Hacker News with Generative AI: Food

U.K. restaurant selling $177 pineapple pizza: the price for 'terrible judgment' (cbc.ca)
People who prefer their pizza peppered with pineapples will have to pay a pretty penny for the pleasure at a pizzeria in Norwich, England.
Food, United Kingdom, Controversy, Pricing
5 points by petethomas 22 hours ago | 2 comments
47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf] (cleanlabelproject.org)
Health, Food, Science, Safety, Consumer Products
73 points by clumsysmurf 4 days ago | 58 comments
Norwich restaurant charges £100 ($122) for a pineapple pizza (theguardian.com)
A pizzeria is asking its customers to put their dough where their mouth is if they want to eat a Hawaiian – charging £100 for a ham and pineapple-topped pizza.
Food, Restaurants, UK, Pricing, Controversy
10 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 4 days ago | 10 comments
Grocery Prices Set to Rise as Soil Becomes 'Unproductive' – Newsweek (newsweek.com)
Experts are warning of a looming increase in grocery prices as agricultural soil becomes increasingly unproductive.
Agriculture, Economics, Food, Climate Change
4 points by janandonly 4 days ago | 0 comments
What foods are taxed in the UK (gov.uk)
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Taxes, UK, Food, VAT
7 points by mayakacz 5 days ago | 1 comments
You'll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill (theatlantic.com)
There’s no such thing as an easy weeknight meal.
Food, Cooking, Lifestyle
11 points by copypasterepeat 10 days ago | 6 comments
Mouthfeel (wikipedia.org)
Mouthfeel refers to the physical sensations in the mouth caused by food or drink, making it distinct from taste.
Food, Science, Sensory Experience
6 points by mooreds 10 days ago | 0 comments
Why is the American diet so deadly? (newyorker.com)
Food scientists are investigating a possible cause of the obesity epidemic which wasn’t named until the twenty-first century: ultra-processed foods.
Food, Health, Diet, Obesity, Food Science
79 points by johnkpaul 11 days ago | 184 comments
Kim Jong-un bans hotdogs for North Koreans, cooking them an act of treason (nzherald.co.nz)
North Korea, Politics, Food, Culture
4 points by DocFeind 12 days ago | 0 comments
Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016) (futureboy.us)
For 46 days, I'm trying to spend less than $2.50 a day on food. This is an account of the food, the costs, the science, and the fun of that experiment.
Budgeting, Food, Science, Experiments
247 points by hwayne 12 days ago | 442 comments
Show HN: Does your food have gluten? (glutenchecker.link)
Quick and reliable gluten content checker for your dietary needs
Health, Food, Tools
4 points by zeroentropylabs 12 days ago | 8 comments
The Rise of the French Fry Cartel (jacobin.com)
Food, Economics, Business, Conspiracy Theories
134 points by ohjeez 12 days ago | 154 comments
Tomatoes Were Considered Sinful – Until the Salem Tomato Trial of 1820 (2019) (thevintagenews.com)
The most controversial thing about a tomato today is whether it’s a vegetable or a fruit. Yet things weren’t always like that. As recently as 200 years ago tomatoes were associated not only with sin, but also an obstacle to salvation.
History, Food, Culture, Law
22 points by austinallegro 14 days ago | 9 comments
The Class Politics of Fine Dining (contexts.org)
Some people still have stress dreams about high school exams. I still have stress dreams about working for David Bouley.
Class, Food, Restaurants, Economics
24 points by speckx 15 days ago | 9 comments
How saffron became an American cash crop (nytimes.com)
It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or simply pleasure.
Agriculture, Food, Economics, United States
89 points by Thevet 15 days ago | 61 comments
Most important recipes of the past 100 years (slate.com)
When we initially reached out to scores of chefs, recipe writers, historians, and food luminaries for nominations for their most important American recipes of the past 100 years—Which written recipes were the most influential, pivotal, or transformative for American home cooking between 1924 and 2024?—we expected strong opinions, but we didn’t anticipate the philosophical quandaries that adjudicating and assembling them would bring up.
