Frivolous lawsuit.
Amanda J. Adam, 26, purchased and consumed beef patties from the Kroger store at 7100 Perimeter Loop on June 4, the suit says. Four days later, she felt ill, and the symptoms worsened over the next two days. Adam spent two days in a Cincinnati hospital and tested positive for E. coli.
She declined interviews through a spokeswoman. Cleveland attorney Nicholas Phillips filed the lawsuit as co-counsel to the Seattle firm Marler Clark.
Shit happens. Grow up and deal with it.
Battle Creek based Kellogg aquires the assets of Zhenghang Food Company which is the leading manufacture of biscuits in the Asian nation. More from a company press release.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Kellogg Company today announced that one of its majority-owned subsidiaries has acquired substantially all of the assets of Zhenghang Food Company Ltd. (“Navigable Foods”), a manufacturer of cookies and crackers in the north and northeastern regions of China.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Navigable Foods’ 2007 net sales were approximately $50 million. Read the rest of this entry »
I know. I’m getting bad. We’ve been going to a lot of fast food chains for lunch recently. It’s not that there aren’t places we want to go, it’s just that we’ve been lazy. We’ll be laying on the couch watching The Price Is Right and one of us will say “I’m hungry.” Since my girlfriend needs to get ready for work, we really can’t drive somewhere and have a sit down meal, so we debate for twenty minutes on which greasy fast food we want. Today, we were almost decided on Wendy’s when I said “Hey, what about Steak ‘N Shake?”
Steak ‘N Shake is one of the few places that make me think of home in Eastern/Central Illinois. Growing up, the 24-hour options were either Denny’s or Steak ‘N Shake. I didn’t really like Denny’s. While living in Central Illinois, I grew more found of the place because of it’s history. The original Steak ‘N Shake was in a gas station in Normal, IL (the home of Illinois State University), so there were Steak ‘N Shake’s all over the place. Read the rest of this entry »
My favorite line from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (the only good movie Keanu Reeves has ever done). The only strange thing right now is that there isn’t one in Lansing! My girlfriend just called me on her way 
home from Kalamazoo and rubbed it in my face that she was stopping at a Circle K. This may sound silly because it is just a gas station, but that, so far, is the thing I miss the most about Peoria. It’s not like their gas is any cheaper or their hot dogs haven’t been in the little roller thing longer. The thing I miss are the Polar Pops! 32 oz. of sugary goodness for $.75. Oh sure, you can argue, who needs that much Pepsi…especially when I would stop at the Circle K twice a day or more, but I’m craving it right now. The cheap styrofoam cups, the crushed ice, and being able to pull three quarters out of my pocket and get a pop. I almost got out of my truck and did a victory dance when I accidently found a Circle K in Ann Arbor near the Big House. That was an exciting day. We used to have Polar Pop runs at my last place of employment. It’s actually pretty sad. My boss was on a first name basis and almost to the point of friends with the clerk at the Circle K in East Peoria, IL he went in there so much. I got to know the overnight guy when I would go to work at 3 am and needed that caffeine fix. I don’t know how something so simple can seem so important, but I really, really, really want a Polar Pop. Circle K….come to Lansing!
I really want to like the Lansing City Market. When we were planning our move to Lansing, both of us were really excited about a year-round farmer’s market that was open a few days a week. In our present situation, there was a market 15 miles away that was only open Saturday mornings from eight to noon from May through September and since my girlfriend worked Saturday mornings, we could never go to the market together. Our first weekend here after the move, we got up early and headed downtown. We had expectations that this was going to be the best thing that ever happened to us. What a disappointment. The vendors were rude and pushy and the selection wasn’t that good. I wasn’t ready to give up though. It was April, so it was still pretty early in the year. I said we’d try again come summer. Well, we tried again at the end of June. The selection was better and the vendors were a little less pushy, but our view of the market didn’t really change much. Read the rest of this entry »
This is the Meijer I usually shop at. I don’t go here often, but when I need something besides grocery, this is usually it. I don’t like going to this store because it’s really hard to get in and out of. It’s situated between Pennsylvania and Cedar which is a wierd enough tract of land as it is, but add in a mega-mart and the roads just get goofy. I’ve found it’s almost impossible to enter off Cedar Street because the ramps from the Interstate merge right in front of the entrance. Your only choice really is to cross traffic on Pennsylvania. Like most other Meijer stores, this place is HUGE and very hard to navigate.
