Thread trd = new Thread(new Runnable(){
	 			  public void run(){
	 			 		HttpTransport TRANSPORT = new NetHttpTransport();
	 			 		HttpRequestFactory requestFactory = TRANSPORT.createRequestFactory();
	 			 		GenericUrl url = new GenericUrl(foodString);
	 			 		HttpRequest request;
	 			 		String foodResult = null;
						try {
							request = requestFactory.buildGetRequest(url);
		 			 		foodResult = request.execute().parseAsString();
						} catch (IOException e) {
							// TODO Auto-generated catch block
							e.printStackTrace();
						}
	 			 		parseUtilities(foodResult);
	 			  }
	 			});
	 			trd.start();
	 	}