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	<title>Population Statistic &#187; Food</title>
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		<title>A FROZEN SLIP OF THE LIP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/24/a-frozen-slip-of-the-lip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/24/a-frozen-slip-of-the-lip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mental note for next winter: Stock up on plastic utensils.
Or invest in less ice cream. Or in more common sense. Anything to avoid a repeat of last night&#8217;s dining debacle: Tearing off a thin chunk of my lower lip when I used a metal spoon to eat dessert (that whole tongue-on-frozen-pole effect). Along with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DENTYNE&#8217;S DESIGNER PLASTIC-WRAP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/dentynes-designer-plastic-wrap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/dentynes-designer-plastic-wrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Livin']]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t chew gum.
So why is there a picture of Dentyne gum in this post? Simple: Dentyne&#8217;s marketers reached out to me for some blog-vertising action (just one of a recent spate of requests to come this way). They sent on two &#8220;bottles&#8221; worth of the gum, so I guess I&#8217;m obliged.
That&#8217;s one thing: &#8220;Bottles&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRIPLE FORTUNE IN A COOKIE SHELL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/triple-fortune-in-a-cookie-shell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/triple-fortune-in-a-cookie-shell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ponder the inequities of existence, condensed into my Chinese-food dinner last night:
My fortune cookie had not one, but three fortunes tucked inside it. Meanwhile, the empty fortune cookie remains bereft of any paper-slip of wisdom (plus lucky numbers on the back!).
Then again, my triplicate-bearing treat was quickly gobbled up by yours truly. The EFC, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PEGU-EGG-YOU CLUB</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/04/the-pegu-egg-you-club/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/04/the-pegu-egg-you-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once the province of boxers in training, raw eggs have been a chic ingredient in New York City cocktails for the past year. So it was only a matter of time before the city cracked down on all this eggshell-cracking mixology:
Nevertheless, on that fateful evening, an inspector from the New York City Department of Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT WAS THAT, OR WHITE BREAD</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/it-was-that-or-white-bread/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/it-was-that-or-white-bread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For lack of a more colorful dish &#8212; or, for that matter, ethnicity &#8212; The Bloggess goes back to culinary basics to represent her down-South heritage:
For Hailey&#8217;s Multi-Cultural Day party at her school all the other parents brought food for the party indicative of their culture. I showed up with a plate of crackers. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CAVEMAN-BLOODLETTING DIET</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/10/the-caveman-bloodletting-diet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/10/the-caveman-bloodletting-diet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the lifestyle habits of the modern-day urban paleolithic hipster, committing to the raw foods and infrequent eating schedules of our Stone Age ancestors isn&#8217;t the weird part. Here&#8217;s what is:
Another caveman trick involves donating blood frequently. The idea is that various hardships might have occasionally left ancient humans a pint short. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SARAH SILVERMAN CELEBRITY NON-SIGHTING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/08/sarah-silverman-celebrity-non-sighting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/08/sarah-silverman-celebrity-non-sighting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
At one point during dinner last night at La Bonne Soupe (where I, somewhat ironically, did not have the soup), I was convinced that Sarah Silverman was sitting just a couple of tables over.
Then the woman got up to leave, and I could see clearly that it wasn&#8217;t her. I mean, it was certainly her, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOLSON 67: ENGINEERING PATRIOTIC CALORIES?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/25/molson-67-engineering-patriotic-calories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/25/molson-67-engineering-patriotic-calories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interestingly, beermaker Molson Canadian recently rolled out a low-calorie brewski called Molson 67. The number in the name refers to the calorie-count per bottle.
I find that interesting because, being a student of history, I instantly recognized that &#8220;67&#8243; as a reference to 1867, the year that Canada&#8217;s nationhood was established. Invoking the year of independence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RABBIT RIESLING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/24/rabbit-riesling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/24/rabbit-riesling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
For Thanksgiving, I&#8217;ve taken it upon myself to meet the needs of both the generational extremes that will converge at my mother&#8217;s house this Thursday. Translation: I bought a small batch of toys and games for my little nephews, so that they&#8217;re sufficiently occupied-slash-out of our hair; and I sprung for the wine, so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A JARRING VEGEMITE STUNT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/03/a-jarring-vegemite-stunt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/03/a-jarring-vegemite-stunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
If Kraft Foods Australia learned anything from the strident, New Coke-like public backlash to its recent name-that-foodstuff promotion, it&#8217;s this: Aussie are very touchy about their Vegemite.
