OK, all you bacon lovers . . .

. . . get a load of this! According to the Telegraph: When Chris O’Connor spotted a ‘For Sale’ announcement in his local paper 10 years ago, a food venture was his very first idea. . . . The ‘stuff’ O’Connor tinkered with in the kitchen quickly became Eat 17’s calling card. ‘Burgers have always… Continue reading OK, all you bacon lovers . . .

Boys and their ten thousand highly flammable toys

Courtesy of an embedded version at Never Yet Melted, here’s a Russian video clip of 10,000 sparklers being set off in what looks like a cooking pot. Watch it in full-screen mode for best results. That was pretty spectacular . . . but I can’t help wondering whether the cooking pot was still usable afterwards!… Continue reading Boys and their ten thousand highly flammable toys

Great customer service from two companies

As regular readers will know, when a vendor goes out of its way to render good service and put things right for its customers, I like to acknowledge that.  I encountered that this week with two companies:  Impact Guns and FedEx. I’d ordered some handgun magazines (the kind that hold ammo, not the printed variety!)… Continue reading Great customer service from two companies