Photo courtesy of Seattlest Flickr contributor zeebleoop Well, unless you want your burger to be a bun, pickles, lettuce cheese, and condiments. Or perhaps of the exotic meat or veggie variety. Local QFCs and Fred Meyers (parent company: Kroger) are recalling ground beef purchased at their stores over the past few weeks. The beef is being recalled after an outbreak of E. coli in the Midwest traced to the beef. Of course this recall comes......

The French call it Le Temps des Cerises, the Time of Cherries, the brief, shining moment when all's right with the world. For some, that's April, when the cherry trees are in their pink-blossom splendor. For the rest of us, it's mid-June to mid-August, when the fruit is ripe: cherry season. It doesn't last long, so do yourself a favor and buy this now: a cherry pitter. Then you can take advantage of the sales.......

The Interbay QFC isn’t going to sit back and watch Tom Selleck’s legacy as a crime-fighting, moustache-sporting sex god fade into obscurity. Paying curious homage to the macho man’s distinguished legacy is a DVD rack shoppers must pass en route to the "10 Items or Less" check-out that isn’t so much a collection of movies as it is a celebration of every movie Tom graced outside his tenure as former Navy Seal Thomas Magnum.......

It's a little eerie--one of the shovels has picked up a 15' stretch of I-beam and is using it to drag swaths of rubble up into a pile. Obviously there's someone in the cabin operating the thing, but glimpsed out of the corner of your eye, it looks like a machine has learned how to use tools. So goodbye old Broadway QFC! Goodbye, old Broadway Taco Bell! Goodbye, old house! Maybe now we'll see some......

Local supermarkets QFC and Fred Meyer have issued a recall on bottles of their Everyday Living Bleach. The companies have issued a warning about the potential for explosion when opened. Of course, because of the potential for explosion, the last thing QFC and Fred Meyer want you to do is return the bunk bleach bottles to the store. They will not take or replace the defective bottles. Rather they ask that you call the manufacturer......