[Global Food News is a weekly selection of world food news deemed important, absurd, strange, or otherwise hilarious at Food Trotter!]
Woman Fights Over Chicken Nuggets
This video has gone viral, and you haven’t seen it yet, here it is! Apparently this can happen at the drive-thru of your local McDonald’s, and as this video shows, the customer wasn’t pleased when she didn’t receive the chicken nuggets she ordered. We all love those goddamn nuggets, that fake white meat coated in a crispy outer layer and dunked into a pool of sauce. I’m proud to say I was brought up on them. Sometimes they’re so good, you have to throw a beer bottle at the cashier just to get a piece! No worry, this offender was put behind bars for Mcnugget mistreatment.
A Takoyaki Maker
Heres another great gadget to add to your kitchen appliance collection. This one is again courtesy of Japan and their mean Takoyaki balls that we recently featured in our article “Tako-To-The-Yaki! A Party In Your Mouth“. Now you can have those fluffy octopus balls made on the streets of Osaka in your very own home. And with the new Japanese Izakaya craze, you too can get into the trend! Thanks to the Takoyaki Factory Ton Ton, this appliance makes it so easy, even I can do it! In fact, the Ton Ton is fitted with a motor that gradually flips the cooking takoyaki one ball at a time! I know what I’ll be asking for Christmas this year…. [Japanese Trend Shop]
The Art of Sharing Food – Sharing is Caring
Another person agrees with me that sharing is caring, even stating that “the best-mannered dinner companion is one who puts others’ needs before his or her own”. Awesome…. You all know how clever I am at when it comes to sneaking my share of food, going so far as writing guidelines on helping you to eat more without showing it. Now my friend, I’ve been acquitted. Felicity Cloake of The Uk Guardian squabbles about those jerks with an inability to share food. We’ve all heard it before, those people who are described as “oddly possessive of their order, throwing around accusations about unfairly large forkfuls being taken, muttering fussily about germs…. or clearly just not feeling comfortable with such intimacy”. I don’t have friends like that, I sure hope you don’t. [guardian.co.uk]
The Beginning of Ramadan
This week marks the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, where over a billion Muslims around the world will begin their dawn-to-dusk fast. Unfortunately a heat wave has brought sweltering temperatures to the Middle East, where countries such as Egypt and Lebanon are being put to the test with the challenge of fasting in the heat. I certainly remember the days in Malaysia during these months, food stalls were particularly inactive during the day. But once dawn hits, the Malays would hit the street in such furor that it seemed like an all-out street buffet. Friends of mine even had to wake up earlier in the morning just to eat at dusk before they ventured to school. I can’t ever imagine doing something like this, but I’m sure impressed with Muslims who can withdraw from eating during the peak hours of the day. [Boston.com]
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