Food FYI: Consumers have to wait for lower coffee prices
COFFEE COSTS
The average monthly price for a pound of coffee fell 24% in July from a year earlier. But the price drop won’t trickle down to customers until next year. [U.S. News]
SPLASH LAB
Watch an IBC root beer bottle shatter to bits through the power of tiny bubbles in a video produced by the Brigham Young University Splash Lab. [Bon Appetit]
OVEN TEMP FALLACIES
Think your oven is at 350 degrees when you set the dial to 350? Nope. It’s anywhere between 330 and 370 degrees -- by design -- and that’s if it’s well calibrated. [Slate]
‘OBAMACARE’ WON’T KILL WHITE CASTLE
Slider fans: Evidence suggests that White Castle is exaggerating the effect that the Affordable Care Act will have on its profits, jobs and expansion. [Mother Jones]
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