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Planters Cheez Balls Make Their Return

written by Loren Petisce

I can see the orange cheese dust on my fingertips already!  Ok, not quite but it sure is exciting that after 12 years, Planters is bringing back their Cheez Balls to a shelf or online cart near you.  They’ll be available for a limited time starting July 1 at Walmart or Amazon.com, for just $2 a can!

Planters was initially going to sell their crunchy cheesy orange balls of goodness exclusively to walmart.com and amazon.com, but good news for everyone, they have decided to expand to other online retailers and brick and mortar stores in the near future.

It’s cheese-tastic!

 

28 June, 2018 0 comment
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Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Shultz To Retire, Will He Run For President?

written by Ruben Jay

Starbucks Executive Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer Howard Shultz is set to retire, the company announced today.

According to CNBC, Shultz announced his retirement in a memo to staff. His memo stated that his future is not yet decided.

“I’ll be thinking about a range of options for myself, from philanthropy to public service, but I’m a long way from knowing what the future holds.”

Shultz reportedly told his Board of Directors about his plan to retire last year when his transitioned out of his former role as Chief Executive Officer.

Shultz told the New York Times that he is concerned for the country.

“I want to be truthful with you without creating more speculative headlines,” Schultz told the Times. “For some time now, I have been deeply concerned about our country — the growing division at home and our standing in the world.”

Commentary: It sure does seem like Howard Shultz is looking to run for President. Over the next 12-16 months, we are bound to see Presidential bids become public. Shultz essentially has a year to begin the process of building his campaign.

4 June, 2018 0 comment
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LifestyleTech

Chipotle Introduces Pick-Up Windows At Select Locations

written by Loren Petisce

Need an easier way to get your Chipotle fix?  How about ordering on your phone and picking up at a pick-up window?  It’s a reality already at some Chipotle locations in Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Massachusetts and coming soon to a Chipotle near you in Virginia.

So here’s the deal, you can’t just pull up to the drive-thru window, order and pick up your food, like you would at say McDonald’s or Taco Bell.  Instead the pick-up window is designed to do just what it says, pick up the food you previously ordered online through the Chipotle app.  The way it’s set up now, (I can tell you from personal experience) is that you place your order online through the app, then when your order is ready, you walk into Chipotle and get it.  The addition of the pick-up/drive-thru window eliminates the need to go inside the store.  It doesn’t however, let you place your order in the drive-thru line, you have to place your order prior to getting in the line.

Pick-up windows are seeing an increase in popularity; Dunkin’ Donuts added it’s first pick-up line earlier this year. Starbucks also has a similar feature, but not a separate lane for orders through the app.  All orders are funneled through the same line, but it’s still nice to have already ordered and paid ahead of time and all you have to do is simply drive thru and pick it up!

The Daily Meal checked in with Chipotle’s chief digital and information officer Curt Garner, and he had this to say about the new pick-up windows, “One of the problems that companies have struggled with for a long time is having digital orders or any sort of out-of-store order come in and interrupt the flow on the main line that is servicing customers in person.  This drive-thru line will keep many of the chain’s digital-order customers out of the way of those ordering in-store, instead funneling them through a separate queue.”

31 May, 2018 0 comment
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Nikki Bella And John Cena Call It Quits

written by Loren Petisce

After 6 years together, WWE power couple Nikki Bella and John Cena have ended their relationship.

The couple, who got engaged last year at Wrestlemania 33, released a statement online to ET announcing that they were going their separate ways and calling off their wedding:

“After much contemplation and 6 years of being together Nikki Bella and John Cena announced today their decision to separate as a couple,” read a statement posted to Bella’s Instagram account. “While this decision was a difficult one, we continue to have a great deal of love and respect for one another. We ask that you respect our privacy during this time in our lives.”

John Cena opened up about his relationship with Bella to US Weekly magazine last month, which led to speculation of trouble in paradise…

“Relationships are hard. Don’t ever think that love is easy. Love is beautiful, but we’ve had to come to the realization after being together for five years that love is not easy,” Cena said. “We work every day on us. We have our problems just like everybody else. Some of our problems are very public, some of them aren’t. But we work every day on us. Anytime I get upset, I always just realize that I can’t live without her and I love her and that’s why I cave in on a lot of stuff.”

