Welcome to Food Week November 24. Leftover stories this week. (They are new but they are about leftovers.) Several things on food borne illness, tis the season, and on QSR, which is not surprising as we are all tired of cooking. And much more. Enjoy!

MACRO

• Bankers predicting slow but positive growth for 2024

• Consumers may be a little more frugal this holiday season

• Junk fees aren’t just in restaurants. The Administration is trying to regulate them.

RETAIL AND CONSUMER

• Ironic or not, Tofurkey has become a Thanksgiving tradition for many.

• You now have a refrigerator full of leftovers. I will now guilt you into eating them by reminding you that 40% of food goes to waste.

• Turkey flocks hit with Avian Influenza but thankfully(!) too late to affect the holiday.

• The latest anti-woke panic is over Fruit Loops.

• The problems with Walmart’s ‘sustainable’ claims.

RESTAURANTS AND FOODSERVICE

• The chicken sandwich saved Popeyes. Now they are moving into wings.

• Half of consumers depend at one level or another on restaurants for Thanksgiving.

• Subway acquisition under antitrust scrutiny. Roark investment firm also owns Jimmy John’s and Schlotzsky’s.

• The White Castle stuffing recipe. Can recommend.

• Chick-fil-A gets into drone delivery.

FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN

• 20 farming families use more water in the Colorado basin than entire states.

• Will we be eating Jellyfish in the future?

• A decade long lawsuit decided; egg producers found guilty of price fixing.

• Controlled Environment Agricultural project in Kentucky pretty much a disaster for everyone involved

• Kids sickened by lead in fruit pouches. Widespread salmonella found in cantaloupe, seemingly from a strain found in Mexico.

• The two hour rule for putting away your leftovers, explained. Also debunking the ‘stomach flu.‘

FOOD WEEK NOVENBER 24 LAGNIAPPE

• Michter’s may be the best bourbon in the world and costs about $50.

• Why does red wine cause headaches? I would drink more wine (and less other things) if so and research is promising. But maybe the problem is the wine you are drinking is too expensive.

• Leftover pies cooked into a cake.

• Escoffier tried to write a cookbook about American Thanksgiving. It didn’t go well. Try instead: A congee recipe using T-Day leftovers.

• Restoring native American peaches.

• Raccoons were a Thanksgiving meal until Calvin Coolidge came along. Thank God. About the only thing he got right.