Chocolate to become a luxury
If we carry on the way that we are going, that is to say using up all of our natural resources, increasing emissions and grabbing land for the production of bio fuels, then other products that we take for granted will become rarer.
One such product according to the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Council (NCRC) is [...]
Good foods that nobody is eating
Its not that nobody wants to eat these foods, because of the healthy and nutritious in these foods the fact is they are an either not readily available or simply too expensive to buy on a regular basis making them very good for you at a price!
These are the foods:
Beets
Cabbage
Swiss chard
Cinnamon
Pomegranate juice
Dried plums
Pumpkin seeds
Sardines
Turmeric
Frozen blueberries
Canned [...]
Drinking games to play
Just going out to the pub, wine bars or clubs can get slightly monotonous after while, seeing the same old people getting steadily drunk every weekend, so even drinkers are need of some variation to their routines.
This is probably why there are many different drinking or alcohol related games around which will add a bit [...]
Banned foods available in UK
It is a serious matter food, especially as these days there is much talk about the amount of food that people are eating, but really it should be the types of food that we are eating. We consider ourselves a nation that knows what it wants, but to we really get what we want?
It seems [...]
Free Wi-Fi in Starbucks
But only the US for now it would seem. Regular visitors to the famous Starbucks coffee houses, will be able to surf the net free of charge in the Starbucks if the buy a Starbucks card, this is one of those cards which the user signs up for and charges up with money.
All the customer [...]
Investing in drink
Most people like a drink every now and then, even if it is just a tipple at Christmas, but sometimes there is the occasion to splash out, like weddings, winning the lottery and maybe even getting a pay rise. So if money were no object what type of bottle could you buy then?
Henri IV Dudognon [...]
Ireland to clean up sea of nets
Occasionally there are tales of boats of all sizes being caught up in rogue fishing nets, this can be an inconvenience to larger boats, but for small more fragile craft, this hazard can be seriously dangerous.
These rogue nets are called “Ghost Nets” and not only are they a danger to craft they are also a [...]
Living the island life
It is strange that being stranded on an island can be a total nightmare you only have to watch Lost or Robinson Crusoe to see why, but funnily enough it seems that holidaying on a tropical island is one of the most desirable holidays.
However as with many of these type of holidays the matter of [...]
Waitress sacked for giving away 16 cent treat
Theft from the workplace throws up many issues of trust etc, but when single mother working in a restaurant gave a crying child a bite sized doughnut valued a just 16 cents; you may think that this was not a case for being fired.
But it was and the woman from Ontario in Canada, was fired [...]
New drink takes the bacon
It could only happen in the States, they have created a new drink that is strictly for the meat eating population, but as drinks go it is probably not going to be advertised as that, otherwise they could be pushing themselves out a massive marketplace which is just plain bad for business.
However it is the [...]