What Does ‘winner Winner Chicken Dinner’ Mean?
The phrase "winner winner chicken dinner" originates from 1970s casinos that were trying to attract players to underplayed tables
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14 Chicken Dinners That Cost Less Than $2 to Make | SELF
Though it may seem like meat is always kind of expensive, you can totally cook a hearty, chicken dinner for just a couple of bucks. The protein source is available in many affordable forms at the supermarket—take canned, rotisserie, cold cut, whole, or frozen chicken, for example. Most of the time, these products will cost you around $5 a pop, often even less than that. That means that in most cases, you can use them to make meals that will cost less than $2 per serving—yes, really!
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Digging Into Detroit’s Corned Beef Egg Roll | Serious Eats
Much of that corned beef will be piled into nine-ounce stacks and set between two pieces of rye or buried in an onion roll. But the scraps and shavings that aren’t pretty enough for a sandwich find a different home—the corned beef egg roll, which is exactly what it sounds like: cured meat bundled up in an egg roll wrapper and deep-fried.
Folding what was once considered waste into those wrappers represents what Winkler calls "found money." But, five years after he wrapped his first egg rolls, shavings alone can’t meet the growing demand, and he’s stocking up on more 12-pound slabs of brisket to keep up.
Buying The Package (previously unreleased) – YouTube
"You're buying the package, you're buying the dream. You pay for the ads, on the television screen. They sell you a story, they sell you a mood. But what they don't deliver is food."
"Colors, preservatives, poison or not. Just so it sells, and is sure not to rot. Colorings, additives, nothing is real. No sensible maggot would call it a meal."
The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery
Perhaps it’s not surprising that some people steal from machines more readily than from human cashiers. “Anyone who pays for more than half of their stuff in self checkout is a total moron,” reads one of the more militant comments in a Reddit discussion on the subject. “There is NO MORAL ISSUE with stealing from a store that forces you to use self checkout, period. THEY ARE CHARGING YOU TO WORK AT THEIR STORE.” Barbara Staib, the director of communications of the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention, believes that self-checkouts tempt people who are already predisposed to shoplifting, by allowing them to rationalize their behavior. “Most shoplifters are in fact otherwise law-abiding citizens. They would chase behind you to return the $20 bill you dropped, because you’re a person and you would miss that $20.” A robot cashier, though, changes the equation: It “gives the false impression of anonymity,” Staib says. “This apparently empowers people to shoplift.”
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"That is totally the mantra," says Catherine Kling, an economist at Cornell University. "I'll bet I've been to 50 talks in the last five, 10 years where the beginning is, 'We have to feed 9 billion people by 2050. This is a crisis situation.' The word 'crisis' gets used regularly."
But, in fact, the long-term trend, for more than a century, has been toward ever more abundant food, and declining prices.
To be sure, every once in a while, it really does seem like a crisis. It certainly did in 2008. Tom Hertel, a economist at Purdue University, remembers it well. "This was right in the thick of the biofuel-driven madness," Hertel says, when government policies drove a surge in demand for corn to make ethanol. Rice and wheat prices were spiking for other reasons.