WTF? Alien SoupBY day Sandra Martinez works at a New York law firm, but by night she throws off her conservative image and becomes “Sandra Claws” - an amateur female jello wrestler.
At a grungy live music bar on New York’s Lower East Side, she joins 11 other women to do battle - several for the first time [...]
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BEIJING, China (AP) — The long arms of the world’s tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday.
The dolphins got sick after nibbling on plastic from the edge of their pool at an aquarium in Liaoning province.
Attempts to use surgical [...]
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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose — and a coat of mustard and grilled onions.That’s the gist of a menu special being offered through December at fRedhots and Fries, a hot dog stand in Glenview — a reindeer hot dog dressed the way Alaskans like it, in a poppyseed bun the way [...]
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - The Heart Attack Grill - a theme restaurant whose specialties include the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries, cooked in pure lard - is making health-care professionals’ blood pressure rise, and not because of the menu.
It is because of the waitresses’ naughty nurse uniforms.
The waitresses wear skimpy, cleavage-baring outfits, high heels [...]
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FRESNO, Calif. - The scallions suspected in the E. coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell came from a Southern California grower, an official with the company that washed, chopped and packed them for the restaurant chain said Thursday.
Ready Pac Produce, the sole supplier of green onions to Taco Bell restaurants in the New York, New [...]
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Rock icon Elvis Presley’s favorite snack - fried peanut butter and banana sandwich - is to be immortalized in a new chocolate bar. Chocolate giant Hershey will release a limited edition of its Reese’s peanut butter cup range featuring a layer of peanut butter and a layer of banana cream next July to mark the [...]
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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, New Jersey (AP) — Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least three dozen people in three states.
The fast-food chain said preliminary testing by an independent lab found three samples of green onions, [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — A marketing campaign to promote milk by outfitting city bus shelters with cookie-scented cardboard strips has crumbled.
City officials ordered CBS Outdoor, the company that holds the advertising contract for its bus shelters, to remove the adhesive strips Tuesday, just one day after they were put up as part of a [...]
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Staff at an Irish riding school were forced to postpone festivities after Gus the camel chomped his way through 200 mince pies and several cans of Guinness intended for their Christmas party.
Gus, starring in the riding school’s Santa’s Magical Animal Kingdom show, helped himself to the feast while staff were getting changed [...]
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald’s Corp. is testing hamburgers made with Angus beef at six Los Angeles-area restaurants, trying out products that would go head-to-head with Burger King’s line of higher-end burgers.
Danya Proud, a spokeswoman for McDonald’s, said on Wednesday that customer response to the burgers has been positive so far, but added that [...]
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