Kingston, ON: Birthplace of the Pita… Pit

"Yes indeed, Kingston is the home of the very first Pita Pit. As such, and in the spirit of entrepreneurship, I feel it is appropriate to offer a suggestion to the Pita Pit franchise. Whenever I order a delicious chicken caesar pita, I cannot help but feel that things could...

Harvey’s Restaurant on Princess

"Harveys was welcome refuge from the blustering November cold. It also helped that we were hungry and in the mood for beef. Well, chicken too. Now Im fairly sure that pretty much everyone in Ontario knows how Harveys works. You order from a relatively simple menu...

COLOMBIA: New diseases effect Nomads

"COLOMBIA: New diseases hit nomads as government stands by 17 Nov 2006 The nomadic Nukak-Maku, one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in the world, has been hit by tuberculosis and chicken pox, putting their survival at serious risk. The Nukak are camped on the edge of a...

Regeneration: Scientist regrow chicken wing

Chop off a salamander's leg and a brand new one will sprout in no time. But most animals have lost the ability to replace missing limbs. Now, a research team at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has been able to regenerate a wing in a chick embryo - a species not...

Man locks wife in chicken coop

"A Romanian man is in trouble after he locked his allegedly unfaithful wife in the chicken coop for a week. The 70-year-old woman from Cotu Vames village in Suceava county managed to get out only after some neighbours called the police. They said they were alerted by the...

US fast-food chains sued over carcinogenic chicken (AFP)

" WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US doctors' group sued seven leading fast-food chains including McDonald's and Burger King over their use of a "dangerous carcinogenic" in grilled chicken. The Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) filed suit in...

Colleges go cellular to contact students (AP)

" CINCINNATI - For Ron Chicken and other freshmen at Montclair State University, the new freedoms that presumably came with college age included a mandatory cell phone with which the school could pinpoint their whereabouts on or off campus. "I think some didn't like the idea...

When I say "Chicken", y'all say "Chicken wing!" Chicken!

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Wendy's plans to use healthier cooking oil

"The country's third-largest burger chain said the blend of corn and soy oil has zero grams of artery-clogging trans fat per serving and will cut trans fat in those menu items by 95 percent. Wendy's will begin using the oil in its 6,300 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada in...

News Flash: Idiots Figure Out Chicken and Egg Paradox

" Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times,...

Boo Boo the Chicken dies

"AP - The exotic chicken that was saved from drowning by mouth-to-beak resuscitation more than three months ago has died, her owner said."