Cultivated Chicken; Japanese 7-11

• After all that hubbub, David Chang has announced he will no longer be pursuing trademark protection for “chili crunch.” It’s so wild that Momofuku thought its cease and desists would be received differently than they were.

• “In November, a push to create heat regulations for farm and construction workers in Miami-Dade County stalled because commissioners worried the rules ‘could potentially kill industry.’” The heat is killing people, but why should capitalists care. Luckily some farm workers figured out a way to get heat breaks. (Coddling the purchasers.)

• A restaurant in San Francisco was serving “cultivated chicken,” aka lab-grown meat, and it very much is not anymore. Nothing I’ve heard about lab meat makes me think it’s better for the environment.

• 7-11 was started in the U.S. but attained perfection in Japan. The owner of the Japanese 7-11s is thinking about expanding into the U.S. This must happen. Americans deserve onigiri too!

• I don’t know, maybe it doesn’t matter if TikTok cooks* are good or not. It’s just mindless entertainment either way. *I will not call them chefs, though. That’s my line in the sand.

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