What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?
Some people don’t venture far from their own personal comfort zone when it comes to trying new foods. It’s why any FOOD CHALLENGE episode of any SURVIVOR season is always so much fun, as we watch people who are much hungrier than they normally would be throw their inhibitions away to get something – anything – into their stomachs.
Continue reading VIDEO FUN: HOW TO EAT A LIVE OCTOPUS
How long has it been since you were in college?
Remember how awesome it was to just head out to the university cafeteria and eat everything you wanted, just because you could? Hey – it was like an unlimited Las Vegas buffet, but without the cover charge. Unlimited pizza. Unlimited ice cream. Unlimited single-patty burgers (double-patty burgers only allowed on your first trip through the grill line).
Yeah, there’s a reason it’s called the Freshman 15, and it has nothing to do with the free beer you’re sucking down on weekends, either.
Continue reading TODAY’S CHALLENGE: SURVIVE ON MINIMUM WAGE FOR ONE MONTH
People are either “beer folks” or “wine folks”.
Web Watch has friends who absolutely refuse to have any wine whatsoever, preferring to only drink beer. Likewise, we know plenty of grape-heads who turn their noses up at beer.
Taste can be a funny thing, but we do agree that beer and wine flavors are completely different, so it’s understandable that there can be such a rift in opinions for favorite beverage.
As Web Watch told you earlier, BEER PONG is the MOST POPULAR DRINKING GAME around.
The premise is simple: throw a ball into a cup, make your opponent drink. Web Watch has even been to the WORLD SERIES OF BEER PONG out in Las Vegas, and we’ll be the first to tell you that THAT event is a party and a half, even if the entry fee (including room, which cuts down on driving liability issues) starts at $500 per person.
Back in the day (and it’s always “back in the day” with these types of stories, isn’t it?), Web Watch would be known to partake in a drinking game or two amongst friends.
Why? Mainly because the games themselves were kinda fun. A bit stupid, perhaps, but always a fun challenge. Drinking was merely secondary to the activity, as one never needs a “game” of any sort to take a drink whenever one would like.
The key, of course, is to know when to say when and back out of the activity. Drinking too much because of some stupid game rule is never a good idea for anyone.
Continue reading TOP 100 MOST POPULAR DRINKING GAMES, AND 5 DRINKING GAME TYPES
If you’re a brand manager, one goal of your job is to ensure that you have an active Social Media presence.
Some companies do it well. Some companies do it poorly. Some companies are non-existent in the social space. Those that do it well don’t necessarily need any more advice other than to keep doing what’s working. Those that do it poorly need all the help that they can get. And those that aren’t participating at all – well, maybe that’s okay for them. It depends on the industry and their products, we suppose. Continue reading TOP 9 BRANDS WITH THE LARGEST SOCIAL MEDIA MARKET SHARE
Ever since Robert Heinlein popularized the phrase TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch) in his popular sci-fi novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Especially in today’s litigious world, with McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuits and empowered/privilege-seeking children who demand a blue ribbon just for showing up at school that day – folks need to learn that eventually karma can come back to bite you.
You may be getting a free meal now, but at what future cost?
Continue reading WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR A FREE MEAL? (A CHALLENGE AWAITS…)
Losing weight is a constant battle for some. And as Web Watch has told you previously, it really all comes down to taking in fewer calories than you burn up in a day. Sure, there are other influences involved, such as the family gene pool or other non-controllable items — but for the vast majority of us, weight loss really is about reducing our food intake in a smart manner.
So while Web Watch is talking about how much food we throw away every year, it occured to us that we may have left one product out of the discussion.
Alcohol.
Remember when Web Watch told you about FOOD EXPIRATION DATES? All about how you can determine the shelf life of food?
And then we told you that it wasn’t just food that could expire, but that COSMETICS HAVE EXPIRATION DATES too?
Well, you at home aren’t the only people who pay attention to the SELL BY, BEST BY, or USE BY dates that you find on your local supermarket products.
It should come as no surprise that the supermarkets themselves do the exact same thing. And throwing out all that allegedly “expired” food costs each supermarket, on average, about $2,300.
Continue reading SUPERMARKETS THROW AWAY $2,300 WORTH OF FOOD EVERY DAY
Presenting, today’s obligatory PI DAY posting.
Today is March 14th, or 3.14 (“pi”, if you haven’t already figured this out).
Catch up on all your PI DAY-related posts here on Web Watch:
How many times have you decided to go to a restaurant, and instead of buying one of their (slightly) overpriced wines off their wine menu, you’ve brought a special bottle with you from home or from the liquor store down the street?
Web Watch likes to eat at one local favorite specifically because they don’t have a liquor license and encourage guests to bring a bottle of wine from home. They ask only $5 per bottle, perhaps to cover glass cleaning and the servers’ time in presenting the cork to us.
But considering that a $5 per bottle corkage fee is extremely reasonable in today’s restaurant world, we’re happy to pay that instead of other options that could be made.
Continue reading MAD ABOUT OUTRAGEOUS CORKAGE FEES? HERE’S ONE TO MAKE YOU ANGRIER
Web Watch knows how difficult it can be to stick to a specific diet plan.
It’s the one thing that everyone says that they’re doing (as we’ve mentioned in the past). What’s the old joke? “How can you tell if someone’s a vegan?”
“Don’t worry – THEY’LL tell you.”
Continue reading IT’S THE ONE WEIGHT LOSS TIP THAT EVERYONE CAN HANDLE
It seems that everybody is on some sort of diet these days.
Low carb diet, no carb diet, Atkins diet, South Beach diet, Full Body Cleanse, Grapefruit diet, Almond diet, Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem – the list goes on. We could even throw kosher, vegan, and vegetarian diets into the mix, as those are also both active decisions to eat food from specific food groups.
Look, all diets that are for weight-loss purposes (as opposed to diets for health reasons, such as for lactose-free, diabetic, or gluten-free diets) all come down to one thing: you’re supposed to take in fewer calories than you expend in a given day.
Continue reading ON A DIET? HERE ARE 200 CALORIE SNACKS YOU CAN HAVE (SOME ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS)
Parents and home bakers everywhere struggle with this problem every day.
Their kids want specialized character cakes, and the parents don’t want to violate Alton Brown’s credo of “no single taskers in the kitchen”. You don’t want to be stuck with a specialized character cake pan, only to end up with just one cake decorating option available to you until the end of time.
Continue reading MOVE OVER, COOKIE PUSS AND FUDGIE THE WHALE: THERE’S A NEW CAKE PAN TO CONSIDER
