Package disclaimer: “Not recommended for pregnant women, children, or persons sensitive to caffeine.” (This includes YOU, weird pregnant guy expecting your second kid in June!) Huh? This is just wrong: A candy bar aimed straight at the shaved heads of wacky, Jack-Ass-style twenty-somethi...

Certain candies catch my eye during the holidays that I normally avoid consuming throughout the regular year. Why? Well, by the time you gulp down whatever candy you just bought, chances are it has been sitting on a shelf for quite some time. I mean, I always see gas stations stocking limited editio...

Nestle has jumped on the caffeination bandwagon introducing their Limited Edition Butterfinger Buzz. I got a hold of the king size version (I don’t know if it comes in the regular size) via Nestle’s PR company who offered me some samples. I’ve been looking for them for about a mont...

I have to confess that before reading Jamie’s review of Chunky, I had only eaten one in my entire life. Why? Well, I think Stewie Griffin from Family Guy said it best: “Yeah, that’s what kids want in their candy. Fruit. Why don’t you put sunflower seeds in the Ding Dongs while yo...

A few weeks ago Lean Cuisine recalled some dinners because they contained random shards of plastic. Now, a reader of the Times Union says she found a plastic screw in her unrecalled Lean Cuisine dinner. She contacted Nestle, the company that makes Lean Cuisine, and they offered her some coupons for ...

Visceral fat puts them at greater risk of health problems Older adults who are depressed are twice as likely to gain visceral fat, or fat around their organs, than people of the same age who aren’t depressed, a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry reports. People in their 70s were involved ...

Spoiler Alert Back in the good old days of the Cold War, everybody’s favorite secret agent, James Bond, fought villains like Dr. No, an evil scientist out to sabotage U.S. missile tests, and Mr. Big, a Soviet agent using pirate treasure to finance espionage in America. But as Bond’s friend Mathi...

By Juleyka Lantigua The other day I was in Hackensack, NJ, at a local Latino supermarket with my sister, picking up some stuff for dinner. I decided to browse the aisles for some traditional Dominican treats. You know, things like the salted crackers that come in slender clear packs, or the guava pa...

QOTD (okay, well, yesterday whatever): "It is better to starve fighting than it is to die simply by starving." --Nestle workers' union president (Whose name I now, regretfully, forget, but may look up later to edit this.) Riot Police, Kim. Kim, Meet the Riot Police. So, yesterday (Monday) was intens...

So, I woke up at 11:30 today to my phone text-alert-doorbell going off with a text message from my aunt that read "we're outside in front of the metrobank." Remember yesterday when I said that I hadn't been invited to the family Sunday shindig? Well, by "hadn't been invited to," APPARENTLY what I re...