It all began in July when jars of caramel-brown Vegemite mixed with cream cheese began appearing on supermarket shelves with brightly colored labels inviting consumers to “Name Me.” After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BITE-SIZED CHUNKS OF NEWSPEAK</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/31/bite-sized-chunks-of-newspeak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/31/bite-sized-chunks-of-newspeak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a testament to Caprice Crane&#8217;s writing chops that I cannot get this Halloween-appropriate tweet of her&#8217;s out of my mind:
Kids&#8217; first experience with Orwellian language comes when they see those tiny candy bars entitled: &#8220;Fun Size.&#8221;
No better way to instill Newspeak into the head than by going through the stomach (by way of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KEEPING IT SIMPLE, OR SIMPLISTIC?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/28/keeping-it-simple-or-simplistic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/28/keeping-it-simple-or-simplistic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a spectre haunting your supermarket aisle &#8212; the spectre of &#8220;simple&#8221;:
The new marketing code word being used to boast about fewer ingredients: simple. From 2005 to 2008, there&#8217;s been a 64.7% increase in new products using the words &#8220;simple&#8221; or &#8220;simply&#8221; in the product or brand name, reports researcher Datamonitor.
In 2010, products that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G&#8217;DAY, MATÉ</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/28/gday-mate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/28/gday-mate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I picked up a new flavor of tea: A maté-citrus black tea blend. It&#8217;s labeled as &#8220;energizing&#8221;, presumably moreso than regular caffeine-chocked black tea.
I have to say I haven&#8217;t felt the energizing burst, despite drinking at least one cup of this brew every day for nearly a week. It certainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TED AND AMY&#8217;S SPOOKY SUPPER CLUB MENU</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/22/ted-and-amys-spooky-supper-club-menu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/22/ted-and-amys-spooky-supper-club-menu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t attend this Thursday&#8217;s Halloween-eve Ted &#038; Amy Supper Club gathering, so I&#8217;m recording the holiday-themed menu as a way to experience it vicariously:
Zombie Brains
(pan-fried calf brains served with lemon aioli)
Headless Horseman Soup
(pumpkin soup topped with cloves and honey)
Skeleton Bones
(roasted bone marrow with parsley salad)
Creature from the Black Lagoon
(grilled calamari over squid ink linguine)
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUSHI RICE BOWL=ROLL YOUR OWN?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/15/sushi-rice-bowlroll-your-own/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/15/sushi-rice-bowlroll-your-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I hit upon a new (for me) lunch option: A sushi rice bowl. Basically an unconstructed sushi roll, with the sashimi artfully layered atop a pile of white grains. Tasty.
As I was munching, I wondered if I could, indeed, take the contents of that bowl and actually roll my own sushi. The rice was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW TO TELL IF YOUR COCKTAIL IS GHETTO-FABULOUS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/15/how-to-tell-if-your-cocktail-is-ghetto-fabulous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/15/how-to-tell-if-your-cocktail-is-ghetto-fabulous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I was told how to make a &#8220;ghetto sangria&#8221;, and it really couldn&#8217;t be any easier:
- 1/2 red wine
- 1/2 Diet Coke
&#8230;Nor much more disgusting.
Obviously, the common theme for such ghetto-ized cocktails is sugar &#8212; lots and lots of liquid sugar, in soda and/or juice form. And since you&#8217;re killing the alcoholic spirit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE LAZING-IN-THE-NOW PAYOFF</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/07/the-lazing-in-the-now-payoff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/07/the-lazing-in-the-now-payoff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fortune-cookie fortune, cracked open just minutes ago:
Hard work pays off in the future,
laziness pays off now.