Best wishes to both John Cena and Nikki Bella during this difficult time.

 

 

15 April, 2018 0 comment
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The Best Candy For Easter: Top 5

written by Loren Petisce

When I was a kid, we’d have Easter dinner at my grandparent’s house every year.  My brother and I were the youngest of 5 grandkids and every year we’d all get the same thing for Easter from my grandma; one Reese’s peanut butter egg.  Just one.  That’s it.  We didn’t realize that most kids got showered with lavish baskets chock full of pretty pastel candy, toys and foil wrapped chocolate bunnies from family members and/or the Easter Bunny.  My parents made up for what my grandma was lacking, but even then we received a fairly modest Easter basket.  It was all we knew, so we appreciated it and never complained. Hey, at least my grandma chose one of the best Easter candies, it doesn’t get much better than a Reese’s peanut butter egg!  So when it comes to Easter candy, what do most kids hope to find in their baskets?  Here’s a list of the Top 5, see if your favorite makes the list!

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5.) Peeps.  I know, I know, most people hate Peeps, but you can’t argue the fact that they are the quintessential Easter candy, even if they are just brightly colored sugary marshmallows in the shapes of bunnies and chicks.  I’ll admit, I used to love Peeps.  I don’t know why, I can’t explain it, but I thought they were great.  However, I had one yesterday and I don’t know what happened, but wow they are not good!  Sure the squishy texture is kind of fun to eat, but holy sugar!  I couldn’t bring myself to even eat a whole one, it was way too sweet.  So love em or hate em, Peeps are here to stay for Easter and pretty much every other holiday as well.  By the way, if you do find Peeps in your Easter basket and aren’t a fan of them, try putting them in the microwave and watch them explode!  Fun for all ages! 

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4.) “Gummy treats”.  It’s odd that of all of the Easter candies to choose from a generic ‘gummy treat’ sneaks into the number 4 spot.  Perhaps if they are egg or bunny shaped they can get a pass…or if by ‘gummy treat’ they mean ‘Sour Patch Kids’, because those are always welcome in my Easter basket!

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3.) Pastel M&M’s.  Ok, so they are exactly the same as regular M&M’s, buuuuuut they are pastel, cause it’s spring and Easter and they have festive shells.  I’d say those are all good enough reasons to include them as part of everybody’s Easter winnings.

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2.) Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs.  Yes!  My grandma knew what was up!  These things are amazing, if you don’t include a Reese’s PB egg in your baskets, you’re doing Easter wrong (unless of course you’re dealing with someone who has a peanut allergy, no one wants an EpiPen in their Easter basket).

1.) Solid chocolate bunnies.  How disappointing is it when you take your first bite of that bunny ear and are met with a mouthful of disappointment when you learn the bunny is HOLLOW.  The worst!  Solid chocolate bunnies for the win!

 

Happy Easter!

 

31 March, 2018 0 comment
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Carnival Offers Free Cruise In Exchange for Snapchat Handle

written by Loren Petisce

How would you like a free cruise just for giving up your Snapchat username?  Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that, but it did happen for one Virginia teen.

15-year-old Darian Lipscomb is a self-proclaimed Carnival cruise ‘superfan’.  He created a Snapchat account back when he was 9, so he could share his Carnival cruise experience with his friends and naturally the Snapchat handle he chose was ‘CarnivalCruise’.  Carnival Cruises decided they’d like to get their hands on that username and they came up with a pretty good plan of action to do so!

They started out posting signs in Darian’s hometown of Prospect, VA, asking if anyone knew Darian.  Then, when it was time to make an offer to Lipscomb, they arrived at his home in a giant truck with his name plastered on the side of it!

“I answered the door, walked outside and saw my name on a big truck. I was really surprised,” Darian said.

The cruiseline offered he and his family a 14-day cruise to Barcelona in exchange for his Snapchat username.  They’ll be the first passengers to sail away on the brand new Carnival Horizon ship!  The 2-week luxury cruise will make stops in Spain, Portugal and Nova Scotia before docking in NYC, and the trip is estimated to be worth approximately $5,000.  Darian obviously accepted the once in a lifetime experience in exchange for his Snapchat name, adding that he’ll now have to think up another username; maybe he’ll choose another company name!

