• Selena Gomez was hospitalized over the weekend, allegedly for “food poisoning and exhaustion.” Sheesh, Bieber, go easy. Bizarrely, Jennifer Hudson allegedly contracted food poisoning too. [MTV UK, Third Age]
• Three people also got sick with food poisoning during The Playboy Jazz Festival at The Hollywood Bowl on Saturday. [UPI]
• A whole bunch of Marie Callender’s stores in California were abruptly shut down this weekend, some in the middle of lunch service. [Walnut Creek Patch]
• Though major issues remain, grocery chains and grocery store workers have made some progress towards averting a strike. [NBC]
• Australians apparently don’t know how to spell “pico de gallo,” but they are excited about Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo of Animal and Son of a Gun. [The Age]
• Speaking of food-borne illness, many of the E. coli sufferers will need kidney transplants or will have to undergo dialysis for the rest of their lives. [Local Germany]
• And while we’re on the topic of contamination, Taiwan destroyed 2.3 tons of beverages that contained the plasticizer DEHP, which “could cause future reproductive problems for boys.” [WP]
• Meal Snap, a new app that counts calories in pictures of food, works partly with the assistance of people who identify the food shots for two to five cents a pop. Sounds more fun than data entry. [WSJ]