I&#8217;m sure the intent of this little chestnut of wisdom is to encourage sensible preparation for the future. However, as I check my timepiece, I see that it&#8217;s precisely&#8230; now o&#8217;clock. So clearly, I know what to do &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEMPORALLY-DISPLACED CAFE CULTURE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/06/temporally-displaced-cafe-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/06/temporally-displaced-cafe-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, in a little town in Japan&#8217;s Chiba Prefecture, ordering an orange juice at a certain outdoor cafe would have gotten you, instead, an &#8220;Appletizer&#8221; and some candy:
At this cafe, you get what the person before you ordered. The next person gets what you ordered.
For the record, here are the rules of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURING FIVE DOLLAR FOOT-FLAVORED-LONGS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/04/featuring-five-dollar-foot-flavored-longs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/04/featuring-five-dollar-foot-flavored-longs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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As much as I deplore zombie culture, I deplore those non-stop Subway commercials even more. I&#8217;m glad someone else picked up on the built-in wordplay in the sandwich shop&#8217;s former &#8220;Subway &#8212; Eat Fresh!&#8221; tagline, which I bastardized to &#8220;Subway &#8212; Eat FLESH!&#8221; long ago, out of disgust. Re-dubbing the brand as &#8220;Zombway&#8221; is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CHEESINESS OF FONT NAMES, APPLIED</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/15/the-cheesiness-of-font-names-applied/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/15/the-cheesiness-of-font-names-applied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If that ocean of font names seem overly ornate, you might consider a food-based mnemonic to keep them straight. Or you just might want to see if you can distinguish between a typeface and a fancy hunk of milk curd, with Cheese or Font?.
In other words, is Holland&#8217;s own Gouda truly bolder than Goudy Bold? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CULLING M&amp;M&#8217;S LIKE A ROCKSTAR</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/15/culling-mms-like-a-rockstar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/15/culling-mms-like-a-rockstar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
We&#8217;ve all heard the rumors about the ridiculous contractual demands made by pop bands when they&#8217;re on tour. Among the screwiest is Van Halen&#8217;s early-1980s insistence upon being served M&#038;M&#8217;S with all brown-colored pieces removed &#8212; which turns out to be absolutely true.
I take a similar approach while enjoying my M&#038;M&#8217;S, although with a reversed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC HEALTH-VERTISING: BLUBBER IN A BOTTLE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/02/nyc-health-vertising-blubber-in-a-bottle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/02/nyc-health-vertising-blubber-in-a-bottle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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Building off those body-decay anti-smoking ads from a few years back, New York City is applying the gross-out warning to sugar-packed soft drinks, in the form of a too-detailed visual representation of human fat.
The ads — which cost about $277,000 to develop over three fiscal years, including money for creative work and focus groups — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE FLAVOR-PAIN OF DA&#8217; BOMB</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/30/the-flavor-pain-of-da-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/30/the-flavor-pain-of-da-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first read this product description for &#8220;Da&#8217; Bomb&#8221; in Mo Hotta Mo Betta&#8217;s novelty hot-sauce catalogue some 15 years ago:
When a sauce gets this hot, flavor is not really an issue. Pain is the issue.
Da&#8217; Bomb is the hottest we&#8217;ve got, so if it&#8217;s scathing heat you&#8217;re after, you&#8217;ve found your dream sauce. Ka [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE UNTOLD &#8220;MAD MEN&#8221; PRODUCT-PLACEMENT FACTOR</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/17/the-untold-mad-men-product-placement-factor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/17/the-untold-mad-men-product-placement-factor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I wasn&#8217;t the only one who suspected some unreported product-placement going on with &#8220;Mad Men&#8221;: AdWeek poked around for evidence.
