Omnivore - Daily Hash: An Open Letter From Pizza, Obama’s favorite Girl Scout Cookie, on Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay stance, and more

This vending machine will give you free snacks — as long as you bow down and praise it as the “Almighty One,” first.

President Obama reveals his favorite Girl Scout cookie — and gets booed for it.

In An Open Letter From Pizza by Dave Schilling, we learn that pizza’s got a few bones to pick with us. We need to reevaluate some things. First of all, you can’t eat me for every meal. It’s not healthy and it’s not normal. You should not be eating me for breakfast... unless I’m on a bagel, in which case, you can eat me any time.

Congress plans to cut funding for the USDA’s Microbiological Data Program which monitors produce for harmful pathogens that could lead to foodborne illnesses. The program has led to about 30 recalls since 2009, the Washington Post reports.

According to his HuffPo article, A Modest Proposal to Stop Tipping Bartenders, Stephen Robert Morse apparently has no love for America’s tipping culture — or bartenders.

Oh, and it might be difficult for Chick-fil-A to deny any future anti-gay accusations after a recent Baptist Press interview with Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy:

Some have opposed the company’s support of the traditional family. “Well, guilty as charged,” said Cathy when asked about the company’s position.

“We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.