• Taste of Chicago may have ended on Sunday, but all the extra food won’t go to waste; volunteers from the Greater Chicago Food Depository gathered much of the unsold items and distributed them to local pantries around the city. [FOX]
• There is a bright-yellow banana-shaped car driving around Michigan. Reportedly, passerby find it very a-peeling. [Drive On/USAT]
• According to this, eating in restaurants makes you fat and “one meal away from home each week translates to roughly two extra pounds a year.” Uh-oh. [Orlando Sentinel]
• Hunger in North Korea has gotten so bad thanks to crop damage and the country’s “food deficit” that the E.U. has resumed food aid. Meanwhile, Oxfam is declaring that right now is the “biggest food crisis of the 21st century” for Africa. [ABC News AU, KBC News UK]
• A Philippine sugar-producers group is urging restaurants and hotels to boycott Coke, since the company doesn’t use local sugar anymore. They’re probably just jealous of that delicious Mexican Coke. [Sun Star Bacolod]
• Jay-Z is teaming up with “footballer” Ashley Cole to bring his 40/40 club across the pond to London. [Belfast Telegraph UK]
