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Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. Enjoy.<\/i><\/p>\n

Via NPR’s The Salt: Our Robot Overlords Are Now Delivering Pizza, And Cooking It On The Go<\/em><\/p>\n

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Collins and I are standing inside Zume’s solution: a delivery truck that looks standard \u2014 like something from FedEx or UPS \u2014 only it has 56 mini-ovens. They’re neatly stacked into two racks on wheels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Via Eater: All Hail the Pizza Saver<\/i><\/p>\n

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Pizza\u2019s most essential topping is a piece of plastic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Via The Daily Beast: Who Actually Created Buffalo Wings?<\/i><\/p>\n

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While reporting his buffalo wings story, Trillin met a black man named John Young who claimed it was he who by all rights deserved credit for inventing buffalo wings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Via Quartz: How unsanitary is double dipping anyway?<\/i><\/p>\n

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Double dipping\u2014practice of dipping a chip (or cracker, carrot, or anything other food that can be dipped) into a dip, then biting onto it, and dipping it again with the bitten side down<\/i> (dipping a non-bitten corner of a previously bitten food does not qualify as double dipping)\u2014is widely frowned upon and considered, aside from plain gross, unhygienic. But how bad is it, really?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via Food.Mic: The true \u2014 and truly creepy \u2014 history of Ronald McDonald<\/i><\/p>\n

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Ronald McDonald is a creepy dude. Not only is he a clown, which is chilling enough, but he’s a ghost-white, sketchy character who literally lures children into eating junk food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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