All lunchboxes are subject to inspection
Now that it’s back-to-school time again, Web Watch would like to take a look at what SCHOOLS ARE BANNING FROM THE LUNCH ROOM:
Yes, it’s all about ensuring that today’s kids are eating healthy foods in the school cafeteria.
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Homeless and begging on the street is not a way to go through life. But sadly, there are millions of people who – for whatever reason – find themselves having to do so.
Some do so willingly, as it is a better way of life than the one they left behind. Others do it because they have no other choice, and they struggle to scrape enough together to have a meal, a toothbrush, some occasional clean clothes.
One reporter decided to see what the homeless really wanted, if money was seemingly no object. So they GAVE THE HOMELESS VISA and AMERICAN EXPRESS GIFT CARDS with fixed dollar amounts to spend. The plan was to offer the gift cards to any panhandler who asked for money, but the promise was to go out any buy only what you need, but to return the card to the reporter within 30 minutes.
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“Whiskey,” to paraphrase Homer Simpson. “…is there nothing you can’t do?”
Apparently not, if you take James Gilpin as an example.
James Gilpin knows a bit of science behind the making and distilling of whiskey, and he knows that all he needs is some good sugar water to make the stuff. So, being a type-1 diabetic, Gilpin turned to one resource that he had readily available to him.
Introducing GILPIN FAMILY WHISKEY. It’s WHISKEY MADE FROM PEE. More specifically, the whiskey is made from the pee from diabetics, whose urine often contains high levels of sugar.
Mousetrapped: A Year and a Bit in Orlando
Web Watch has to admire people like Lisa Ray.
Lisa has strong convictions and a big stick-to-it attitude that isn’t often seen elsewhere. She really does mean what she says, and says what she means. Good for her.
Lisa, the founder of PARENTS FOR ETHICAL MARKETING, was upset at how the Disney corporation handled a refund request for the Baby Einstein line of early-learning DVDs. Her reaction to those events (already documented elsewhere) led her to comment to her family, “I wish we could boycott Disney. But I don’t think we can. They’re too big.”
This got her 12-year-old daughter thinking, and she suggested that maybe they could go a year without Disney.
Lisa liked this idea so much, she decided that was exactly what she and her family were going to do: go A YEAR WITHOUT DISNEY.
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Web Watch is a fan of Food Network.
We like to cook. We like to eat. We like to learn about new places to eat, new cooking techniques, and maybe have some fun along the way.
We’ve eaten at a number of Food Network-related restaurants: Guy Fieri’s JOHNNY GARLIC’s, Keegan Gerhard’s D BAR DESSERTS, Robert Irving’s EAT, and at any number of Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse, and Wolfgang Puck locations across the country. Sometimes the food at the celebrity restaurants is merely adequate; other times it’s been phenomenal and has lived up to the hype. But the journeys to eat at each location are always worth the trips.
Web Watch is not alone in our enjoyment of Food Network. Over the years, Food Network has developed so much cooking- and food-related programming that they were able to program a second cable offering, Cooking Channel. Obviously, there’s a demand for Food TV.
But with the growth that Food Network has had, there had to be some speedbumps along the way to trip them up.
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Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit
Competitive eating is not everything you may think it is. It’s not all glory on the playing field, and unless you really want to devote your life to travelling around the country in order to eat yourself silly, there really isn’t enough money to be made in eating contests to call being a “Professional Eater” a full-time career.
One has to wonder if the lack of cost-of-living raises is one of the reasons that Takeru Kobayashi, the former World Champion Hot Dog Eater, refused to sign a contract with the IFOCE and ended up rushing the stage at this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.
And considering the amount of effort that the IFOCE and ESPN put into making the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and its world-famous Mustard Yellow Belt a cultural lynchpin in our annual July 4th festivities, it’s really surprising that the NATHAN’S CONTEST WAS NOT THE COMPETITIVE EATING CONTEST WITH THE MOST PRIZE MONEY over the past year.
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Peter Griffin, Passed Out Drunk
Question for our Web Watch readers: how many drinks does it take before you pass out?
Here’s a better question: when was the last time you drank so much that you did pass out?
Better still: does anyone have photos of you passed out?
Mountain House canned food – 25 year long shelf life
One common food joke is that Hostess Twinkies can survive through almost anything, with an infinite shelf life. Truth be told, the common Twinkie’s shelf life is a more realistic 25-days. Seriously – who even keeps Twinkies in the house that long?
Every once in a while, you should take the time to clean out your pantry. It’s not just a good idea from a re-organizational viewpoint, but also as a way to rotate the older foods you have stacked in the back of the cupboard towards the front so that they can be used in a more timely manner.
Yes, everything in your pantry has a shelf life – except for honey, which can pretty much be stored indefinitely. Sometimes things will merely go stale, such as crackers or cereals. Other pantry items will turn rancid and become inedible and should be tossed to prevent anyone from getting sick from eating it.
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