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Is Jell-O really made from ground-up horse hooves? These are the kinds of questions the Internet is good for, since Jell-O definitely doesn’t list them as an ingredient. I discovered that gelatin, the main ingredient in Jell-O, is created through a lengthy process that first involves boiling the bones, skins, and hides of pigs and [...]
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Bryn and I saw a recipe last week that called for pine nuts. She warned me they were really expensive. Sure, nuts are pretty expensive in general. Then later, at Costco, we saw the pine nuts — for about $20 a pound! They must be delicious. But at that price, I’ll probably never know. Are [...]
So there’s this bread I like to get at Safeway, the Safeway Select 15 Grain bread. It’s pretty good and not too spendy. However, I have two complaints I’d like to voice. First, the bread comes double-bagged. There’s the normal outer-plastic bag, and then a tighter inner-plastic bag made of a different more “crinkly” material. [...]
Did you have Book It! at your elementary school? If you didn’t, you were missing out, because they gave you free pizza each month. Sure you had to read a little bit to earn your free pizza but it was totally worth it. Besides mom and dad were probably making you read anyway. Does this [...]
While checking out at Safeway last week, the cashier handed me a paper promoting a new savings program called Just For U. Just For U uses your Safeway Club Card purchase history and buying patterns to come up with special personalized offers and digital coupons. You create an account, login to their website and see [...]
If scientists and farmers can create cubic watermelons, I’m sure they can create a bunch of bananas that get ripe one day at a time. Because they get eaten one-a-day. In a typical bunch of six I might have a couple that are too green, a couple that are just right, and a couple that [...]
