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Deep-Fried Desserts Doom Your New Year Resolutions; Son of a Gun Starts Lunch

• With desserts like deep fried fluffernutter at Black Market and deep-fried Oreos at Beer Belly on the rise, your New Year’s resolutions are doomed. [L.A. Mag]

• The U.N. says global food prices are likely to remain high; however, in the U.S. at least, they may have peaked. Organic milk, however, might go up in price owing to shortages. Cough, first-world problems, cough. [Business Standard, Bloomberg, Salt/NPR]

• A Wendy’s in one of Tokyo’s luxury shopping districts is offering a $16 burger with truffles and foie gras. So, we’re still talking about the same Wendy’s, right … ? [NYDN]

• Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo’s Son of a Gun started lunch service yesterday, putting that great fried chicken sandwich in its proper place. [Eater]

• Here’s a gross one: A man claims he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew, but Pepsi Co. is saying that’s impossible, since the rodent would have become “a jelly-like substance” in processing. [NYDN]

• Jerry Dimitman, a professor who collected rare Asian fruit tress to sell at The Alhambra farmers market, has passed away at age 91. [LAT]

• After his recent fit on an airplane, a New York grocery chain has dropped Alec Baldwin as a spokesperson. [WSJ]

• After Chipotle opened its ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen concept, lawyers from the burrito giant went after New York’s Pure Thai Shophouse, forcing the little restaurant to change its name to Pure Thai Cookhouse. Que lame-o. [Midtown Lunch]

Deep-Fried Desserts Doom Your New Year Resolutions; Son of a Gun Starts Lunch