Specialty beverage maker Jones Soda Co. will soon offer new green pea flavored soda to add to its roster of flavors like fish taco and salmon. Green pea is only one of the unique sodas being offered by the company alongside with turkey and gravy, dinner roll, sweet potato and antacid flavor. These flavors will be marketed as part of their $10 to $15 "holiday pack" of bottled drinks to be distributed nationwide.

A 43-year-old woman was arrested Friday for attempting to poison her sister and her sister's boyfriend with sandwiches laced with poison, police say. The woman's live-in sister called police and said she had found rat poison in her sandwich and in her boyfriend's sandwich. She said it wasn't the first time she found poison pellets in a sandwich, either.

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is now the first brand visible from space. KFC Corp. created a 87,500 square-foot image of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert where they hope to become the favorite for space travelers and aliens alike.

According to a Japanese newspaper, a young man entered a noodle bar in the western Japanese city of Osaka on Wednesday, ordered noodles, slurped them down, and then held the restaurant up with a knife demanding a local waitress hand over all the cash from the register. After obtaining the loot, the robber paid the waitress for his meal and even waited long enough to receive his change before leaving. The suspect is still at large. The police have not specified whether the assailant left the waitress a generous tip.

Chinese officials are trying to stamp out bad English found on most street signs and other labels in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics. Mistranslated phrases are a common problem throughout China with many street signs and product labels making little sense. "Chinglish" is often a cause of confusion and embarrassment.