My favorite part is how the multi-colored pennant flags..fantastic.

WHY??

2nd ingredient, Casein. DUH!

and also, NOT VEGAN

That’s right, MorningStar Farms Bacon Strips. Why…well let’s just say, the #1 ingredient is, egg whites.

I am an ass.

So, to my very dear Vegan friends whom I totally screwed up dinner for…if you ever let me make food for you again, everything will be from scratch.

WTOP NEWS, CONSIDER YOURSELF ON NOTICE!!

Got home, went to twist off the top and instead ripped off a bit of skin. Ahh, no sissy ‘fake top’ for the lazy types here. Good thing I didn’t try to enjoy this beverage in my car, would have been annoyed that it wouldn’t have been ‘instantly gratified’. I guess Mexico still carries those old soda machines with the built in bottle opener.

The Jarritos tasted great, glad I chose Lime. I consider lime as a standard when it comes to beverages.. if a company can’t get a simple flavor like lime, I walk away.. no need to test grape, fruit punch, etc. There was just the right amount of carbonation, much less than their American competitors but enough that made it quite tasty. Speaking of which, the taste immediately transported me back to the end of my t-ball games eating those Slushies. Some may disagree, but I thought the sugar content was a bit high but doable (once.)

All was very well.. enjoyed the product, satisified with my purchase, happy not to have thrown my money away. That’s what I thought, until about an hour later. CRASH CITY!

Holy cow, I didn’t really get a ’sugar high’ but boy oh boy did the crash hit me. I located the bottle and looked at the sugar content (something I normally don’t do) and there was 28 grams of sugar in that bottle. Not too bad, but thankfully companies have found that consumers love reading labels quickly and go, ‘hey that’s not too bad for me’. Oh, crap, there’s two serving in one bottle!!! WTF?  That means there is approximately 14 teaspoons or 4.6 tablespoons of sugar crammed into 13 ounces of liquid. And by the way, w-who anywhere opens a bottle (a 13.5oz one at that) and puts it back in fridge to enjoy that ’second serving’ later??

Last March I posted that I thought that once the fine folks at Garfield would see this site, a cease and desist order would be imminent. As it turns out, Davis has a great sense of humor, go check out the article for yourself.

Thanks Jim!!!

What’s could be even ‘cooler’ is that Dan Walsh could take this artwork and then have a book printed!!

A buddy of mine just sent me this article from, “The USAToday” based upon research from a Pew Survey.  What I find entertaining is, why anyone would find this surprising at all.  Let’s see, we’re born and bred to do as little as possible, complain as much as possible (or with great gusto as the southerners are  notorious for) and when in doubt, sue… sue, sue, sue.  Why?  Because Americans have this wonderful ability to shirk responsibility unless utterly and absolutely necessary, say, with feet held in a fire.. and even then, it’s only half of a concession.  Boy do we like to save our very large round face.

More Americans would rather live in a place with more McDonald’s than one with more Starbucks.

So, with this in mind, is it any wonder that when times get tough, we want to run off somewhere else, all-the-while saying “that place sucked” or what have you.   I concede Detroit..everywhere else, is well, according to this study and the Americans in it, sucks.

There you go Onion, run with that, “Pew: Almost half of Americans say their half of this country sucks“

If you are anything like me, I hate, HATE bank fees, ATM fees and every other possible charge only a lawyer with an accounting degree could imagine.  I do everything to avoid them.  There are times where even mere mortals have made silly mistakes and were charged on our bank accounts for it.  Most people, of course, will deny that they knew anything about being charged, or that a payment was late, or not going to be paid, or whatever (had a job in credit, believe me, i’ve heard a ton of stories.)  Lucky for some, no excuse needed.

If you have or have had a Bank of America account, you may have a little “economic stimulus” of $78.00 (max) coming your way.  It seems that BofA lawyers have made a settlement in a class-action lawsuit for administering fees improperly.

Read all about it here, a SmartMoney article.

and don’t be a procrastinator, you have until May 1st, 2009

Back at ya BoA!

Jane Brody’s Good Food Book – Jane Brody (1.50)

The Gluten-Free Gourmet, Living Well Without Wheat – Bette Hagman (1.75)

Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer (.50)

Tibet, A novel by Gil Ziff – Gil Ziff (.75)

Kitchen Companion – Williams-Sonoma (2.50)

I look forward to reading through these in the upcoming months.  Even though I already had two copies of “Into the Wild” I decided to pick up this copy because it was a crazy, 50 cents and I know others that would love this story and now I can share without hurting my, or their, pocketbook.  yay..