With all the nation’s food sections and food mags reinventing the wheel, aka beginning their Thanksgiving coverage, the most interesting food story out there may be New Zealand’s Great Cheese Heist: A young couple were caught stealing blocks of Cheddar off a train and then drove off, tossing cheese out the window as they fled. Actually, that’s about the extent of the story.Cookie Monster demands royalties for use of his signature “Om nom nom nom,” flirts with attractive Web video host. Slate discovers that death row prisoners who ask for filet mignon for their last meal may get hamburger. So not fair.The Washington Post reports on a new study demonstrating that male factory Chinese workers exposed to high levels of BPA suffered erection problems. Previous studies suggesting a correlation between BPA exposure and birth defects, genital abnormalities, etc., haven’t resulted in tighter regulation of the chemical. However, threaten a senator’s man parts and now something may get done.
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