• Backyard chickens may be all the rage, but careful letting the kids get too close. A growing multistate outbreak of Salmonella, with many victims under the age of five, has been linked to backyard chicks purchased as pets or produce eggs. [Food Safety News via SFoodie]
• The Chron offers up some obvious and common-sensical tips for how not to get food poisoning from your own picnic, e.g. use a separate cutting board for raw meat. [Chron]
• Fans of bicycle-friendly 16th Street beer hall Gestalt Haus might be interested to learn there’s another one in Fairfax, should they care to bike there. [Bunrab]
• 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]
• There is a bright-yellow banana-shaped car driving around Michigan. Reportedly, passersby find it very a-peeling. [Drive On/USAT]
• 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]
