Category: food

Are you super fat? You can make $90,000 a year by doing practically nothing

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 7, 2011

What one pound of fat looks like
Model replica of one-pound of fat

Being fat isn’t necessarily good for you.

But Donna Simpson made it work for her.

How? Donna Simpson was the Guinness World Record holder for “World’s Heaviest Mother” and clocked in at 600 lbs on her 5’2″ frame.

Yeah, that’s a lot of woman. And we’re sure that Web Watch readers are asking the same thing — when you weigh 600lbs, what can you do to earn a living? It certainly can’t be easy manuevering around a workplace when you’re that big.

Well, you could do what Donna did.

Tags business, diet, health, Internet, medical, money, website, World Record

10 Things food Internet

What’s the most popular fast food restaurant? It’s all about who has the most friends.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 2, 2011

Fast Food: A History of Wendy's, Arby's, Burger King and Other Popular Fast Food Restaurants
Fast Food: A History of Wendy’s, Arby’s, Burger King
and Other Popular Fast Food Restaurants

When we see a question like the one above (“What’s the most popular fast food restaurant in the world”), the answer can be quite varied.

If you’re talking about the most popular in terms of “french fries”, you’re likely going to be talking about McDonald’s.

If you’re talking about most popular in terms of number of US outlets, then Subway has almost twice as many as the next nearest chain.

No, today we’re going to look at this in a slightly different way — using the power of social marketing and community engagement, Web Watch is going to determine the Most Popular Fast Food Chain, based on the number of Facebook Likes. (the list of Top Fifty Fast Food Restaurants provided by QSR magazine)

Tags 10 Things, business, facebook, fast food, food, Internet, mcdonalds, restaurants, survey

food Games Websites

Today’s Game? Scandybars!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 28, 2011

M&M Mars Variety Pack

Here’s a fun game for you try try playing:

Can you IDENTIFY THE CANDY BAR FROM ITS CROSS-SECTION?

Continue reading “Today’s Game? Scandybars!”

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food

Nobody wants those traditional giant sandwiches at Jewish delis anymore

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 14, 2011
1 Comment on Nobody wants those traditional giant sandwiches at Jewish delis anymore

How to Feed Friends and Influence People:
The Carnegie Deli…A Giant Sandwich, a Little Deli, a Huge Success

“I’ll have what she’s having.”

Everybody knows the classic deli line delivered by Billy Crystal’s real-life mom in the movie WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.

But it ends up that what everybody is having in the traditional Jewish deli may not be what you’re going to get anymore. There is a referendum among deli owners to CUT DOWN ON THE SIZE OF THOSE GIANT SANDWICHES, and instead serve meals that are a little bit healthier and better for the customer.

Tags business, food, Legal, restaurants

food Travel

America’s Best Ice Cream Cities

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 10, 2011

The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas…

As you know, Web Watch likes to travel quite a bit – and when we do, we make it a point to not eat at chain restaurants whenever possible.

No, we purposefully go out of our way to find the best places in town, places where the locals eat.

At times, we’ve done fairly well for ourselves – along with earning the respect of our travelling companions who would never in a million years end up eating where we end up.

So of course we’re going to have to visit each of the locations that FOOD & WINE have called AMERICA’S BEST ICE CREAM CITIES:

Tags food, ice cream, Travel

food

The 10 most common ingredients in Fast Food

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 25, 2011

Fast Food Panic for Nintendo. Buy now!

When you order a fast-food combo meal, like Web Watch did today, you’re not just getting a burger and fries – that is, a meal made solely of meat, bun, ketchup, pickles, cheese, potatoes, some salt and oil.

No, you’re getting quite a few more ingredients thrown into the mix. That bun? Probably has some sugar in it. Those fries? Maybe some extra starch was sprayed on them before cooking.

Tags fast food, food, restaurants, science, survey

food shopping Websites

Announcing the 2011 Xtreme Eating Awards – the 8 highest calorie restaurant menu items

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 21, 2011

Rachel Ray - Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes
Buy the book “Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes”

For the past few years, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has been monitoring what restaurants have been serving, as a way to inform the public about the horrors that await them when eating wonderful, delicious restaurant food.

Web Watch, like you, loves cheese.

We apparently didn’t know that adding cheese to any meal is typically a no-no when it comes to eliminating fat and calories from one’s diet. So we’re torn – cheese tastes good, but it’s bad for you.

Oh well – maybe we’ll just have one or two small bites, then set the rest of these phenomenally sounding meals away to snack on later. Can’t let all that cheese go to waist, can we? (See what we did there? Looks like we mispelled “waste” as “waist”. Ha!)

Tags 10 Things, diet, food, restaurants, shopping, website

food

Survey shows home cooks regularly serve food off the floor

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 15, 2011

5 Second Rule apron
Buy the 5-SECOND RULE APRON

Web Watch tries to follow a strict rule of thumb when it comes to restaurants that we’ll frequent: we prefer restaurants with a relatively high health score.

For states that follow letter grades, nothing below an “A”.

For states that follow a numeric scale from 0-100, nothing below a “90”.

We know health inspectors and restaurant owners. We’ve read the restaurant report cards. We know that the end-resulting score is a negotiation up, rather than a negotiation down. In other words, if the score is a “81”, you have to wonder what the original score was before the inspector and the restaurant owner came to various agreements over the validity of certain infractions. To us, that “81” is really a “75”. And Web Watch refuses to eat at a place where cleanliness is just average.

Tags cleaning, food, Party Talk, survey