Could man-made burgers muscle into the market?

The biggest talking point in food this week has undoubtedly been the first man made burger branded by many as the ‘Google’ burger.

If you’re late in getting in on the story, I am of course talking about the world’s very first burger made solely from stem cells in a laboratory.

But the story which has split the views of many professionals of how the burger got to the plate is a somewhat intriguing one.

It all began around three months ago with cows raised on an organic farm.

Have ice cream vans vanished in the sun?

No summer would be complete without the chime of an ice cream van.

The children excitedly queuing up for 99 Flake or a screwball to cool off in the summer sun.

But where have they all gone I hear you ask?

We were amazed to read that the number of ice cream vans on Britains’s roads has dropped from 25,000 in the 1970s to just 5,000 today.

Sing when you’re winning or should that be eating?

“Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife” – Aldous Huxley

No birthday is complete without a tasty piece of cake.

But did you know that the serenade of out of tune happy birthdays you get each year can actually make that jam sponge taste even better!

Could new plans spell the end to the packed lunch?

“I wouldn’t say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren’t relevant to modern life, it’s just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.” -  Jamie Oliver

The days of the infamous Turkey Twizzler are a thing of the past thanks to Jamie Oliver’s campaign on school dinners back in 2005.

But how much has changed in the past eight years?

Well just last week plans were put forward to ban packed lunches and pupils barred from leaving school during breaks to buy junk food under a government plan to increase the take-up of school meals.

The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread

‘The best thing since sliced bread’ is a phrase that many will be familiar with.

But where does it actually come from?

Well this week marks the 85^th anniversary since the invention by Otto Frederick Rohwedder which put an end to shoddily hacked up pieces of bread and hours of sweat and tears.