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It's big enough to share and "dripping with hot oil and sex," according to Stoned Appetit host Kip Wilson.It's impossible to deny the appeal of mozzarella sticks. Cheese, breaded and fried, then dunked in marinara? That's a winner every time. Even the frozen kind plopped into an air fryer is pretty hard to resist. But not all mozzarella sticks are created equal. Our friends at Stoned Appetit know that, which is why podcast host Kip Wilson often posts mozzarella stick reviews, dishing out scores for "pull game," "taste and texture," "marinara" and "how it makes me feel." Now a new...

Any way you slice it, Americans are obsessed with pizza. One in eight of us are noshing it on any given day, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And the average American consumes pizza about 39 times a year, according to the NPD Group, a market research firm. The signature of a great American-style pizza is not the toppings du jour but the cheese: hot, gooey mozzarella, with big, dark splotches of caramelization. Pizzerias didn't happen upon that winning recipe by coincidence. Food scientists have been studying and finessing the low-moisture part-skim mozzarella we now put on most of...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The spectre of a new food scare loomed over Europe on Thursday as Italy faced a possible EU ban on imports of mozzarella cheese because of high levels of dioxins in the milk used to make it. The European Commission warned Italy it could follow Japan and South Korea's lead in imposing an import ban on mozzarella cheese made from buffalo milk from the southern region of Campania. After a 6:00 p.m. (1700 GMT) deadline for Rome to provide more complete information expired, the European Union's executive arm called for urgent action and warned of unspecified steps...

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October 5 Today is the Anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus! The Flying Circus debuted this day, 35 years ago, on television at 10:50 PM on BBC-1. The world was never the same. (October 5, 1969)

Since I am approaching my one year anniversary of being a "freeper" and since I have never contributed a dime to FR, jim or the republican party, I am going to beat the powers to be at FR and voluntarily leave, rather than have them come up with one of the cock and bull stories to ban me. Been fun,Bye