• Pakistan’s ambassador, Hussain Haqqani, held a “mango party” at the Palmer House over the weekend. There is no hidden meaning here. After “two years of strategic dialogue,” Pakistan hopes to soon begin selling their imports of the delicious fruit. [Trib]
• Police raided La Playa Cantina in Glen Ellyn last week, finding nearly four kilos of cocaine worth approximately $120,000. [Glen Ellyn News]
• Watch Justin Bieber as he “cones” and pulls other pranks on fast-food drive throughs. [Perez Hilton]
• The drought continues in the southwestern U.S., where many cattle ranchers are taking steer to auction early rather than struggle to feed and water them. [USAT]
• Turns out high sodium intake is a concern for many babies, who get salt overload from eating canned and jarred food. [Daily Mail UK]
• Defying its namesake decadent dessert, Cheesecake Factory will roll out a “SkinnyLicious” menu of fifteen entrees under 590 calories and twelve appetizers under 490 calories. [USAT]
• Chewing food up to 40 times might be an effective means of consuming fewer calories. Because you get tired of sitting there chewing? [Daily Mail UK]
• Down in Louisiana, SnoWizard snowballs is being sued by eight other makers of the frozen dessert, which are fed up with SnoWizard’s owner trying to trademark sugar and water. [WSJ]
