Have you ever eaten Shredded Wheat cereal? No, not those measly Frosted Mini-Wheats; Shredded Wheat laughs at your Frosted Mini-Wheats, and then eats them for breakfast. I’m talking “Original” Shredded Wheat! Biscuits so big you can’t fit ‘em in your mouth! A box of Shredded Wheat showed up in our house recently and, I’ll be [...]
Man, am I easily influenced by food commercials. I could be passed out on the couch after cramming myself full of Thanksgiving dinner; a McDonald’s commercial could come on advertising a special just-for-Thanksgiving Stuffed Turkey Cranberry Shake and you bet I’d be craving one instantly! (by the way, I’m a genius because that shake would [...]
Anjali told me it couldn’t be done. But I did it. Watch me eat an entire pint of ice cream in one sitting! And for my next trick, I’ll text you while I’m in the bathroom for the next 6 hours! (click above to see the enthralling flickr photo set). PS – future pint eating [...]
My Lunch Sandwich. If you join me at lunch, I will make you one too.
Sent to me today, Christmas day: Does Dairy Queen think I’m Jesus?
Whistleblowers stand up for what they know is right, even if speaking the truth could lead to threats and retaliation, and maybe even their own death. There is a long history of whistleblowers in the United States. Serpico taking on police corruption. Jeffrey Wigand taking on Big Tobacco. Sherron Watkins taking on the Smartest Guys [...]
You’re out with some friends at a restaurant. You walk to the bathroom and are faced with two doors, one for the men’s room and the other for the women’s. But instead of being clearly labeled as such, you see the following pictures on the doors: Door #1: Door #2: Which do you go in? [...]
Fellow Voters, I need a moment alone with Krispy Kreme, if you wouldn’t mind. Feel free to avert your eyes, step out of the room, whatever you need to do. Krispy Kreme and I need to have a conversation just the two of us. Krispy Kreme, I love you. You know I do. Which is [...]
We prepared the pickles. And they sat. But as I waited to open the jars I also planned. I knew that these pickles would taste glorious and I wanted to properly mark the occasion with an equally glorious “Pickle Opening Ceremony.” And just like the Olympic flame lighting tradition, our Opening Ceremony featured very special [...]
Claussen. Vlasic. The little pickle on the Heinz ketchup bottle. These are all famous pickles. But do they taste good? Eh. Until a few months ago, I’d been walking through my life one pickle at a time, occasionally tasting a good one but always knowing there had to be something better out there. “Too salty” [...]