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I love Burger King, I really do, but one thing that really gets my goat is the slight price difference between themselves and that of their competitors. When I want a lot of meat and cheese in a bun, then there's no better place, but if I'm paying almost twice…
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With most restaurant experiences, it's pretty standard fare when it comes to what to expect. You walk in, sit down, pick a meal and the waitstaff bring you what you ordered (hopefully). Then, you eat, pay - maybe even leave a tip? - then go about your day. Simple, right?…
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On the surface of it, eating healthily seems pretty simple, right? Cut out the junk food, gorge on greens and other veggies, drink plenty of water; but anybody who's tried to change their diet in order to lose weight can tell you that it's a lot easier said than done…
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Every now and again, you hear horror stories on the news, seemingly designed to make people freak about nationwide panics that are overblown at best, and completely made up at worse. Remember those rumours about rainbow parties, or about how there were people out there sneaking razorblades in children's candy…
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Food is great, isn't it? Keeps us all alive, I hear. When you cook it in your own kitchen, it's pretty great, giving you a sense of pride, but there's nothing like going out in your nicest clothes, paying a chef to make your dinner for you. Try it sometime…
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Even if we're not particularly driven, ambitious or even talented, I think that one thing we can all do with our lives to make them more successful is to try to leave the world a better place for our sons and daughters. That could mean taking the time to help…
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As my arrest and subsequent upcoming trial for identity theft shows, it's really not easy being Kate Beckinsale. Whether she's starring in the Pearl Harbor movies, standing around confused in the Underworld movies or taking on the impossible task of feigning attraction to Adam Sandler in the 2006 movie Click,…
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A 24-year-old man has admitted to stealing his dead neighbour’s bank card and going on a shopping spree with it, in the process keeping her passing secret for over two years. Robert Sharkey, from Grays Hill in Bangor, Wales, was accused of breaking into elderly neighbour Marie Conlon’s house all…
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If you're going out for a big meal, you know that diving right into your main course is a great way to signal to the rest of the table that you're a huge amateur a. The best way to eat a ton of food in one gloroious is to start…
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Xavier Cunningham was just your average boy from western Missouri, playing with his friends, when one Saturday afternoon, he took an unfortunate fall. Xavier was with his friends in a neighbour's house, when they tried to climb into a treehouse that happened to house a wasp's nest. One of those wasps…
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When you're a young restaurant business desperately trying to stay afloat, the word of a renowned critic can be the thing that makes or breaks your future in the culinary business. I've only watched the first 15 minutes of that Jon Favreau movie Chef, but public opinion can change in…
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I don't know about you guys, but I've tried a lot of things to get Ryan Gosling to show up at my place of employement, but nothing's ever worked. Tweeting at him, e-mailing his publicist, showing up uninvited at his house late at night, begging a judge to overturn a…
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While I have plenty of time for a burger, steak or even chicken nuggets, in my opinion, there's nothing like a good bit of ham to break the meat monotony. It's salty, delicious, and can be enjoyed with a variety of cheeses, sauces for a very sophisticated yet sloppy eating…
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As they say, all's fair in love and war, and when you're deep in the heat of battle, it's not unnatural to want to throw everything at your opponent, hoping to gain even the slightest advantage in your pursuit of victory. What I'm not trying to say, however, is that throwing hot…
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While I was a young college kid who probably could've been a bit smarter with his money, I spent a lot of time in Subway. There was one right at my student union, and even though I could probably make a sandwich on my own for a lot less money,…
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Kids these days may have Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and any and all email clients, but if you ask me, there's nothing that beats a good old handwritten letter. Eschewing all that technological mumbo jumbo, you've got the chance to take out a bit of physical paper, with your hand cramping…
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Last week, we had one of those corporate promotion snafus that we so love to talk about, and weirdly enough, they all seem to be coming from Russia. Fresh from telling their women to steal sperm from professional footballers at this year's World Cup for free Whoppers, Domino's in Russia…
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Although everybody has the right to eat out, there have been plenty of recent examples of people being refused service for reasons you could describe as "pretty justified". But these decisions are usually made case-to-case, and that's for good reason; if you're making blanket judgements about who you won't serve,…
