Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald’s have long symbolised capitalism’s villainous effects on our nation’s most vulnerable communities.

Hey ho ya little Banquet loving fools! Today's show is nasty, polarizing and slanderous. So, in many ways, it's like any other week but it's also riddled with cottage cheese, jelly beans, and grown people deep throating corn dogs left and right.

This week on A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Andrew F. Smith, author of the book Fast Food: The Good, The Bad and The Hungry.

On this inaugural episode of HRN News, our crack team examines how your favorite sushi might be endangered, Canada's cannabis politics, and why your memory might be linked with fat.

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On this week's episode of What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined in the studio by Andrew F. Smith, a writer and lecturer on food and culinary history.

On this week's Let's Get Real, the theme is "one of these things does not belong." Chef Erica Wides reminisces about the darker, grittier days of Sesame Street, expresses bewilderment at the new McDonald's chicken-and-pancake sandwich, and reveals her current favorite food item: the Okin