It found some, specifically regarding Season 3&#8217;s unique inclusion of Stolichnaya vodka:
Andrey Skurikhin, a partner at SPI Group, which owns the Stoli brand, said that he didn&#8217;t pay for placement. Skurikhin said ["Mad Men" network home] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE UNTOLD &#8220;MAD MEN&#8221; BOOZE FACTOR</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/12/the-untold-mad-men-booze-factor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/12/the-untold-mad-men-booze-factor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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If you&#8217;re a fan of &#8220;Mad Men&#8221;, then you&#8217;re probably a fan of the show&#8217;s dedication to historical accuracy in libations:
Liquor is not only an integral part of many plotlines (last season, it played a pivotal role in a car crash, a divorce, a rape and two career implosions), but often a telling sign of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LONG-TERM LEFTOVER RICE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/02/long-term-leftover-rice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/02/long-term-leftover-rice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I lamented that I&#8217;d overloaded myself by cooking too much rice for dinner. Somehow, I figured that four cups wouldn&#8217;t be too much to eat in a couple of days. I plead ignorance based on kitchen math, in that the 1:1.5 ratio of rice-to-water seemed easier to achieve when multiplied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE SHADOWY SMILE OF VICTORY BEER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/21/the-shadowy-smile-of-victory-beer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/21/the-shadowy-smile-of-victory-beer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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Like I said when I first encountered Victory Brewing Company&#8217;s appealing logo-works, I don&#8217;t foresee sampling their beverages anytime soon.
But a trick of the light and a half-empty beer glass make for a noteworthy &#8220;happy hour&#8221; photo moment. Even if the result is reminiscent of an evil clown face.
Almost makes me want to forgo my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MYSTERY OF THE GYRO MYSTERY MEAT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/15/mystery-of-the-gyro-mystery-meat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/15/mystery-of-the-gyro-mystery-meat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a Greek-American, I&#8217;m all too familiar with the gyro sandwich. (And yes, it is properly pronounced YEE-ro, not JIGH-ro; that &#8220;g&#8221; is confusing when it stands in for the Greek gamma, so deal with it.)
But I can&#8217;t say I was overly familiar with just what gyro meat was made of:
The process starts with boxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIRACLE WHIP-ASS: THE NEXT GENERATION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/04/miracle-whip-ass-the-next-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/04/miracle-whip-ass-the-next-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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If there&#8217;s a more ludicrous re-branding effort out right now than Miracle Whip&#8217;s current &#8220;We Will Not Tone It Down&#8221; campaign, I&#8217;d like to see it.
I mean, even in the symbol-heavy realm of food advertising, the juxtaposition of party-hearty 20-somethings with a jar of white glop is hard to take even remotely credibly:

Pulsating guitar rhythm, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAKING BEER SERIOUSLY, CULINARILY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/24/taking-beer-seriously-culinarily/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/24/taking-beer-seriously-culinarily/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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While Mr. Doubleshot Beer Helmet, above, would never be tolerated inside a proud craft-brewery type of bar or restaurant, the disconnect in matching quality suds with fine foods indicates that those establishments essentially equate beer drinkers with such lowbrow fare:
Great beer abounds today in New York, and the choices keep getting better. Nowadays, almost every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MINUTE MAID&#8217;S BRAIN-BOOSTING FRAT HUMOR</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/21/minute-maids-brain-boosting-frat-humor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/21/minute-maids-brain-boosting-frat-humor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This commercial for Minute Maid&#8217;s Enhanced Juice Drinks has been on the air for at least a month and a half, but it&#8217;s new to me:

And here&#8217;s the funny-fun transcription:
Woman: Excuse me? I think you&#8217;re the father of one of my kids.
Man: Nnn&#8230; Oh&#8230; Cancun? Spring Break &#8216;99?
Woman: What??
Man: No?!
Woman: No.
Announcer: OOPS! SOMEONE FORGOT TO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOS EQUIS MOST INTERESTING MAN, TAKE DOS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/06/dos-equis-most-interesting-man-take-dos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/06/dos-equis-most-interesting-man-take-dos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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What&#8217;s the most interesting thing about Dos Equis beer&#8217;s &#8220;Most Interesting Man in the World&#8221;, which has parked itself in the pop-cultural garage of TV advertising pitchmen?
To me, it&#8217;s that the current run of this campaign is, in fact, the second swipe at promoting this character and theme. The actor behind the beard, Jonathan Goldsmith, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DROWNING MY TEABAG</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/03/drowning-my-teabag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/03/drowning-my-teabag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gotten some flack over the way I prefer my daily cup(s) of tea: Namely, with the teabag permanently dunked into the cup of hot water, never to emerge until I&#8217;ve drained said cup dry.
