"False alarm!" the barista (who turned out to also be the owner) barked to his colleague.

"What false alarm?" we inquired.

"We thought you were a health inspector."

Oh my, we thought. We must change our wardrobe if that's the vibe we're giving off.

This rather alarming and discouraging sign -- symbolic of a long, hot summer -- sat in front of the Lotto machine at Avenue P Pizza Lotto Beer at the corner of Avenue P and McDonald Avenue in the shadow of the F tracks.

Well, Miriam Simun is at it again. You'll remember she's the gal who, in pursuit of an MFA in interactive telecommunications, has proposed turning women into farm animals by way of using their milk to make human cheese. Proving, at least, that if you put cash on the barrelhead at NYU, they'll award you an advanced degree in nearly anything.

If you, like me, are a Chick-fil-A fan, you can probably remember the first time you were scurrying through some airport and paused momentarily to buy one, or were driving along some Southern road at about sunset and a franchise loomed up just as you were losing it from hungry. Wherever you were, the taste was magical: crisp and smooshy at once, with a fundamental chicken-y flavor.

In a press release that just hit our email box at Fork in the Road, Whole Foods announces the chain-wide implementation of their color-coding system for identifying fish according to sustainability, as certified by the Blue Ocean Institute and Monterey Bay Aquarium. The color-coding system was in the works for a long time, but the press release also announces a date for cessation of selling the most endangered fish (cod, halibut, grey sole, etc.), those designated with a red dot: Earth Day, 2013.

Our original challenge to Whole Foods, and their response.

Nice try, Whole Foods, but totally inadequate! You should stop selling the "red dot" (extremely endangered) fish immediately. What's the purpose of selling these severely overfished species for three more years? To exterminate them completely?

The text of the press release follows: