July 2011
129 posts
China to Release Pork Reserves as Prices Soar -... →
BEIJING—Aiming to blunt a sharp rise in pork prices, China’s Ministry of Commerce said Friday that it will release some pork reserves onto the market.
It also plans to boost stocks from current levels around 200,000 metric tons at a gradual pace, likely so that releases of pork from its reserves will have a greater impact on price levels in future.
“The Macarena is 16 years old today.”
“When someone says, “Don’t call my bluff,” isn’t that...”
The Straight Dope: Is Walt Disney's frozen body... →
Dear Cecil:
During a recent chat about freezing the body after death — cryogenics, I believe it’s called — somebody said Walt Disney’s body was frozen until they develop a cure for lung cancer. Disney supposedly is still technically alive, though terminally ill. I said freezing somebody alive is probably illegal, and if they waited for Uncle Walt to actually die, it would take too...
Letters of Note: I hear you like Tomato Soup →
As product marketing manager for Campbell’s, William MacFarland must have been overjoyed with the incredible public reaction to Andy Warhol’s first exhibition as a fine artist in 1962, as present at the gallery was his now world-famous Campbell’s Soup Cans piece: 32 silkscreened portraits, each representing a different variety of the company’s soup product, all arranged...
