Newsstand grave yard

March 19, 2009 @ 2:51 pm

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Photo: AP Photo/Noah Berger

Wow, good thing I held out on posting about this photo because BB just confirmed my suspicions about the caption that this photo came with when it was published over at The Big Picture.

When I first saw this photo, it jumped out at me because it was visually appealing but puzzling as well. The post it was included in was about the recession but something didn’t sit right with me when I saw this image in the set. My head was thinking “Nice photo, but this probably has nothing to do with the recession in its own context.”

Turns out, I was sort of right. These newspaper stands are collected here because San Francsico banned them a few years ago and are now just getting around to enforcing the law.

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Australia may ban Vegemite to curb obesity

February 3, 2009 @ 1:50 am

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Photo: Fresh Vegemite by AZAdam

The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) is considering a ban of Vegemite, a salty yeast-extract product that has been a staple of Australian culture since 1922. The Australian government has set up a preemptive task force to look into how the government can curb a rising obesity epidemic that rivals that of America. You see, Vegemite’s ingredients aren’t the most wholesome of all the products on grocery shelves.

The results of the task force aren’t due until June, but many Australians are apparently already voicing their opinions about a possible ban of the product. I don’t consider myself an Australian, but having had my fair share of Vegemite in the past year, I can say it’s definitely something that you have to grow up eating. Because God knows that brown stuff tastes like something else that’s normally brown.

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