• The controversial gratuity protection bill went into effect yesterday, barring restaurateurs and business owners from using employees tips to cover credit card transaction fees. [Daily News]
• If you feel like you’re hungrier in the winter, you’re not alone: Research suggests there may be a primitive urge to stockpile calories when the days are shorter. [NPR]
• Those healthy MyPlate guidelines? Turns out the average American eats that way just seven days a year. [NYDN]
• In a display of (literal) poor taste, two Dutch TV hosts proceeded to have small parts of muscle surgically removed and then eat one another’s flesh.[HuffPo UK]
• Two ne’er-do-wells were caught trying to smuggle in butter from Sweden to sell at a profit in butter-starved Norway. [NYDN]
