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Food Banks Await DRPA to Deliver on Funding Promises; Eating In Restaurants Makes You Fat

• New Jersey food banks struggle to feed the hungry while $2 million in promised funding from DRPA remains unseen. [Inquirer]

• There is a bright-yellow banana-shaped car driving around Michigan. Reportedly, passerby find it very a-peeling. [Drive On/USAT]

• According to this, eating in restaurants makes you fat and “one meal away from home each week translates to roughly two extra pounds a year.” Uh-oh. [Orlando Sentinel]

• Hunger in North Korea has gotten so bad thanks to crop damage and the country’s “food deficit” that the E.U. has resumed food aid. Meanwhile, Oxfam is declaring that right now is the “biggest food crisis of the 21st century” for Africa. [ABC News AU, KBC News UK]

• A Philippine sugar-producers group is urging restaurants and hotels to boycott Coke, since the company doesn’t use local sugar anymore. They’re probably just jealous of that delicious Mexican Coke. [Sun Star Bacolod]

• Jay-Z is teaming up with “footballer” Ashley Cole to bring his 40/40 club across the pond to London. [Belfast Telegraph UK]

Food Banks Await DRPA to Deliver on Funding Promises; Eating In Restaurants