That comes off as an overly bitter-strong brew to some. But that&#8217;s how I like it. It gives me a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RED BULL: COCAINE IN A CAN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/02/red-bull-cocaine-in-a-can/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/02/red-bull-cocaine-in-a-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess Red Bull figures that, if cocaine was good enough for the original blend of Coca-Cola, then a pinch of the white powder is good enough its line of energy drinks:
Officials at the [Hong Kong] Centre for Food Safety said a laboratory analysis found tiny amounts of the illegal drug in samples of &#8220;Red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CANDY-COATED WINDOWFRONT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/31/candy-coated-windowfront/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/31/candy-coated-windowfront/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 23:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
How much is that candy in the window? Probably dollar-for-dollar equal with the massive dental bill you&#8217;d accrue from putting so much sugary-sweetness into your mouth.
This is the storefront scene at Economy Candy, a 72-year-old small-shop institution in SoHo. I couldn&#8217;t resist cameraphoning this window-ful of color while walking along Rivington this weekend (actually on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMELL-O-FLAVOR</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/29/smell-o-flavor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/29/smell-o-flavor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It didn&#8217;t work in smelling-up movie theaters, but there&#8217;s certainly a better synergy for using advanced aroma infusion to imbue foodstuff with calorie- and byproduct-free flavoring:
The latest trend in food packaging seems straight out of science fiction: Jars and boxes lined with &#8220;smell technology&#8221; emit molecules that push against their contents, infusing the items with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A BOWLFUL OF HUGS AND KISSES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/17/a-bowlful-of-hugs-and-kisses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/17/a-bowlful-of-hugs-and-kisses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 18:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Hershey&#8217;s Kisses have been around for forever. Their white-cream spinoff candy brethren, Hershey&#8217;s Hugs, have been around since 1993.
Somehow, it&#8217;s taken me this long to catch on to the complementary branding between these two chocolates: Hugs-n-Kisses, so to speak.
I didn&#8217;t realize it until today, when I dipped my hand into a bowl that&#8217;s filled with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE INTERNET&#8217;S LOST SOCRATIC STEAK</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/13/the-internets-lost-socratic-steak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/13/the-internets-lost-socratic-steak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 15:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I actually cooked last night: A steak dinner. And while it&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve ever grilled a slab of beef, it&#8217;s been a good while. Plus, the marinading/tenderizing took most of the day, and even though I didn&#8217;t have to do anything but stick it in the fridge for several hours prior to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE FAILURE OF FOOD PORTRAITURE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/04/the-failure-of-food-portraiture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/04/the-failure-of-food-portraiture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite favoring its distinct absence in Roberto Bolaño&#8217;s &#8220;2666&#8243;, it&#8217;s clear that Geoff Nicholson, the blogger of Psycho-Gourmet, actually gets off on the culinary detailing of food in novels.
It’s all very well for Bob Cratchit and his family to sit down to a Christmas goose whose “tenderness and flavor, size and cheapness” were “the themes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NO FEAR BLOODSHOT PAYOFF: T-SHIRT AND 12-PACK</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/02/no-fear-bloodshot-payoff-t-shirt-and-12-pack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/02/no-fear-bloodshot-payoff-t-shirt-and-12-pack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 17:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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So I finally got my swag from running that No Fear &#8220;Earn Some Cred&#8221; contest: A 12-pack of double-shot cans of No Fear Energy Bloodshot and a black No Fear t-shirt.
I have to say, I was anticipating just giving away both prizes. I&#8217;m not much for chugging energy drinks, and No Fear&#8217;s branding is really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE UGLY AND BEAUTIFUL OF RED STRIPE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/25/the-ugly-and-beautiful-of-red-stripe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/25/the-ugly-and-beautiful-of-red-stripe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently reminded of this classic commercial for Jamaica&#8217;s own Red Stripe beer:

Yeah, I know it&#8217;s a vaguely pandering portrayal of Caribbean islanders. Besides, it&#8217;s not like Red Stripe is truly a native Jamaican brew anymore &#8212; it&#8217;s wholly-owned by beverage giant Diageo.
