Category: food

Mad about outrageous corkage fees? Here’s one to make you angrier

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 25, 2013

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.

Tags food, Save Money, wine

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It’s the one weight loss tip that EVERYONE can handle

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 24, 2013

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.”

Tags diet, food, How To, sleep

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On a diet? Here are 200 calorie snacks you can have (some are better than others)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 23, 2013

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.

Tags diet, food, How To

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Move over, Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale: there’s a new cake pan to consider

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 5, 2013

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.

Tags cooking, food, gender, shopping

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Gay households buy more alcohol than straight households

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 2, 2013

It’s been no secret about how much money legalizing gay marriage could add to the economy. What with the parties, suits and gowns, flowers, food, music — it’s not just any party, it’s a celebration.

So Web Watch isn’t surprised to see what one recent survey had to say about what same-sex households liked to spend money on.

Tags 10 Things, food, money, Relationships, shopping, survey

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Which is the Most Influential Beer of All Time?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 18, 2013

Who doesn’t enjoy a good beer?

Okay – we see a few of you out there who are claiming to be more of a wine enthusiast. And that’s okay – you can skip over this posting since there won’t be anything of interest to you here, unless you’re wanting to impress the beer lover in your life with your sudden knowledge of the Greatest Beers In The World.

Tags alcohol, beer, food, history, science, survey, website

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Apparently, 2008 was the “Year of the Potato”

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 2, 2013

Web Watch must have been busy back in 2008, as we totally missed that 2008 was the YEAR OF THE POTATO.

Funny thing about websites dedicated to a singular year’s event: those sites never really get updated. Yet they persist forever with slightly outdated information on them, just waiting for someone to stumble upon them and gaze upon their glory.

Tags food, health, Travel, website

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What would Batman eat?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 23, 2012

One thing about Superheroes – with all that spandex, certain body issues come into play.

Spiderman? Definitely.

Superman? For sure.

The Hulk? Not so much.

But Batman – he has more issues than a subscription to LIFE magazine.

Tags Batman, Cartoons, fast food, food, health, parenting