Two journalists, Stephen Nohlgren and Terry Tomalin, from the St. Petersburg Times went around to eleven local restaurants in the Florida bay area to verify whether or not the grouper fish that patrons were ordering were actually what they claimed to be, as offered by the restaurants on their menus. Unfortunately, the survey results, based on DNA testing, revealed that five of the 11 restaurants were actually serving "fakes," which included varieties of other fish, such as Asian catfish called basa, tilapia, a European hake fish, and one unidentified fish that was positively not from the grouper family.

A bar in eastern China is allowing its customers to release their anger, frustration or pent up emotions by hitting its staff. The China Daily says the "Rising Sun Anger Release Bar" located in Nanjing, eastern China allows customers to smash glass and even hit the restaurant's specially trained workers.

Worms have a room of their at one plush hotel in South Africa. The five-star Mount Nelson uses red wrigglers or tiger worms to eat scrap food and in turn, the worms produce rich compost and fertilizer. Their fluid excrement is called "worm tea" and is harvested to be used as a fertilizer in the hotel's gardens. The worm's other by-product is vermicast, a rich compost.

South Carolina's health department shuts down the salad bar at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant after a teen finds a mouse on his plate. The state Department of Health and Environmental Control says an initial investigation indicates the restaurant is not to blame for the incident, as it did not find evidence of mice infestation or droppings. Soon-to-be high school senior Edward Viehman, 17, says he saw the mouse on his plate right after taking the first bite.

A Japanese research team is planning to run a campaign on environmental awareness by entering a racecar that runs on cooking oil, used to fry tempura, in the Dakar rally. Hidefumi Onaka, a lecturer at the Osaka Sangyo University, said Toyota's Land Cruiser 100 would be the first racecar to run on bio-diesel in the prestigious sporting event. Onaka told the Canadian Press, "We want to show what tempura oil can achieve, as a way to raise environmental awareness. . . We're not doing it just for fun, so we decided to enter an internationally acclaimed event and appeal to the world. "