Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. Enjoy.
Back When Pizza Hut Was an Experience (via Retro Ramblings
13 Salty Facts About Mr. Peanut (via Mental Floss)
Why Is Soft Serve on So Many Restaurant Menus? (via Eater)
Sports Drink Makers Are Waging An $8 Billion Thirst War (via Bloomberg)
Chipotle Customers Wanted Queso Dip, But Some Hate What They Got (via Consumerist)
Definitely some tenuous ingredient definitions in that sports drink article.
I hate the artificial sweeteners and also the ever-present stevia and monkfruit. So whenever I’ve tried modern sports drinks, I’ve never wanted to repeat the experience. So switching from regular calorie-laden sugars lost me as a potential customer.
Nomeatathlete.com has a recipe for making your own sports drink, based on fruit juice, apple cider vinegar, maple syrup, and salt. He claims to have perfected a recipe in particular that tastes like the old grape Gatorade… It’s called switchel and apparently it was an old-timey farmers’ recipe to stay hydrated out in the fields.