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In case you didn’t know, we at TheTodayNews.com are a fan of big food. Giant burgers used to just be the domain of bars trying to make a name for themselves, but recently fast food restaurants have joined the fray.

The most recent entry in the fast food giant burger arena is Burger King’s Steakhouse XT burger, sporting a flame-broiled 7oz. patty (that’s almost a half-pound to you and me), which puts McDonalds puny 1/3 pound Black Angus burger to shame!

Television chef Jamie Oliver broke down in tears of frustration while filming his new series “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution USA”, which aims to reform the eating habits of America’s fattest city, Huntington, West Virginia.

The residents of Huntington, over 50% of whom are obese, were blatantly uninterested in the chef’s healthy eating tips, and some residents were outwardly hostile to some of his suggestions.

When local schoolchildren were shown tomatoes hanging on a vine, they were unable to correctly identify the food.

Did they consider “tomater” a correct answer?

TheTodayNews.com is a fan of big food. So we were excited to hear about the latest concession menu addition of Frontier League baseball’s Gateway Grizzlies for the 2010 season.: “The Beast”

The Beast is a 15-patty super-burger consisting of 5 pounds of black angus ground chuck marianated in steak sauce, complimented by bacon, pepper jack cheese, and all the typical burger condiments.

Is anybody up for a road-trip to East St. Louis this summer?

Carbon footprint counters who also own a dog are now in a quandary due to a recent study titled Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living, which finds that dogs have a greater eco-footprint than gas-guzzling SUVs. Specifically, a medium-size dog has a carbon “pawprint” equal to that of about two Toyota Land Cruisers.

Run, Skippy, run!!!

A recent article on delish.com offered up their opinions on “Best Football Stadium Food”, listing a capicola & cheese sandwich from Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field right there at the top.

Although you’d think an über sandwich made-to-order stacked with hot cappy, provolone cheese, fresh-cut French fries, coleslaw, and tomatoes served on fresh Italian bread would be a guaranteed winner, it turns out a The Today News .com staffer ordered one of these sammiches from the same vendor during a recent Pirates/Cubs game at neighboring PNC Park. And he was very disappointed! Actually the quote was, “Amazingly tasteless, except for the gross aftertaste of the greasy fries.”

Surprised? I know! How can anybody make hot cappy taste bad??? But it happened!

A study by Dr Sainudeen Pattazhy, a professor at Sree Narayana College in Punalur, India, found that when a mobile phone was kept near a beehive it resulted in collapse of the colony (a.k.a. Colony Collapse Disorder) in five to 10 days, with the worker bees failing to return home, leaving the hives with just queens, eggs and hive-bound immature bees. A similar study with the same result was also conducted at Landau University, in Germany.

Electromagnetic waves emitted by cell phone towers were strong enough to cripple the “navigational skills” of the worker bees, who play a vital role in sustaining bee colonies, he said.

Are you sad that a free Starbucks coffee promotion only seems to appear once a year? Well now you have the opportunity to get a free Starbucks coffee every day! On the front of some 12 oz. bags of Starbucks coffee is an offer for a free tall brewed coffee when you turn in your empty bag. (I got my bag of House Blend at the local Giant Eagle supermarket, don’t know if the bags in an actual Starbucks have the same offer or not.)

So whether you live in Columbus, Chicago or Seattle, the faster you can guzzle down as many pots of House Blend that a 12 oz. bag can make, that faster you can get yourself ANOTHER free Tall as a chaser! I’m shaking in anticipation…or maybe it’s the caffeine…

We’ve all been there: hungry for a pizza but feel too lazy to cook. It used to be that we would have to scrounge around for a coupon, call for the order, wait up to 90 minutes for delivery, and then tip the guy for handing us an overpriced, cold, sausage and hot-pepper pizza.

Thankfully, those days are behind us! Major pizza chains such as Little Caesar’s now offer $5 Hot-n-Ready pizzas, where all you need to do is walk in the door with a hungry stomach and a five-dollar-bill in hand, and seconds later walk out with a meal. Even local chains, such as Cleveland’s Georgio’s Oven Fresh Pizza, now offer a similar Fresh-n-Ready carryout menu.

Are these Hot-n-Ready pizzas as good as an old-fashioned $12 order-over-the-phone pizza? Of course not. But what you give up in quality and topping choice, you make up for in speed, cost, and convenience.