Food

October 8th, 2010

Sun-Maid raisins claim to be 100% natural, yet the package clearly shows green grapes.  Do they magically turn dark when they dry? Apparently so.  When left to dry in the sun, even green grapes turn dark.   Maybe I’ll try it sometime.  The lighter colored grapes are oven-dried instead of sun-dried, and sometimes even chemically treated [...]

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October 7th, 2010

I got this wonderful note in my inbox the other day, a recruiting letter to join the Lobsters-Online.com affiliate program. The world is your lobster!  Aside from some typos, this sounds like a pretty compelling business. Wait a tick… live lobsters?  Sure enough, they’ll deliver a live animal to your door, and even guarantee it [...]

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September 28th, 2010

Witnessed some freakish food at Safeway the other night.  Is this where genetically modified crops have got us? This masterpiece was among the heirloom tomatoes.  I think it ate the other ones.  It’s like a Franken-tomato, even looks all stitched together. Then I found this ginormous apple, about the size of small watermelon.  Bryn held [...]

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September 23rd, 2010

Have you seen the new Wheat Thins commercials that use real people who tweeted about the product?  I think it’s pretty great marketing (even though some elements aren’t entirely true). This guy wanted crunch-proof headphones: This guy used a wheat thin to pick his air guitar. The company contacted the commercial’s stars’ friends and family [...]

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September 21st, 2010

If you enjoy Red Robin cheeseburgers, you owe it to yourself to go to RedRobin.com and join their email list.  They send you a free burger certificate each year on your birthday! Great deal for everyone involved.  The birthday boy or girl gets their free burger and Red Robin gets some extra business they might [...]

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September 15th, 2010

Trader Joe’s is great for a lot of grocery shopping, and it has the bonus of being on the same side of the freeway as the gym.  But I’ve learned the hard way there’s some stuff that’s best left to Safeway or Costco.  For other stay-at-home dads who do the majority of the grocery shopping, [...]

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