28 March, 2018 0 comment
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California Could Start Letting People Choose Their Own Driver’s License Photos

written by Loren Petisce

Could the days of having a hideous driver’s license photo soon be a thing of the past?  It’s a possibility for those who reside in California!

There’s currently a bill in The Golden State senate that will allow driver’s to pick their own license photo, for an additional fee of course.  Residents could either request multiple photos be taken at the time of license renewal, or they could bring in their own and request to use one of those instead.  However, there will be restrictions on said photos, so you’ll have to keep them PG.  But could it be worth it?  When you get an awful license photo, you’re stuck with that baby for quite a few years, so it sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me.  One downfall though, imagine how long the waits at the DMV will be once people start getting to pick their own photos?  Lord help us all, we’ll have to take 2 days out of work to renew our licenses, instead of just one!

 

 

12 March, 2018 0 comment
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How Changing The Clocks This Weekend May Affect You

written by Loren Petisce

You know spring in officially right around the corner when it’s time to change the clocks.  This weekend we move the clocks one hour ahead, therefore losing one hour of sleep Saturday night into Sunday morning.  A good way to remember which direction the clocks are changing is ‘spring ahead’, ‘fall back’.  Although nowadays, technology kind of has it all taken care of for us.  I know personally, the only clocks I ever end up changing are the ones on the dashboard of my car and on my stove.

So how does the time change affect us?  It’s only an hour, it doesn’t seem like a lot, so you’d think the affect isn’t too great, right?  Well, research shows otherwise…here are some examples of how we are affected the Monday after changing the clocks:

1.  One study found that the Monday after ‘spring forward’, there was an increase of heart attacks by 25%.

2.  There are more car accidents.  On average, car crashes increase by 8% in the days following the time change.

3.  Your stress levels might go up about 5%.  Research found people’s cortisol levels were elevated when the sunrise time was pushed back an hour.

So I guess if there were ever a time to sleep in, Monday morning would be it, if you can that is!

9 March, 2018 0 comment
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A Man In The UK Thinks Pizza Hut Is Using His Face On Their Pizza Box

written by Ruben Jay

Nick Richardson is a U.K. man who believes that Pizza Hut is using his face on their pizza box. Richardson complained to Pizza Hut and the company claims that their artists made the artwork independently and refuse to give our it’s inspiration. Here is a photo of Richardson and the box in question:

Richardson told  the Daily Mail, “Even the outline of the stubble is the same. It would be an enormous coincidence if it wasn’t me.”

5 March, 2018 0 comment
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Do You “Call In” Or “Call Out” Sick?

written by Loren Petisce

It’s been an awful year for the flu, worse than ever.  Everywhere you turn, someone is sick, whether it’s a family member, a friend, a co-worker or all of the above, the flu was and still is,  fierce this winter!  Most of the time if it’s just a cough or a minor cold, we suck it up and go to work.  But sometimes getting out of bed is next to impossible (those body aches are the worst), and heading into work is just not going to happen.  Plus if you’re sick, trust me, your co-workers don’t want you coming in and putting them at risk of getting sick too!  So what do you do?  When you let your boss know you won’t be coming in, do you call it “calling IN sick” or “calling OUT sick”?  I’ve heard both, I’ve said both, so which one is correct?

Well, according to a recent study, the majority of us, 84%, say we are ‘calling IN sick’, but 1 in 7 people say they are ‘calling OUT sick’.  By the way, the latter is most popular in Ohio and western Pennsylvania.  I always said ‘calling in’ myself, until I heard so many people say ‘calling out’, that I questioned if I was saying it wrong.  So just to be on the safe side, I now say both phrases, whichever one comes to mind first…though I do think ‘calling in’ sick makes more sense.  You are after all, putting the call in to let someone know that you will not be coming to work.  I can see how the other phrase works too though, because if you are at work and you happen to ask where someone is, what’s the response?  “Susie is OUT sick.”  You wouldn’t say “Susie is IN sick.”  I can see how either one works, so I guess it’s just a matter of preference.  Hey, as long as you let your employer know that you’re not working if you have the flu, I think you’re in the clear and your co-workers will thank you for not spreading your germs!

26 February, 2018 0 comment
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