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South Street Diner in Bathroom Brouhaha; Cereal Is Really Just Dessert

The South Street Diner now allows only customers to use its bathrooms in the wake of a choking incident in which owner Sol Sidell was accused of choking a relief-seeking Brockton woman. [UH]

• Children have known this for ages, but everyone else is just figuring out that breakfast cereals are basically dessert. [Salt/NPR]

• Martha Stewart got dirty on her show, comparing sausage casings to condoms. Don’t be so shocked, people, the woman spent months in prison. [HuffPo]

• Annoying types to dine with: the “order for the table” guy, the check nitpicker, the food snob, etc. Oh, and don’t forget people who get all their food knowledge from listicles. [Zagat via HuffPo]

• Thanksgiving-time this year set records for online pizza ordering. Where were you when? [NRN]

• World food prices have been falling for the past five months and are likely to bottom out, so better stock up now. [Bloomberg]

• As if that Angry Birds cookbook weren’t bad enough, The Hunger Games series has a cookbook, featuring the type of bizarro fare its characters eat (out of necessity): seaweed bread, fire-roasted rabbit. Fine, but if anyone puts out a recipe for mouse or dog, we’re calling uncle. [WSJ]

South Street Diner in Bathroom Brouhaha; Cereal Is Really Just Dessert