Domino’s Pizza Tracker

Domino's Pizza Tracker (click for larger view)

Filing under the “learn something new everyday” category, I’ve found that not only can you order Domino’s pizza online, but you can “track it.”

The Pizza Tracker will keep you up to date with the status of your order as it passes through the order, preparation, baking, boxing, and delivery stages. Not only will you know know where the dough is, it’ll also tell you the name of the employee man-handling your order each step of the way, including the “delivery expert.” The application updates without the need to refresh so you can plug your laptop into your big screen LCD TV and give the whole family something utterly unproductive to do while you wait.

Now, if they could only stream video of the whole process taking place, it’d be just like being there! It’s a nice toy, but I’m okay with ordering pizza without the need to stalk it.

What do you think? Is this just a neat toy or the best thing to happen to world since sliced…. pizza….?

The Big Bell Box Meal [Taco Bell = Value]

[Note: I wrote up this draft MONTHS ago, but never finished. Now the Big Box Meal has been pulled from many menus and they don't offer the Bacon Club Chalupa with it, only some much cheaper, less filling standard menu item. So, yeah, it's a lot more of a rip-off now. But, for the sake of documentation - of a better time, one could say - here's my first impression of the ORIGINAL Taco Bell Big Bell Box Meal (as it first appear here on the West Coast USA).]

In traditional unboxing fashion, I present to you the unboxing of…

TACO BELL’s BIG BELL BOX MEAL!

I’ve been wanting to order this meal for some time after first seeing it on Taco Bell’s menu. Where I live, by the way, Taco Bell is a VERY popular fast food restaurant. I believe Taco Bell would have to be my second favorite place to eat, right behind In-N-Out, of course. The psudeo-Mexican food is also something good you can count on, but mostly, the prices are resonable while all the other fast food places have doubled theirs in the past 5 years making a meal price seem like the tab on a steak dinner look mild.

Anywho, the Big Bell Box Meal consists of a hard shell taco, bean burrito, Cinnamon Twists, the new Bacon Club Chaplupa and a large drink. The large drink, to remind you, is the standard drink size you’re given when you order any meal.

It’s not like the amount of food you get it amazing, and the box is nothing other than a gimmick (though, it is convenient!) the same food ordered individually VS. the price of one “Big Bell Box Meal” makes it worth it.

Calories? Who’s counting? I found one estimate at 1550 + drink.

Nuclear Survivors: Part II

From a reader in response to Nuclear Survivors: Part I.

To expound (pardon the punnage) upon Twinkies a bit more, you may want to post this enlightening news on your site. We shall never, ever again think the same of our Twinkie consumption. Ew.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17303919/site/newsweek/

Ingredients used are “also the glue on postage stamps and envelopes”, “a disinfectant and weedkiller”…

Hmmm…I’m definitely sticking to my Girl Scout Cookies.

Happy reading!

(That one’s been sitting in my email inbox for a year and half.)

Nuclear Survivors

I’ve discovered there are only two things that will survive a nuclear war: cockroaches and Twinkies.

Newsweek, March 5, 2007 issue – As Steve Ettlinger dropped down a Wyoming mine shaft, plummeting 1,600 feet in an open-mesh cage, he wondered how many other food writers had ever donned hard hats and emergency breathing equipment in pursuit of a story.

Source: Mmmm, Tasty Chemicals

(Yes, I stole this from my old blog. Get over it.)

Gas – Cash + Receipt = Less Hungry

Jack in the Box is giving you two free tacos on Thursday, June 26th, 2008 when you bring in any gas receipt.

The fine print says “2 Free Tacos with valid gas receipt.” Not much to say what’s valid, though. Does it have to be a receipt dated June 26? Dunno.

Go get a gallon and go get some free grub. (And yes, it’s “free grub” because you’d have to buy that gallon anyway. And no, I’m not about to discuss the “gas wasted” in driving to the nearest Jack in the Box! Yeesh.)

Free Food Tastes Best

Until May 15th, Carls Jr. is giving you a deal on a Western Bacon. Buy one, and get the drink and fries free.

(I know the coupon extends underneath the side bar… get over it.)

EDIT: Ok… I forgot IE doesn’t do layering well. I shrunk the image. Click for full size.

Official CJ page here.