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Celebrate Baskin-Robbins’ birthday with cheap scoops — MAP

Ice cream shop Baskin-Robbins turns 70 on August 31, and participating stores will be dishing out cheap ice cream scoops to get you in on the action. To celebrate, scoops will be $1.31 each — a reference to their 31 legacy flavors.

 
Blue Bell Ice Cream coming back to select US stores Aug. 31

Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries will put its products back on store shelves for sale from Aug. 31 as it tries to restart operations after a Listeria outbreak led to a recall of its products and a hit to its reputation, it said on Monday.

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New FDA rules will ban trans fat in foods

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday made good on its proposal to effectively ban artificial trans fats from a wide range of foods, from microwave popcorn to frozen pizza, saying they raise the risk of heart disease.

 
Crystal Pepsi is probably coming back

PepsiCo has hinted that it will soon resurrect “Crystal Pepsi,” an ill-fated beverage from the 1990s that some customers have been lobbying the company to bring back.

 
Behold the dausage: sausage with a sweet filling

Walking the fine, greasy line between ewww and mmmm comes another hybrid snack that the world has somehow survived without until now: the dausage.

 
Olive Garden gives up, is making breadstick sandwiches

Olive Garden is finally given into unspoken demands for more breadsticks, but they’re delivering that in the shape of a sandwich with chicken or meatballs in the middle.

 
Chipotle goes GMO-free; first for fast-food

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc on Monday said the 46 ingredients used in its roughly 1,800 restaurants were now free of genetically modified organisms, becoming the first major U.S. restaurant chain to make that switch.