Salivation Army

cheap mondays: the chick-fil-a edition.

Sorry I didn't hear about this yesterday, but mark your calendars for next week … and the week after … for free chicken sandwiches. Hellz yes.

Attention Chick-fil-A fans:

Milkshake Mondays at Chick-fil-A!
Every Monday in March (March 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29) from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., buy a milkshake
at the Universit ...

stan van gundy, sauce boss.

The Onion nails it again. Were it not for the intentionally clunky Photoshopping, I almost would have bought this story of how Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy hands out copies of barbecue cookbooks "to inspire them and provide insights during road trips." (What can I say, I'm not a sports fan.)

"Our guys need to have a singular mind-set. They need to understand ...

choose life. choose a job. choose fried banana pie.

Foodspotting is a website that lets you search for dishes, not restaurants, in a simple social-media interface. Foodspotters around the world post "sightings," which can be searched by city or by dish. Looking for pork belly? Find it in Brooklyn, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto or New South Wales, Australia. Salted caramel ice cream, ...

gaga: bad romance, worse cooking.

Lady Gaga's "Telephone" video (featuring Beyonce) is a fun-filled romp through the poison shop, with stops for honeypots and whitebread along the way.

Let's make a sandwich!

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the power of prayer.

I prayed and prayed. "Please, God," I cried to heaven. "Please make it stop. No more. No more of this, I beg you."

God, in the form of the New York City Department of Health, heard my entreaties and moved to make it so.

Today Orlando Business Journal reports that Orlando-based Darden Restaurants, owners of the Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and Seasons 52 restaurant chains, has unveiled plans to build eight new restaurants to LEED standards.

(LEED = green design like energy-saving appliances, low-fl ...

incredible, edible.

It's Monday, it's cold (well, sorta. But don't say that to any of your friends up north), and in about eight hours, you're going to be facing the eternal first-night-of-the-workweek dinner dilemma. I dunno about you, but hell no, I'm not going to come home and start slicing and chopping and stirring and dirtying four pans on a Monday night. Yet there's the voice in the back of my head reminding me that we ate out three times over the weekend, and the chilly, tired, drag-ass part that just wants to slouch on the sofa with a warm bowl of somethin ...

crop mobs.

What's the best way to break in your brand-new Red Wing boots AND make good use of your Brooklyn facial hair (i.e., to keep your face warm)?

Crop mob!

The latest trend among the (sub)urban agricurious is once-a-month volunteer farmwork, on small farms struggling to stay in business in the age of industrial food production. Our own calendar editor, Trevor Fraser, has spent weekend days working at small farms in Yalaha and other Central Florida towns; he has also, like many of the young people in I'm not sure how much of a blog post it is if I just point you to someone else's blog post. (If you feel cheated, just let me know … maybe I'll make up a gift bag for you! Maybe not! Who knows.)

Ennywez, so I ran across this post on
We have a winner! A resourceful reader was gracious enough to send me FOUR (4) images of the scary papier-mâché sculpture from After Hours. Yesterday's tasteless Nude Nite post has been updated, and the Helpful Reader may claim his prize* at Orlando Weekly offices** anytime after noon today.

* Prize consists of:

one more reason i'd have to call nude nite tasteless.

Although this totem of horror probably tastes just fine, shaped as it is out of "46 lbs of cake and 55 lbs of ganache." It was created/displayed/{shudder} eaten (maybe?) at Nude Nite, which the proud creator calls "Orlando's largest art event." Um. Yeah.

All respect for the technical achievement, I guess. This is probably too advan ...