Huel: the ‘food of the future’ making £14m a year

One in four British adults today is obese, which Julian Hearn, co-founder of powdered food maker Huel, blames on our easy access to unhealthy convenience food.
— Read on www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/03/29/huel-food-future-making14m-year/

Only three years in business. I actually tried it after being deluged by FB ads and it’s actually delivered. Tastes about like I thought it would & you can definitely substitute it for a meal. Perfect with blueberries and also makes great pancakes. The downside is you gotta buy big sacks of it and they’ll try to stick you with a subscription. Low per-feeding cost though and definitely #disruptive dining potential here. Two bucks and two minutes and voila, supper is solved.

Pizza Paving Potholes

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I love pizza and politics, and writing about both runs in the family.  So while looking for South Carolina’s primary election results this morning at thestate.com, I was intrigued to find the following headline:  “Tired of potholes? Domino’s Pizza helps pay for road repair. How to nominate Columbia.”

The State‘s article links to Domino’s Pizza’s Paving for Pizza program (how’s that alliteration?).  Here’s the gist of it:  nominate your town using your zip code, and Domino’s might pitch in some dough (tee hee) to fill its potholes.  They’ve already done it in several cities around the United States, from California to Texas to Delaware.

Every South Carolinian knows that one of our major issues is the poor state of our roads.  Indeed, last year the legislature passed a gas tax hike, the first phase of which kicked in at the beginning of 2018.  That tax will raise…

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