• With a 98.3 percent accuracy rate, Illinois is ranked fourth in the nation for food stamp efficiency. [Trib]
• Horse semen is all the rage at a New Zealand restaurant called Green Man Pub. It’s “custard”-like! [Gawker]
• Jack in the Box has gotten rid of toys from kids’ meals. Now if only they could do away with still-persistent E. coli fears about their meat. [Reuters]
• The effectiveness of weight-loss surgery has led scientists to study chemical and hormonal processes in the gut, which might prove a boon to weight-loss science. [Fox News]
• Pisco is the latest South American spirit to supposedly be having a moment. [NYT]
• There’s a new gluten-free label to insure celiac sufferers are getting the real (or not real) thing. [NYDN]