Treated PITA to the Mardi Gras celebration at Pappadeaux this year (we try to get there every year…) Ate an entire plate of oysters Pappadeaux, a loaf of french bread, some cheese thing, most of a King cheesecake, some gumbo, calamari and a Diet Coke…I told her to lay off the pina coladas – – Lordee, that girl can’t hold her liquor!
This YouTube video came from Handimania, sent to MUM and me by a sharp-eyed reader. Rachel, of course, posted immediately, while I sat there, mesmerized, going “How cool is this!!!” and PITA and I just watched it again…
Which once again proves I need a life. Watch because it shows an incredibly fast and easy way to separate yolks and whites and the entire video is less than 2 minutes long.
Yes, it’s time to play Name That Ethnicity! The fabulous marketing game where we see how hard advertisers try to hunt outside the white bread court: Left family is white parents with two kids – right family is Hispanic woman with two kids … obviously her husband is out working his second or third job (’cause a Mexican with only one job is considered unemployed – hey, I can say that ’cause DH is Mexican!)
Here’s a bit from the National Restaurant Association site about food insecurity, hunger and date codes:
…restaurant chains and supermarkets including Wegman’s, Publix, Kroger and Safeway are working on programs to cut waste and get surplus food to those in need, and a report issued last year by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic may help make it a bit easier.
The report found that more than 90% of Americans throw out food before it goes bad, largely because of confusion over “best by,” “sell by” and “use by” labels. The labels vary from state to state, store to store and brand to brand, with most designed to denote peak freshness and not food safety — food kept at proper temperatures can remain safe and nutritious far past those dates, while food not stored properly can go bad well before the date on the package, the report points out. Meanwhile, many if not most consumers see the dates as a deadline, after which the food must be tossed.
The authors call for a standardized system that makes “sell by” dates invisible to the consumer and clearly differentiates between dates meant to denote peak freshness and those meant to ensure food safety. Resources like FMI’s Foodkeeper Guide and USDA’s Kitchen Companion Safe Food Handbook consumers solid information on looking past the dates to determine whether food is safe to eat.
This mockup of the “average women’s magazine cover,” created in 2010 by writer and illustrator Brendan McGinley, resurfaced this week when TechnicallyRon tweeted it on Dec. 30. I saw it this time around on HuffPost.
McGinley’s parody cover features all-caps bold headlines like “Overanalyzing” and “The Shame & Guilt Issue,” taking a not-so-subtle swipe at “trashy” women’s magazines focused on sex and relationships.
Quick – what’s the first magazine that comes to mind?
Here’s the estimate of Santa’s current carbon footprint and suggested changes he could make in his manufacturing and delivery system to improve his numbers. See the entire graphic here.
Thanks to Melissa for this email ’cause it’s a fantastic deal! She commented on my Whole Foods post about this company and I got sucked into the black hole of coconut oil collecting, processing – very interesting stuff. Since you still have to pay shipping (from Nevada) for your free quart of coconut oil, I decided to grab the BOGO 32 oz coconut cream concentrate special as well. Here’s what my invoice looked like (I chose the cheapest, slowest shipping because I’m not in any hurry):