Food, History, Recipes
9 points by surprisetalk 15 days ago | 0 comments
Recent encounters with atom-thin salami slicing (reeserichardson.blog)
Food, Technology, Science
8 points by domofutu 17 days ago | 0 comments
Camembert cheese compounds improve memory and learning (psypost.org)
A recent study published in Neuroscience Research sheds light on the potential cognitive benefits of Camembert cheese.
Health, Food, Neuroscience, Memory, Cognition
22 points by geox 21 days ago | 4 comments
Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods (plasticlist.org)
Food, Plastic, Environment, Bay Area, Data
635 points by jeff18 21 days ago | 193 comments
Roasted Christmas Spam from Muhu AI (soatok.blog)
I wrote what I thought would be the final blog post of 2024 last week, and was looking forward to starting 2025 strong with a blog I’d been drafting since July 2023.
Food, AI, Humor
9 points by vegadw 23 days ago | 0 comments
Christmas Punch Requires a Formerly Forbidden Fruit (atlasobscura.com)
In Mexico, ponche Navideño—or Christmas punch—is a holiday classic, served up at parties and posadas, neighborhood-wide re-enactments of Mary and Joseph seeking shelter for the birth of Jesus. “Christmas in particular has so many foods and rituals attached to it. So you would have your ponche and your tamales,” says Lesley Téllez, a food writer and the author of the cookbook Eat Mexico.
Food, Mexico, Holidays, Christmas
47 points by juanplusjuan 23 days ago | 19 comments
Threads of God (atlasobscura.com)
To eat the world's rarest pasta, you must first complete a 20-mile pilgrimage.
Food, Travel, Culture
44 points by thunderbong 25 days ago | 45 comments
Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells (medicalxpress.com)
UAB research has characterized in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed by human intestinal cells, and are thus able to reach the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.
Microplastics, Health, Science, Research, Food
421 points by wglb 26 days ago | 317 comments
The USDA Say It's Time to Replace Meat with Beans (foodandwine.com)
Beans and legumes aren’t go-to foods for many Americans, but a panel of top dietitians is hoping to change that. A new report from an advisory committee to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) suggests tweaking the Dietary Guidelines for Americans to recommend that people have at least 2.5 cups of beans and lentils a week.
Food, Nutrition, Health, Dietary Guidelines
5 points by blindriver 28 days ago | 0 comments
Tea bags release microplastics, entering human intestinal cells (medicalxpress.com)
UAB research has characterized in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed by human intestinal cells, and are thus able to reach the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.
Microplastics, Health, Science, Research, Food
14 points by bikenaga 28 days ago | 5 comments
Pineapple on pizza is delicious – if you disagree, you can't log in to WordPress (techcrunch.com)
There are few matters in life that divide a room more than the prudence of putting pineapple on pizza. But if you’re of the persuasion that tropical fruit has no place on a pie, you’ll have to swallow a bitter pill — if you want to access the WordPress.org developer portal and forum, at least.
Food, Technology, Community
8 points by LorenDB 32 days ago | 1 comments
SpiceNice – An open source spice database (tderflinger.com)
In this article I would like to introduce the SpiceNice database website. It is an open source database of culinary spices. Besides valuable information on spices you can also read about the corresponding plants. A section on free literature about spices completes the website.
Open Source, Databases, Food, Spices
66 points by tderflinger 32 days ago | 24 comments
The Year of McDonald's (thefp.com)
McDonald’s is central to American life, both physically and culturally. The last few months have provided two massive news stories that have emphasized this. At the end of October, there was the viral, and controversial, Trump campaign stop, where he “worked” for 30 minutes at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
McDonald's, American Culture, Politics, Food
71 points by secondary 32 days ago | 105 comments
WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza (gizmodo.com)
Welcome to WordPress! What is your opinion of pineapple on pizza? Answer wisely or you will be unable to login.
WordPress, Online Communities, Food, User Experience
20 points by twapi 32 days ago | 18 comments
To Log into WordPress, You Now Have to Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good (404media.co)
WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg is trolling contributors and users of the WordPress open-source project by requiring them to check a box that says “Pineapple is delicious on pizza.”
WordPress, Open Source, Humor, Technology, Food
89 points by LordAtlas 32 days ago | 127 comments