But it still makes me smile with its quirkiness. The whole &#8220;Hooray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TWEETING RECIPES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/24/tweeting-recipes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/24/tweeting-recipes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I find it a challenge to convey what I ate for lunch in under 140 characters. So I&#8217;m leagues behind Maureen Evans in Twittering proficiency, because she, under her @cookbook handle, has gone well beyond the usual update minutiae to deliver complete prep-and-cook food dish recipes in the microblogging format.
Although &#8220;complete&#8221; still leaves room for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNNECESSARILY BAGGING THE TEA PARTY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/15/unnecessarily-bagging-the-tea-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/15/unnecessarily-bagging-the-tea-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the one hand, it was a good use of historical inspiration for the organizers of today&#8217;s Tax Day Tea Party protests to hearken back to the original Boston Harbor event.
On the other hand, they really should have taken into account today&#8217;s slangy parlance for the term &#8220;teabagging&#8221;, and anticipated the easy punchlines to follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHACKED BY WHITE TEA</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/09/whacked-by-white-tea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/09/whacked-by-white-tea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to self: Don&#8217;t attempt to start the day with Lipton&#8217;s fancy-schmancy White Tea with Blueberry &#038; Pomegranate again.
I thought it&#8217;d be a good idea to switch-up the morning routine today with a cup of this stuff, which I otherwise drink in the afternoons, and even then rarely. I knew there&#8217;d be less of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WON THAT: NO FEAR &#8220;EARN SOME CRED&#8221; GIVEAWAY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/06/won-that-no-fear-earn-some-cred-giveaway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/06/won-that-no-fear-earn-some-cred-giveaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
If you still want to get in the running to win the big No Fear &#8220;Earn Some Cred&#8221; Prize Pack &#8212; too late, sucker! I picked the winner earlier today, as scheduled, and commenter Chris W hit the $100-worth jackpot.
Both Chris and I should be receiving our swag (I&#8217;m getting only a 12-pack of No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEA AS CAFFEINE 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/02/tea-as-caffeine-20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/02/tea-as-caffeine-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;ve had their Red Bull and their Starbucks double-whipped-dripped-venti-coffee-whatevers. Now the Silicon Valley wunderkinds have moved on to tea as the stimulating beverage of choice:
Tea is the new coffee — the tipple of choice for the Twitteratti. The culture that brought us pizza as a food group and $20,000 coffeemakers has now discovered tea. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHIPPED, NOT CREAMY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/29/whipped-not-creamy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/29/whipped-not-creamy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The other day, I bought a jar of peanut butter (not the one pictured above, which is intended as merely a generic gif).
I wasn&#8217;t paying sufficient attention, and wound up picking up not the regular creamy variety, but the whipped creamy style instead.
Whipped peanut butter? This is a pure rip-off, isn&#8217;t it? Same sized jar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HALVAH AND STRAWBERRIES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/28/halvah-and-strawberries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/28/halvah-and-strawberries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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I had some fresh strawberries, and I had some fresh halvah (original sesame flavor). Had they not been sitting in close proximity to one another in the kitchen, I never would have thought to combine them for snacking purposes.
But they were, so I did. They make a surprisingly good combination. One worth remembering for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WIN THIS: NO FEAR &#8220;EARN SOME CRED&#8221; GIVEAWAY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/25/win-this-no-fear-earn-some-cred-giveaway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/25/win-this-no-fear-earn-some-cred-giveaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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When Tara hit me up about running a post to promote No Fear Energy Drink&#8217;s new Earn Some Cred promotion, I first thought: I&#8217;m too old, and not skater-shreddin&#8217; enough, to credibly (pun intended!) pimp this skull-festooned supercaffeinated pimp juice.
But hey, it&#8217;s the Web &#8212; if nobody knows whether or not you&#8217;re a dog online, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DE-COUPLING THE FDA</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/22/de-coupling-the-fda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/22/de-coupling-the-fda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reasoning that keeping an eye on the safety of both food and pharmaceuticals is too big a task for one agency, healthcare industry officials are pushing to split the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration into two single-purpose entities.
The organizational behavior of the FDA suggest that this would be a welcomed change:
While FDA&#8217;s food and [...]]]></description>
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