Vegan Yogurt Recalled Because It’s Not Actually Vegan

If your vegan products are marketed as “so wickedly good, you’ll barely believe its ingredients are not in the slightest bit naughty,” you may want to make sure that claim is actually true. One company found out the hard way. CO YO, which makes non-dairy yogurt, got a bit of a surprise when traces of milk were found in their supposedly vegan goods.

When your company’s name is an abbreviation for the phrase “coconut yogurt” you shouldn’t expect this to happen. You had one job, vegan yogurt, one job! Will we ever learn to trust again?!

Apparently a third-party supplier was responsible for the mix-up. CO YO has since cut ties with them “to ensure this never happens again.” “We are devastated by this, especially as being dairy-free sits at the heart of everything we do,” the company said in a statement on Twitter. You can read their full statement in the tweet below:

We are so devastated to say traces of dairy has been found in our CO YO products. If you have any CO YO products with a Use By date earlier than the 16.03.18 please contact your store for a full refund. We are here to answer any questions and are so sorry for the inconvenience. pic.twitter.com/3gNRx7ozFH

— coyo.uk (@coyo_uk) February 20, 2018

While the UK-based company sells its products in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, the tainted batch of yogurt was only sold in Britain. And rest-assured, they are offering full refunds to anyone who bought the yogurt with a “use by” date earlier than March 16, in case you feel duped. In the meantime, we’ll be extra skeptical of the ingredients in any seemingly healthy product. Because if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. You are better off sticking with junk food instead.

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The Meatball Pizza Bowl Is Olive Garden’s Latest Lunch Mash-Up

Olive Garden has done it again. The casual dining chain, best known for its generous heaps of unlimited salad and breadsticks, wants you to stuff your face with even more doughy goodness. Their latest menu item is the Meatball Pizza Bowl…and it’s a doozy.

The hybrid food consists of a dense bread bowl filled with sauce, cheese, and 10 meatballs. Think of it like spaghetti and meatballs without the spaghetti, but with an inverted mountain of meaty pizza. Regardless of how you mentally conceive of it, it’s huge. And despite what the picture may suggest, the thing is a behemoth. According to spokesperson, it spans six to seven inches “depending oh how much the pizza dough spreads.”

This food mash-up will live on the lunch menu, alongside other culinary monstrosities such as Italian nachos, breadstick sandwiches, and fried lasagna.

“I wanna celebrate #NationalPizzaDay but Olive Garden doesn’t have pizza.” – A bunch of people who were wrong before seeing this tweet. pic.twitter.com/EgIH5x6jIT

— Olive Garden (@olivegarden) February 9, 2018

But before you go hating on Olive Garden, just remember that this is one of the few chain restaurants millennials aren’t killing. In fact, Darden Restaurants, the parent company of OG, just reported record-high sales last year. They’ve garnered way fiercer brand loyalty than many of their competitors such as Applebee’s and TGI Fridays. One young couple even named their child after the restaurant, and not even because they were paid or dared to do so! That’s the power of all-you -can-eat breadsticks.

We’re guessing pizza bowls will only keep the youth’s undying love affair with Olive Garden going, because who doesn’t want to gorge on a Mount Vesuvius full of meatballs? But before you do, you may want to brush up on their surprisingly robust wine list. Once you’ve picked out a quality red, get ready to carbo-load!

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Despite Gentrification, This 50 Year-Old San Francisco Pin Shop Thrives

In 1967 an unexpected and, one might say, “out-of-place” shop opened on 9th Avenue and Irving Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District. At a time when Irving Street was flourishing with family-owned businesses and restaurants, a scene of new cultural cuisines quickly started to appear, including classic and diverse influences. But with a vastly changing neighborhood comes a fading past. One store in the midst of change refuses to succumb to gentrification and humbly awaits intrigued customers with open arms.

Nestled between a yoga center and a seafood restaurant is the Oriental Art Gallery, run by an adoring woman, Su Lee. With the overflow of new designer clothing brands, hipster coffee shops, restaurants, and knick-knack stores, the pit stop can’t be missed during your next food tour of the area.

After a meal, a step into this shop leaves you with a feeling of nostalgia and wonder. Every inch is covered in pins, vintage memorabilia baseball cards, skulls, classic action figures, and tiny glass ornaments. It will take a moment to look at everything but every trinket is truly one of a kind.

Lee credits her immense collection of pins to a variety of sources, including a close friend. “He travels and brings back pins for me,” she says. When customers ask for certain pins, she’ll also go out of her way to get them. “Avocado pins are really popular right now.”

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Despite the abundance of pins online (like the avocado and summer fruit pins, taco hot sauce set, and coffee and sweets set featured above), certain styles and vintage options have become  increasingly rare. “Pins are hard to find now because people who make them are retiring,” says Lee.

Certain pins can only be found at her shop and hold a rich history. One of her favorites is made by artist Josh Ellingson, featuring Lee herself behind the counter and extending a heart-shaped variety.

In the late 1960s and ’70s, before selling pins and other collectibles, Oriental Art Gallery mostly sold scrolls and calligraphy supplies. As Lee’s collections of pins began to grow, her shop underwent a slight makeover, but her business has remained true to its own idiosyncratic self for the past 50 years, and there seems to be no pressure in changing or moving now.

Josh Ellingson

“My store has been here a long time compared to the other ones around here,” says Lee.

Irving Street is an underrated food scene, as well. The area has many gastronomic delights that blend old with new. Pasquale’s pizzeria, for example, has been on the corner of 8th Avenue and Irving since 1942, while trendy establishments like Lemonade have just opened their doors to a modern-seeking public.

And still, the Oriental Art Gallery has weathered the changes and not only survived, but thrived. It’s the hidden treasure of the area, whose history is preserved in its every nook and cranny, every friendly greeting, and every unique pin.

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