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Flower Foods Tosses Tasty Baking Co. a Much Needed Lifeline; Rare Disorder Causes a Florida Woman to Eat Sofas

• In a new deal that will spare the financially fraught iconic local snack cake baker from certain doom, Georgia-based Flower Foods, makers of Sunbeam bread, will pay $165 million for all outstanding shares of Tasty Baking Co.’s common stock. [Reuters]

• A Florida woman has a rare disorder that causes her to eat sofas. Yep, you read that correctly. [Daily Mail UK]

• A study found that people think food tastes better when it’s labeled “organic.” And when it’s labeled “inorganic,” people generally don’t eat it. [US News & World Report]

• Just like silly social conventions involving when to wear white shoes, some of the rules you may’ve learned about wine drinking have gone out the window. [WSJ]

• Yet another way that children ruin your life: A study found that mothers of young kids ate more junk food and consumed more calories than childless women. [NJ.com]

Flower Foods Tosses Tasty Baking Co. a Much Needed Lifeline; Rare Disorder