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FDA Uncomfortable With Corn Syrup Rebranding; Chipotle Opens ShopHouse Kitchen in D.C.

• The FDA’s deputy commissioner for foods feels uncomfortable with high fructose corn syrup’s attempts to change its image and re-brand itself under a new name. [CBS]

• Chipotle’s South Asian spinoff, ShopHouse Kitchen, debuts today in D.C. P.F. Chang’s, it’s on. [NRN]

• With poor eating habits, little exercise, and smoking, China is basically turning into America circa 1965, and they have the same chronic diseases to show for it. [WP]

• If you love avocados as much as we do, you’ll want to find out five more ways you can get it in L.A. We’ll add Lee’s avocado smoothies while we’re at it. [HuffPo]

• A horse that was tied to a tree and left starving in Ontario, CA., has been rescued by the humane society. [Mercury News]

• We’ve become used to seeing The Flying Pig Cafe take a beating, but here the truck takes one from a CSUN student who employs the insulting term “roach coach.” [SunDial]

• It’s time to get pie-eyed! This Sunday, Evan Kleiman will host her Good Food Pie Contest at LACMA. Admission is free. [LAT]

• Sugar refiners are suing corn-syrup processors, and needless to say, relations between the two are anything but sweet. [ABC News]

• Underground Secret Dining in Jakarta trumps anything the kids are doing in Brooklyn or San Francisco: Guests have no idea what will be served until they show up. [SceneAsia/WSJ]

• New research about deals sites suggest people are just as much suckers for small discounts as large ones. [NRN]

FDA Uncomfortable With Corn Syrup Rebranding; Chipotle Opens ShopHouse Kitchen