Frito-Lay announced plans today for a plant just south of Richmond that will employ more than 1,000 workers in an operation dedicated solely to the production of lime dust, a seasoning that is later blasted onto the snacking company’s popular Hint of Lime-flavored Tostitos tortilla chips. “To make just one little chip with only a ‘hint’ of [...]

Her skin bronzed by summers spent on the Virginia Beach boardwalk and face wrinkled from both old age and cigarette usage, Richmond woman Kirby Danforth announced, amid phlegm-heavy coughing, her intent to open and begin another package of Virginia Slims. “A-hack, a-hack, a-hack,” the 63-year-old said, finagling with the plastic wrapper on a box of the long, [...]

Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones ate an entire sleeve of Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies during a 30 minute conference call yesterday, sources said. “Right, yes, take a look at these amendments to the proposed fiscal twenty-ten budget and we can see that nom, nom, nom,” the mayor said, crunching on three of the mint-flavored chocolate [...]