Tag: Healthy living

Chicago certainly has a plethora of restaurants with Golden in their name. Which is always fun, because gold has nothing to do with the restaurant itself. * Gold silverware… goldenware? nope, standard stainless steel. * Gold coins for change? Nope,…

Whenever I see a concrete truck, I always imagine that it’s going somewhere on a mission to fulfill concrete needs. Someone hauling around fresh spinning concrete could never be going on a joy ride for lunch. Have you ever seen…

Has anyone ever received real popped edible popcorn as shipping protection in a mailing? Entrepeneur Magazine states this in their Shipping and Handling Essentials: Use shredded newspaper or actual (unbuttered!) popcorn instead of Styrofoam peanuts. Your customers will appreciate your…

Coca-Cola has a promotion where you could win a PSP handheld video game system, or the new PS2, or a PlayStation2 game. So being a sucker for soda giveaways, I bought a bottle (plus feeling a little sick, coke makes…

2∆í predicted for the high on Christmas Eve to be chicago’s 2nd coldest Christmas Eve ever. -11∆í in 1983 was the coldest. 5∆í in 1972 is the 2nd coldest. (from Tom Skilling) What do you think the high will actually…

I’m sitting here looking at a cup with cheese popcorn in it and wondering, if you stuck a bunch of cheese popcorn in a blender, can you make a drink? It might be a bit dry, maybe if you added…

A triple threat match. Which one do people prefer the most? I want to email Kit Kat and tell them to continue to make their delicious dark chocolate kit kats, but i need the statistical ammo to convince them. So,…

Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have…

This review is by the 14th Floor Soda Beverage Review Crew of Chicago Upon pouring the beverage out, we were quite surprised to see the color of the liquid was red. Quite appropriate for the holidays. However, someone screamed and…

Has anyone ever experienced this weird feeling of electric shocks in your brain? It rarely happens to me. I’m not talking about getting shivers over your body when something exciting happens. It’s literally like quick *przzzp* *przzzp* in my brain.…

Three years ago on September 28, 2001 the first spudart.org blog post was made using the old Blogger system. The post entitled “Long Live Long Tables” is one of my all-time favorite posts. It touches on the social aspects of…

When outside and looking at windows of tall buildings, you’d think that you would be able to see stuff occuring inside the building. But you rarely ever see see any activity. It seems fairly lifeless. But humans outside the building…

European towns have been built over and over. So-and-so country comes and takes over. They rebuild over part of the town. Such-and-such country comes hundreds years later and they rebuild over the part of the town. And so on. There…

Some simple observations about Red Bull… The tiny hole in the can makes it harder to chug. What’s up wid dat? Here is a comparison of a Coca-Cola can by a Red Bull can side-by-side. Hey now, let’s be fair—the…

I’ll paypal $5.00 to the first person that can tell me where I can legitimately purchase prune soda pop. Rules: The answer cannot be the recipe for prune soda. It cannot be some website that just merely mentions prude soda.…

Every time someone says, “Did you know that Chipotle is owned by McDonalds,” this offender owes $1.00 to the person that they told. This will be a nation-wide trend on par of the slugbug/punchbug and “pinch poke owe me a…

I like to push buttons. Elevator buttons are fun to push. Even more fun to push are BIG buttons. What are some buttons that are really large? * Soda pop machine buttons (those big ones) * Car horn * Those…

Every Friday at work, we have New Toy Friday. This Friday was three-foot long sticks of gum bought at the dollar store. The challenge was to see if one could fit an ENTIRE piece of yardstick gum into his/her mouth…

Ever get hungry while in front of your computer with no food? Now you can pig out on pizza right from your own keyboard! Here’s some ascii pizza emoticons for you to devour! o small pizza O medium pizza @…

I hereby challenge anyone to get a stepometer from McDonalds and see if you do more steps than me.

Today I bought a McDonalds Adult Happy Meal. It has a salad, Dasani water, a Stepometer with instructions, and “Step with It!” a walking program by Bob Greene, Oprah’s personal trainer. The instructions stated something rather humorous: “2. Make sure…

Immediately upon opening up the package of Mini Chips Ahoy they reminded me of Cookie Crisp cereal. It’s like they are just packaging the Cookie Crisp cereal in fun small cup-sized containers.

While standing in line at Walgreens to purchase six balance bars on sale, I muttered out loud, “oh crap.” The person next in line asked me, “What’s wrong?” It sounded so ridiculously silly when I responded with, “I meant to…

Considerations: Name, logo, fatness factor (on a scale of 5 being most fat) McDonalds: The irish name has nothing to do with their international status–well at least there are shamrock shakes. Their simple logo allowed them to be able to…

It’s rather funny that you pay more for the bottle than the prize itself.

After ordering a side salad at McDonalds today, I was surprised when the orderdude told me that they didn’t have any. All they put in those things are just the lettuce they use on the burgers. Why not just throw…

Spearing popcorn with a fork is rather difficult. After getting the first kernel on the fork, the rest just don’t go on leaving you with a big mess.

Hershey’s is now making York peppermint patties into chips called Swoops. And they make me *swoon.* They are soo good! So thin, so tasty. It’s the most delightful snack ever! The plain chocolate and reese’s also taste good, but there’s…

brainblow n. 1: When something blows your mind: “Oh my, you just gave me a brainblow.” brainblow v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brainblowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Brainblowing.] 1. To blow one’s mind. 2. To affect with great…

A few life lessons I learned while working at an ice cream shop in Chicago, the Beverly Yogurt Oasis, during college summers: Don’t ever put gummy bears into the ice cream; they get very cold and hard. Therefore, the hard…

With this illustration of a %%278-7859_IMG_400.jpg]dunkin donuts cup on a dunkin donuts cup, which was designed first… the cup or the logo? (inspired by maroon shirt wearin Dave)