• Horse semen is all the rage at a New Zealand restaurant called Green Man Pub. It’s “custard”-like! [Gawker]
• Three dining contracts for HMS Host at LAX have become official, bringing The Counter, Yogurtland, Loteria Grill, Seven Grand, BLD Restaurant, The Marmalade Cafe, and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to the airport. [Daily Breeze]
• Eater LA was knocked offline yesterday due to an FBI raid on DigitalOne, which houses the servers that run Curbed and its sister sites. The site is still not back as of this morning. [NYT]
• 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]
• Chain restaurants are trying to whittle down the calorie counts on their menus now that they’re required to post them. [LAT]
• 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]
