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Friday Follies: Who Says the Apocalypse Ain’t Here? Pop-Tarts World…

posted August 13, 2010 in The Chile Underground

On Tuesday the End of the World as We Know It made an appearance, and almost nobody noticed… The Location: Times Square, New York. (That ought to give you a clue, right there.) The Scene: The Grand Opening of the new, unique, and glamorous Pop (read full article)

Too Tired for Follies Today…

posted August 07, 2010 in The Chile Underground

I was really, really tired after the six-hour trek home yesterday evening. So tired I couldn’t even chew off the restraints this morning and reach the keyboard to type up a Follies edition. (I’m dictating this to Sonia the Red, the smart (read full article)

Friday Follies: Gifts for the Fun-Loving Foodie in Your Life

posted July 30, 2010 in The Chile Underground

Gag gifts are supposed to be fun. Okay, so maybe some of them also make you gag a bit. Loosen up! It’s all in good fun. (I almost said good, clean fun. Not always, as you’ll see.) Kotula’s advertises as “The Guys With the Goo (read full article)

Friday Follies: Making a Clean Breast of a Drinking Problem

posted July 24, 2010 in The Chile Underground

It’s amazing how the Internet can distract you these days. With my wife’s birthday only a couple weeks away, I began to search for the ideal gift. Before you know it, I’m looking at bar & wine tools. And what comes up on the fi (read full article)

Friday Follies: What’s the Strangest Thing You Ever Ate?

posted July 17, 2010 in The Chile Underground

I don’t know what the fascination is with strange food. There are so many wonderful dishes I haven’t had yet (and in some cases, are not likely to ever get around to trying) that I don’t go out of my way to eat Strange Stuff. The a (read full article)

The Great Cereal Caper: “What Were They Thinking?”

posted July 15, 2010 in The Chile Underground

I don’t normally rant about food-related business blunders here at the Underground. I see blunders daily, of course; anybody who’s not in a comatose state or living in a mountaintop monastery gets their nose rubbed in them, in fact. Cont (read full article)

The Great Cereal Caper: “What Were They Thinking?”

posted July 14, 2010 in The Chile Underground

I don’t normally rant about food-related business blunders here at the Underground. I see blunders daily, of course; anybody who’s not in a comatose state or living in a mountaintop monastery gets their nose rubbed in them, in fact. Cont (read full article)

Friday Follies: Sandwiches in Cans (And We’re Not Talking Beer)

posted July 09, 2010 in The Chile Underground

All my life I’ve known what the term “canned sandwich” means. Beer. In cans. I even invented a monetary unit, called the COB, that made use of that item: The Case of Beer. Standardized on Old Milwaukee. My whole college career, my (read full article)

The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, Part Deux: Let’s Get Ready to (Tummy) Rumble!

posted July 05, 2010 in The Chile Underground

The Nathan’s International July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest was anticlimactic this year. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut put down 54 hot dogs in ten minutes to claim clear first at competitive eating’s premier event. A far cry from th (read full article)

Friday Follies: Has Extreme Eating Hot Dog Turned Chicken?

posted July 02, 2010 in The Chile Underground

It’s the Fourth of July Weekend. You know what that means, yes? It’s Grilling Time! However, we’re going to step aside from all that today. Seems there’s something too big to ignore going on this weekend; bigger than a mere h (read full article)

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