Frontiers of food technology

4 November 2005

First there was the nicotine patch, then there was nicotine gum, and now… nicotine beer. It’s being produced by a German company; the authors of the Reinheitsgebot must be spinning in their graves.

If this product makes it easier for nicotine addicts to tolerate no-smoking-in-restaurants laws, I suppose it’s a Good Thing. But what’s next? Tobacco Flakes breakfast cereal?

• Later: Wanted: The Gerald Ford Amendment
• Earlier: Down by by-law