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What’s your favorite Super Bowl Sunday snack? Americans are expected to devour 1.42 Billion chicken wings before, during and after the game, enough of them so that the battle for the Lombardi Trophy could be renamed Chicken Wing Sunday. Our love of chicken wings scores a touchdown every Super Bowl, and even during playoff season.
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Every year, OpenTable rates the best restaurants in the USA in different categories. The survey of best places to take kids has just been releases and includes a combination of fast casual chains and individual family-owned locations coast-to-coast. You’ll find something on this list for a delicious everyday meal or somewhere to celebrate a special
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The Sultan of Brunei has ordered the death by stoning to anybody who engages in LGBTQ gay sex or adultery. Since this tiny Arab kingdom owns hotels around the world, including in the USA, you might want to avoid them along with the restaurants by world-famous chefs inside them. The Sultan of Brunei owns The
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Ageless Adventurer: Although regular exercise and a balanced diet with healthy foods is the best way to stay healthy at any age, there are some tweaks you should be making as you age, including to your daily vitamin and mineral supplements. Here’s some healthy advice about what to eat in every decade of your life,
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Mother’s Day is this weekend, and as always, restaurants and other businesses are offering discounts and freebies to help you celebrate, and save money in the bargain. Most of these deals are only good on Sunday, May 13, 2018, but some last longer, so be sure you read the fine print. Here are the deals,
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Food for thought: Americans will eat 1.35 Billion chicken wings on Super Bowl Weekend 2018, enough to circle the Earth three times, and the favorite dipping sauce is ranch dressing. That’s according to The National Chicken Council annual Chicken Wing Report, and includes wings eaten in restaurants and at home. That figure is up 1.5%, or
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Get your next meal with a side order of delicious scenery. Restaurants with scenic views get top ratings from their customers, especially when the food and service is as great as the view. Every year, OpenTable lists the 100 most scenic restaurants in the USA. There are winners in nearly every US state, and nearly
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Pass the mustard! The spicy topping remains the favorite hot dog topping in the USA. Did we really need an annual survey by a fast food chain to tell us that? Apparently so. For the fourth straight year, mustard tops the topping list, according to the five-year-old weiner-centric chain JJ’s Red Hots, made famous on
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If you used a credit card or debit card to purchase anything recently at Chipotle Mexican Grill, you could be a victim of credit card fraud or identity theft. Chipotle is working with authorities to identify customers at risk. At issue is what Chipotle calls “malware” designed to steal information from customer credit cards and
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Our National Parks are a national treasure. Celebrate them all during National Parks Week, April 15 to 23, with FREE admission on the two weekends and enjoy some of more than 84 million acres of scenery and 27,000 historic structures, from the Statue of Liberty to Yellowstone. Public lands are facing a tough four years,
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