Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons Dara Strickland is a leading expert on sneaking food and drink into the movies. She reports on her exploits for Gut Check (from an undisclosed location) every Monday.One of the most famous portions of Plato's Republic is the Allegory of the Cave, a purported dialogue between master logician Socrates and Plato's dim but affable older brother, Glaucon. The gist is this: What if a bunch of people are chained together in a cave for their entire lives and never s
flickr.com/photos/avlxyzYou've surely been cautioned not to eat yellow snow. But in China, drinking yellow Snow is evidently big business. How big? Well, last year Snow -- a golden-lager brewed in China -- overtook Bud Light to become the No. 1 selling beer in the world. Snow saw its sales volumes jump 19.1 percent to 61 million hectoliters in 2008 putting it well ahead of Bud Light and sister brew Budweiser, according to a Reuters' article out today. Snow is a product of SABMiller and its Chin
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