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Pepsi Plays Friendly With Coke Again; Fresh Water Could Be A Culprit in Oyster Deaths

• To promote their zero-calorie drink, Pepsi launched a revamped version of the company’s 1995 “Diner” ad, wherein Pepsi and Coke delivery drivers have a short-lived friendship. [AP]

• The recent death of thousands of Louisiana oysters may have been caused not by the Gulf oil spill, but by the gallons of fresh water that was pumped into estuaries afterward. [WSJ]

• Surprise, surprise, you’re getting hosed on airport food prices. [L.A. Times]

• BlogDowntown will start producing a weekly lifestyle magazine in August. [BlogDowntown]

• Armed federal agents appeared at Venice’s Rawesome food buying club last month to stop it from selling raw milk. [Daily Finance]

• Gyu-Kaku, first opened in L.A. in 2001, is expanding to Chicago. [Chicago Business]

• New York Times food writer Kim Severson will soon take over the paper’s Atlanta bureau. [Twitter via NYO]

• Despite the adulation it inspires, raw milk may actually be put consumers at risk of disease. [Slate]

• Chile’s fishing industry is still reeling from this past fall’s earthquake. [WSJ]

Pepsi Plays Friendly With Coke Again; Fresh Water Could Be A Culprit in Oyster