Not really. It's just that yesterday, Fat City mentioned what every coffee connoisseur on a budget already knows: Eight O'Clock Coffee is the best in the six-dollars-and-under range.
Today Consumer Reports decided to confirm that, and throw in a dis or two at Starbucks as well.
Consumer Reports tested 19 popular store-brand ground coffees, including the usual suspects like Folgers and Maxwell House but also premiums such as Starbucks and Peet's Coffee.
In a blow to snobby coffee drinkers
Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports and Consumerist, has sent a long letter to Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius regarding Kansas House Bill 2121. Twenty-nine groups involved in agricultural and food production added their signatures to a copy and sent it as well. Flickr: LauraThe letters have to do with milk labeling. HB 2121 would require producers who say their cows were not treated with rBGT, rBST or other hormones to add this disclaimer: "The Food and Drug Administration has
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Stop! Don't eat that chocolate chip cookie! Spit it out!
Spitting out the cookie, after tasting it, is the secret to being a "sensory panelist" at Consumer Reports magazine, which -- just over an hour ago -- officially released the findings of its report on packaged chocolate chip cookies.
The "sensory panelists," I learned from Consumer Reports' Erin Godeux, don't actually eat any of the cookies they test -- in this case, samples from 13 national brands -- because the object of the testing
Just last week, Tim and Nina Zagat wrote an editorial saying that the clear majority of all complaints they receive -- some 70 percent -- are about the service. They receive the complaints from thousands of diners who rate meals for their guides.But yesterday, Consumer Reports issued its own figures based on reports from more than 150,000 dining experiences. According to the magazine's customer base, the biggest problem was noise, which made up 26 percent of all complaints filed. While service w
In an effort to improve the nutritional value of french fries and other fast-food items, several major cities have instituted bans on artificial trans fats in restaurants. New York City led the way in 2006, passing a ban on all artificial trans fats in food served in restaurants as health officials cited the connection between trans fats and heart disease. The ban was instituted in stages to allow time for compliance and has been in effect since November of 2008. Today, 13 jurisdictions, incl
