Bureau, your State Attorney General, and your U.S. Representative’s office. Tell them exactly what you now know: diesel prices collapsed, Big Food’s costs didn’t rise, and the CPI never came back down.
National Greasy Foods Day? No, Thanks.
A SpokenFood Commentary Okay, some of these “National Food Days” are harmless fun — a nod to culinary craft, a tip of the glass to wine or champagne, a celebration of the humble meat loaf or the noble French fry or an honoring the national fruit of America: the apple. We go through our culinary […]