IJMC - The Breakfast Extravaganza
Yesterday's post comes straight from our ABC affiliate Flip who remains
on the scene to continue to bring us the latest AP wires-worth-reading.
I've left Flip's commentary between the double-lines for everyone to
enjoy and Flip to get his day in the sun... -dave
P.S. Pardon the IJMC tape-delay...Netcom wouldn't let me in for a day..
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Not sure if this is really IJMC material or not- perhaps it could be
bunched with other files of this kind... well, anywho- I thought it
kind of amusing......
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AP-Pop-Tart Fire
Couple blames Pop Tarts for house fire
(West Milford, New Jersey) -- Food or fire hazard? A New Jersey
couple says Pop-Tarts are flammable. And they blame the toaster
pastry for a fire in their West Milford home.
"The North Jersey Herald and News" reports that Robert and
Betty Campbell are suing the pastry's maker, Kellogg Company, for
600-thousand dollars in damage from the fire two years ago.
No one was injured in the blaze, but the front of the house was
gutted.
Law enforcement officials traced the fire's source to the
Campbells' toaster.
The Campbells' attorney says the frosting's thick sugar coating
is highly flammable in a standard toaster oven.
Officials for Michigan-based Kellogg have not responded to the
lawsuit.
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This is pretty good, too.... I'm seeing a trend here- odd things with
breakfast foods...
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AP-Nun Bun
Mother Teresa: `Thou shalt not profit from nun bun'
(Nashville, Tennessee) -- It's a different kind of takeout
request for a Nashville, Tennessee, coffeehouse -- from Mother
Teresa.
It's about a cinnamon bun.
Not just any cinnamon bun. A customer at the Bongo Java looked
at it last fall and noticed that it bore a remarkable resemblance
to the revered, 86-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The coffeehouse shellacked the bun and enshrined it in a counter
display. Then it started selling T-shirts and other items featuring
the "nun bun."
Mother Teresa doesn't allow merchandising with her name or image
-- even for her own Missionaries of Charity. A letter from her
lawyer didn't stop the coffeehouse. So Mother Teresa made the
request in a letter herself.
Owner Bob Bernstein says he'll stop -- at least for now. He says
he didn't want to antagonize anyone. But he says the nun bun makes
people laugh -- and makes them "think about ultimate things."
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The boy is HOT today!!!!
I see a bizarre breakfast items IJMC post forming here.... flaming pop
tarts, the nun bun.... and this.... surreal cereal........
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PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) - That doesn't look like the
"Breakfast of Champions."
A woman took home two boxes of Wheaties that were in a package
mistakenly delivered to her office. Opening one for breakfast the
next morning, her mother found it full of hallucinogenic mushrooms.
"The woman called us and said, `you'd better come over here,"'
said Lt. Mike Blackhurst.
The narcotics team confiscated the 720 grams of mushrooms last
week, estimating the drugs' value at $8,000. The police plan to
return the boxes to the sender in hopes of making an arrest.
"We've kept everything intact, so they are going to get it sent
back by a courier and then see if they can't do a controlled
delivery with a search warrant," Blackhurst said.
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