Author Archives: grubgirl

QSR magazine reports that Snapple and Pepsi are debuting new drinks, and advertising that they’re made with old-fashioned sugar, as opposed to high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Because providing something natural (versus processed) should be a big deal? Odd.

Pepsi and Snapple's new drinks

Sweet drinks in the US are usually flavored with HFCS, because it’s cheaper to provide those calories than adding sugar. Whether or not they’re linked to the increasing chubbiness of people that consume fast food is a whole other debate that this blog won’t cover.

I can’t help but love steaks. Regular readers know about recent attempts at perfecting the rib eye in a pan. Well, a blogger named Teahouse was smart enough to take some photographs of the various steaks she’d eaten in restaurants in Argentina. (If you’re a vegetarian, think twice before visiting. If you’re a vegetarian and a wine lover, maybe check out Napa instead.)

Argentine Steak

All that steak consumption in Argentina is still healthier than if I were to eat the same amount here in the United States, since the beef there is grass-fed. No grain-fed troughs or poopy lagoons for those steers to wade in! But regardless of the steak quality, she indeed gets hit with The Itis: