Food to waste, ‘missing’ Butterfingers, dream jobs and more

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-- Has someone laid a finger on your Butterfinger candy bar? Well, don’t worry. It’s insured. Butterfinger.com says it has taken out a $1 million policy with Lloyd’s of London to cover your ‘missing’ candy bar. According to the fine print on this insurance policy, truth is optional. -- From Southern California Public Radio: State studies have found that more than 6 million tons of food products are dumped annually, enough to fill the Staples Center in Los Angeles 35 times over. Food is the largest single source of waste in California, making up 15.5% of the Golden State’s waste stream, according to the California Integrated Waste Management Board. Read more on food waste here:

-- Need an offbeat Mother’s Day gift? You might want to peruse Adornments & Ornaments, which includes ‘foodie jewelry,’ including a soybean inspired pendant and fork-and-spoon pendants.

-- A sports-foodie’s dream job: As the Major League Baseball regular season is about to begin, it’s worth asking: Who feeds all these guys? Turns out each of the 30 teams in the league has a clubhouse chef fueling the players, preparing meals for the home and away teams during the season. CNN offers up this profile of one such dream jobber: Jeremy Bryant, 37, a die-hard Seattle Mariners fan and their clubhouse chef.

-- We can’t tell this one better than Food News Journal’s Twitter feed, so we’ll let them have at it: ‘600-lb food scammer eats the evidence. Too fat for jail. Crime - and heft - do pay?’

--Rene Lynch
On Twitter @renelynch