"Denver Post" news and stories

I love it when people care. Even if it's about something minor, like whether you can get a slice of lemon with a Starbucks iced tea, it's always refreshing when someone actually gives a damn. I feel like I'm generally too busy (read: lazy) to care about things, and it's good to know that someone out there is doing the caring for me. Plus, caring gets other people caring.

Take, for example, Al Lewis at the Denver Post, who cares desperately about the fact that Starbucks doesn't provide fresh lemons to squeeze in iced tea. I never noticed it before, but now that I think about it, I might really like that option. I always ask for lemon with iced tea in restaurants, but it never occurred to me that Starbucks has been denying me. So while part of me thinks Al Lewis should just invest his time in finding another establishment for purchasing out tea, more of me thinks he keeps fighting the good fight. Your thoughts?

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I believe it was H.L. Mencken who said, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." That quote goes along way toward explaining the popularity of George Duran's idiotic Food Network show Ham on the Street. I know we here at Slashfood have no love for the man's antics, comedic or culinary.

Joanne Ostrow, TV critic for The Denver Post, is clearly a big Duran fan. I'm willing to cut her a break when she writes that the show deserves "a wider, hungrier audience" mainly because she's not a food journalist. However, I lose all faith when I read that she feels that Duran "succeeds in being hip without trying." His show is the antithesis of hip and goes beyond being unentertaining to become simply annoying. Perhaps, this is sour grapes on my part. The first time I watched, I thought, "Dang, I could do this, and much, much better."

There was one bright spot in Ostrow's review of the show though. Duran's producer, Allison Page, says that he speaks so longingly of France, that she fears he may return their one day. A note to Ham fans, it  won't be any time soon, the second season starts in July. Today's show will examine microwave foods. I can't hardly wait.

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There was a time when a vending machine simply dispensed chilled sodas. After that, they carried a full range of candy bars and salty snack products. There were even vending machines that brewed you a cup of coffee and heated your instant cup o' soup. Soon other industries beyond food will be able to stock their wares in these machines, traditionally only food-delivery systems. The Denver Post reports that Safeway supermarkets in Colorado have been testing these machines in stores since late last year. Nestled amongst food products, the Zoom Shops carry such goods as iPods, Playstations and DVD sets. Don't dig out the retractable quarter on a string from your childhood, though. That trick may have gotten you a free Coke, but these new machines only take credit cards. Will there eventually be a middle ground between 65¢ packets of pretzels and iPods - like a blender or a mid-range toaster oven? Only time will tell....

 

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