{"id":2402,"date":"2004-01-07T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2021-06-02T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:10:06","slug":"today-in-food-2004-01-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/07\/today-in-food-2004-01-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Food <small>(2004\/01\/07)<\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/foodbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Two stories today, seeing as I was remiss on Sunday for not pointing out that Detroit is now listed as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/01\/02\/fattest.city.ap\/\">fattest city in the country<\/a>. I&#8217;ve made note of this list before, and in the last couple years Detroit has been listed as number three. At last we&#8217;ve made it to number one! Congratulations all around. I hope I&#8217;m not being immodest in suggesting this site might have played some part in this victory, though I have to warn that my diet might threaten the hope of a repeat. (By the way, Big Fat Blog has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfatblog.com\/archives\/000366.php\">archived article<\/a> on why the criteria behind the yearly <i>Men&#8217;s Fitness<\/i> list is flawed.)<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Also, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/07\/business\/07food.html\" title=\"Link to article.  Registration required.\"><i>New York Times<\/i><\/a>, McDonald&#8217;s &#8220;began displaying posters and brochures yesterday that show how the company&#8217;s products can fit into low-carbohydrate, low-fat and low-calorie meal plans.<br>&#8220;Consumers may delete buns, condiments and, in some cases, lettuce and tomatoes, but the cost of each menu item will not change, a McDonald&#8217;s spokeswoman said.&#8221;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; No word on whether customers can exchange their burgers for food.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Two stories today, seeing as I was remiss on Sunday for not pointing out that Detroit is now listed as the fattest city in the country. I&#8217;ve made note of this list before, and in the last couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/07\/today-in-food-2004-01-07\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}