FYI: "Would You Like Some Weed With That?"
• A man was actually selling marijuana from a drive-thru window at a Maryland McDonald's. That's so...brazen. It wasn't too difficult for the cops to find him. [MSNBC]
• If you live in an area with lots of fast food restaurants, you're more likely to have a stroke; in fact, according to a recent study, for every fast food restaurant in an area, the relative risk went up 1 percent. [Los Angeles Times]
• Even the food industry is warming to the idea of more stringent food regulation. [AP]
• Three inebriated men walked into a Berkeley restaurant and demanded free burritos. When they were denied, they flashed a knife and a belt. The restaurant employees, however, weren't scared — they chased the drunks out and beat one of them with a tire iron and metal pipe. All in a day's work. [Mercury News]
• Use less water to boil your pasta and collectively we could as a nation save 250,000-500,000 barrels of oil each year. [New York Times]
