Food

Never tell on anyone! I can’t tell you how many times my older siblings said that to me when I was growing up. And it turned out to be good advice because, as we all learned in school, if you get the reputation of a tattletale, you’re not gonna end up having many friends. Or...

The Internet is a vast resource for discovering new information, but these days it can be difficult to sort what is true from what is false. Misinformation can spread easily, even if unintentionally. It’s important to correct false claims when we see them, like users did in this Tumblr thread on the ethics of raising...

We don’t always learn everything we need to know to be a functional adult, while we’re in school. There are plenty of real-life skills that you only learn from, well, experiencing life! However, we can take advantage of the wisdom that is passed down to us, including that which can be found in these 12...

Is there anything more frustrating than having to throw out your perfectly good Tupperware because – even though you know it’s clean – it has those nasty spaghetti sauce stains on it? Personally, I’ve switched to Pyrex dishes, and that was one of the big reasons behind the move. Who wants to take your delicious leftovers and...

I’m going to be 100% real with you right now: I LOVE Chinese Food. Or rather, I love Chinese American food: sesame chicken, General Tso’s, egg rolls, crab rangoon—I’ll eat it all! But sometimes Chinese American food gets a bad rep. Some would call it “inauthentic” compared to the sort of meals you’d see people...

The whole “Sir, this is a Wendy’s” moment has become something of a meme these days. It can be applied to any clueless person, in any situation, whose expectations do not coincide with where they are currently standing in life. But for fast food employees, those moments are all too real – and they happen...

If you’ve ever worked at a fast food restaurant, or the equivalent of a fast food restaurant in another industry, then you know exactly what I’m talking about – those customers who ask you something and you just stare at them until you can make your mouth form the words, “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”...

You’ve never known true annoyance in life until you’ve had to deal with fruit flies swarming your basket of lovely summer fruit on the counter. You’ve never wanted to throw up in your kitchen until you’ve found fruit fly maggots on a bowl of cherry tomatoes you forgot existed. I hear. There are all sorts...