Um, ew.

Dear British people of the world:

This is why you have a bad reputation for food. How does it have so many good reviews? The continental part of my blood is curdling.

Some M&Ms are better for you

You may have thought that M&Ms were all the same -- reds are really no different from greens or blues or whatever. Just a silly artificial coating that most certainly does NOT prevent them from melting in your mouth instead of your hand. But science tells us otherwise: the dye from blue M&Ms (and blue gatorade) can reduce spinal injury in mice (and turn them blue). Pretty cool, huh?

Summer break is over

Since I start work again in a week, I'm going to write off the last two months as summer vacation from my blog (and, frankly, facebook, and most other forms of communication). And now I'm back. With this non-media posting. Oh well -- I guess it takes a while to get back in the swing of things:

Someone is suing Denny's to force them to label the sodium contents of their food. While I'm generally all for information, I think a lawsuit is the wrong way to get it. Over at The Atlantic website, Marion Nestle says that this is about consumer choice -- you can add salt at the table to low-sodium food, but you get no choice if the food is high sodium. Umm... no. Consumer choice is deciding whether to go to Denny's at all. If you can't tell that fast food is salty without being given sodium mg information, you've got health problems a lawsuit isn't going to fix. So go to Denny's, or not. Ask them to publish ingredient information on the threat of not buying their food otherwise. But don't sue, man. It's just going aggravate the lives of my fellow law clerks.