We went to Meijer on this day for two reasons. We had a hundred and five cans to return and we needed charcoal. While I appreciate Michigan’s bottle bill for what it does for the environment, I loathe actually taking the bottles an cans back. I always feel dirty brining garbage bags into a store, but I do like turning them back in at the store because it makes my shopping bill a little lower. It sounds like I’m flip-flopping and I guess I sort of am. There are things I like and things I don’t like, but I am glad Michigan does it. Anyway, the bottle return is visible from the main entrance just past produce. So we wheeled our way around the fruits to get back to the machines. Read the rest of this entry »
“You had the rest, now taste the best” and “taste tells the story” are two phrases you see a lot around the van that doubles as a BBQ shop that sits in the parking lot of American Print and Copy on Saginaw Highway. Curtis is proud of his barbecue and with good reason. I had seen a couple reviews for Curtis Famous Barbecue on the web, but I really wasn’t sure where it was. I was driving on Saginaw Highway one day last week and started smelling it long before I saw it.
My girlfriend and I were being lazy and laying around watching TV one Saturday afternoon. About one o’clock, she said something about being hungry and after seeing Curtis out cooking one day, I really wanted to try it. I was able to find the intersection he usually sits at and put that in the GPS. The thing about Curtis Famous Barbecue is it’s not a restaurant. It’s an old delivery van that Curtis drives there each day and because it’s mobile, he can bring his smoker to fairs and festivals in the area. Read the rest of this entry »
If there’s been one constant on this blog over the past week, it’s been commentors that keep telling me I need to shop at Merindorf Meats. They kept talking about the store in Mason, but somehow, I ended Williamston instead. We were at Frandor Shopping Center where my girlfriend sold some gold. After getting more than she expected, she suggested going to the meat shop everyone kept talking about on the blog. Since we were already out and didn’t have an address, we put “Mason” and “meats” in her GPS. Merindorf popped up, but the Williamston store is the only one that came up. It wasn’t all that far and not being familiar with the area yet, we thought maybe people were saying Mason but it was really in Williamston, so we went. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes I have to wonder what people are thinking. First, there’s a story out of Jackson County where a man assaulted a woman with a 10-lb bag of frozen chicken.
In Jackson County an Ypsilanti man has been charged after stabbing his mother with a fork and assaulting a second woman with ten pounds of frozen chicken.
Prosecutors say Frederick McKaney, 40, stabbed his mother in the back of the neck with a fork Monday night.
About an hour later he hit a woman in the head with a plastic bag of frozen chicken. The woman needed five surgical staples to close her wound.
But the craziness doesn’t stop there. In Maryland, a man robbed a convience store with a banana.
A man walked into a 7-Eleven store in Monrovia just after midnight Wednesday and demanded money. Investigators said that when the clerk refused, the man became so agitated that he started grabbing items off the counter.
He snatched up a banana and began hitting the clerk, the sheriff’s office said.
Oh man. People are stupid.
I hate White Castle. That’s not necissarily a slam on the business. I just don’t like thier slyders. I’m not a huge onion fan and I really don’t like them on or in my burgers. I’m well aware that people travel hours just to get to a White Castle, but I’ve never bought into it. So when my girlfriend said she wanted something greasy for lunch, I was kind of surprised that she said White Castle. I went along with it because this particular location also has a Church’s Chicken. I figured I could get some chicken and she could get whatever greasy concoction her heart desired. Read the rest of this entry »
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