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Thanks to Tony Timm from Kingswood College in Grahamstown for sharing this fantastic article

Choc-coffee combo: Caffeine addicts and chocoholics beware.

It might be zerowaste but it’s definitely not zerocalories. Bean hunters wanting to cut back on their throw-away cup habit will soon be able to drink their coffee, then eat the cup it came in.

Well, technically, a cone rather than a cup. It looks like a regular waffle ice-cream cone, except it’s lined with layers of dark chocolate to make it leakproof.

Customers don’t have to skol their drink straight away – the coating allows drinkers 10 minutes to enjoy their brew before the chocolate begins to melt.

The caffeine-dessert hybrid, which is rolling out across NSW and Victoria this month, is the creation of South African barista and entrepreneur Dayne Levinrad, who trained in Australia with Chris Karvelas from Harry’s in Bondi and Saxon Wright from Pablo and Rusty’s.

Any type of coffee or milk […]

Thanks to Tony Timm from Kingswood College in Grahamstown for sharing this fantastic article

Sarah Berry

Australians are spending more than half of their food budget on junk foods, despite a healthier diet being more affordable.

These are the findings of research being presented by public health expert and dietitian Professor Amanda Lee at the Dietitians Association of Australia’s National Conference in Hobart this week.

Lee and her team from the Queensland University of Technology found that Australians spend, on average, 58 per cent of their food and drink budget on discretionary foods.

“I was very surprised,” Lee says. “We know that Australian adults have about 35 per cent of their energy intake that comes from what we call discretionary foods and drinks – so foods and drinks that are high in sat fat, sugar, salt or alcohol that aren’t needed for a healthy diet. For kids it’s up to 40 […]

Thalia Holmes 08 Apr 2016 00:00

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Forget German cars and luxury watches, fast-food consumption could be the most reliable indicator of prosperity of the middle class in South Africa.

The local fast-food industry brings in more than R300-billion every year, according to Insight Survey, a South African-based market research company. Statistics South Africa recorded income from the “takeaway and fast-food outlet” sector as R170-billion in 2015.

The percentage of adults who buy fast-food at least once a month increased from 66% in 2009 to more than 80% in 2015.

A Euromonitor report estimates that the number of consumers in this sector will increase to 42-million people in the next two years.

In its highest month last year, April income in the fast-food and takeaway industry surged by 13.3%, according to StatsSA, more than double the rate of inflation. Analysts believe that investments in the sector will continue to grow even more quickly than the waistbands […]

By Press Association
PUBLISHED: 11:07 BST, 19 May 2017 | UPDATED: 10:48 BST, 21 May 2017

A morbidly obese wild monkey who gorged himself on junk food and soft drinks left behind by tourists to Thailand has been rescued and placed on a strict diet.
Wildlife officials caught the chunky monkey – nicknamed “Uncle Fat” by locals at a market in Bangkok – after photos of the animal started circulating on social media last month.
Wild monkeys roam free in many parts of Thailand, attracting tourists who feed and play with the animals. Most of the monkeys are macaques like Uncle Fat, and they typically weigh around 20lb.
Uncle Fat weighs three times that, tipping the scales at around 60lb.
The wild macaque weighs about 60lb (Sakchai Lalit/AP)
“It was not easy to catch him,” said Kacha Phukem, the wildlife official who conducted the capture and rescue on April 27. “He was the leader of his pack, […]

The secret behind RocoMamas’ social media success

BY LEBOGANG TSELE 

Published: 13 Feb, 2017 08:44 AM

With more than 17,000 followers on Twitter, 30,000 followers on Instagram and in excess of 200,000 followers checking into the company’s Facebook page and 18,000 people talking about the brand via this site, RocoMamas are certainly rocking their brand online, says Chantal Meugens.

Meugens is the founder and managing director at CM Freelancing, a company that offers social media management as well as other services.

RocoMamas burgers are a social media staple in the country and co-founder Brian Altriche, has in various interviews, credited their social media success as one of the contributing factors to the brand’s overall success.

Their trendy – “We’re not normal” brand position has resonated with their customers who readily engage with the brand online as readily as they enjoy the ‘rock-n-roll’-themed menu.

There are only a handful of brands that have been able to do what RocoMamas has done on their social media platforms and one of those is the […]

McDonald’s diners tweet their fast-food disasters – with half-full fries boxes, a cookie with bite marks and a burger missing the burger

Customers have been roasting the fast-food chain using the hashtag #McDonaldsfail

By Gemma Mullin and Matthew Acton

4th April 2017, 3:34 pm

Updated: 4th April 2017, 4:58 pm

 DISAPPOINTED McDonald’s diners have been sharing pictures of their shoddy fast-food meals – including some with burgers missing the meat and even a cookie with bite marks.

Using the hashtag #McDonaldsFail on social media, customers have roasted the fast food restaurant amid claims their meal wasn’t quite what they had ordered.

Instagram user Annie shared this picture of her son Teddy’s Happy Meal which she said came without the burger

A customer shared this picture of a cookie which she claims she took out the bag with a ‘bite missing’

One customer claims they asked to have the cheese slice from their burger on the side – but staff took it a bit […]

Can I Supersize that?: An XL Big Mac Meal from McDonalds contains 7215 kilojoules of energy and 111.5 grams of sugar (approximately 27 teaspoons of sugar). One of these meals would make up approximately 69% of a man’s daily energy intake and 85% of a woman’s daily energy intake. (http://bit.ly/2oYWR4v, http://bit.ly/2nIKMjE)