Mystery Diners: The show

  What is Mystery Diners????


Well it is a show, where I think it's a definite fake, where restaurant owners call this one man up name Charles Stiles.

    He, along with some other people go to the restaurant that needs help because the owner thinks someone in the restaurant is either stealing money from them, or they are tampering with the food... god knows what. And I just think they just want to be on the show and get all the glory.
   I don't know if the owners even have a problem with their restaurant. I just think they are getting the person who is causing the problems, fired for no apparent reason. They just want their restaurant and themselves to be on TV, so what do they do, they get Charles Stiles (who I think is going along with this charade) and asks for their help.

    Other times, I think it's just they need help so badly they call him and his mystery diner friends to source out the problem and fire the person doing it, and it always ends in "4 months later" the person fired either gets another job or is never seen again. I don't understand it. I like the show yes, but I know it's all smoke and mirrors. Charles Stiles is real, but everything else, you can see it's just fake. Fake, fake, fake!


   A lot of reality shows are like that: Hell's kitchen, Master Chef, mostly cooking shows that have turned into reality shows... even cooking shows themselves have been going in that direction. Showing fake food that they've cooked, saying "they have done it" I can see it is fake from a mile away. When they cut to commercial, a real chef places the finished product on the table for the 'faux chef' to say they did when commercial break is over.


   Mystery Diner is more like finding fakers, but seeing that the viewer ship is not high, I don't know what will happen next. All I know is it is enjoyable I will admit, but, I know it is not real. Neither is other "Reality" shows. *So many of them now* But it's best to leave the judging to yourself and say weather Reality is or is not an ugly word. BTW: The Kardashians are beyond fake and nowhere Reality! Till then. Ciao Bloggers, and enjoy your memorial day weekend.

what is really in chicken tenders, nuggets... even strips???

   Why am I blogging about this? Well people always wondered about what really is in a chicken tender or nugget. Even McNuggets "claim" they have white breast meat, but deep down... they really are processed crap.

   Other places would try to say their chicken tenders are better, even Perdue, or Tyson the big name bird companies. They have their version of chicken breast patties they call strips or tenders... and why all the different names for them anyway?

   Why are they always called strips or fingers (Chickens don't have fingers) or tenders? They don't tender the meat. The best thing to call them are strips of breast meat, cut into strips, breaded cooked (mostly fried) and served to the public. But that's what they say.

     Behind closed doors, nuggets, aren't always considered part of the breast meat. It could even the dark meat as well. I'm not a big fan of chicken nuggets. Never was, never will be. With chicken strips however, it varies. Sometimes it depends on the breading they use and if they are any good. I don't like the ones at chilli's. They really fried them to a crisp and are really, really greasy. Not a fan of that.

    Been to other places and tried chicken strips in other places. Applebees has OK chicken tenders (or whatever you want to call them) the fries however, aren't that good. The ones at Longhorn's steakhouse is OK too, but are so small and there are so many. TGI Friday's chicken tenders are OK too, not the best but not the worst.

  I don't think I'll ever find a great chicken strip meal like I would with Pizza, but don't think I want to either. Although the best pizza ever is not even in PA, it's all the way in North Carolina. But I'll blog about that another time.


Just be careful with purchasing or ordering chicken, strip wise or any other way. You'll never know if it's truly a real chicken or fake, but it's best to eat it anyway. We all need protein. Till then, Ciao bloggers.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!

     Today is a day where stop and take the to tell how much we love our mothers, god-mothers, grandmothers and how much our moms really mean to us.

      My mom is my rock, my heart and soul and I love her so much. She means the world to me, and everyone should know that their mothers have done so much for them that mother's day doesn't always have to be on a second Sunday of May. It could just be any day. 

       Mother's day is one day of the week where we can stop and take some time to say "I love you, Mom" and give her breakfast in bed, or take her out to dinner or give her a big hug and really show her how much you care. Dad's are there for the fun and Mom's are there for the love and caring.


   I know my godmother loves owls so I got her an owl to protect her garden as well as some flowers as well. Grandma got a card, and I can't reveal what got my mom.... but I'm always giving her love.

   But for people who lost their mothers, their mothers will always be there in spirit, in heart, and always as an angel.

    So today, be with your mom, and show her how much you love and care for her. Till then, Ciao Bloggers!! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

MRI's why I have to deal with them

  If you don't know what MRI stands for, it means Magnetic Resonance Imagining. Why do I wanna blog about this?

     I just came back from an MRI. I have to deal with having an IV in me all day long. I hate needles. I just try to hold my breath, count to ten and let them stick it in me. Praying that it will come out soon.


      I've been having trouble with my heart since I was born. Had to go through huge surgeries one after another. I was only a little girl when it happened but it feels as it just happened yesterday. My family has been sticking by my side ever since my huge Fontan Procedure that I had when I was very little. Sadly, had a stroke and now have a scar on the side of my brain since I can't remember much about that.

     First off I have to be in this huge tube, it's like being a cannoli, or something rolled up. It is so dark, you have to stare at this gray tube with a purple line through it. There are noises that are so loud that even the earplugs they give me don't even help. Mostly the noises are loud to quiet to "Bang, Bang, Bang" These sounds are really loud.

   Then someone tells me to breathe in, then out, then they want me to hold my breath. That will take a while and believe me, one to two hours later, it's over.



   Some people get MRI's but different one's. Mine is for my heart (of course), but some people do have MRI's for their heads, bones and other parts of the body, but I think the heart is the most hardest for for the MRI's. More equipment is used and the longer it is, depending on the heart's condition, and me having a three chambered heart, they have to see through all the pictures they take (and that's why I have to hold my breath) it seems me going though year after year just to see how my heart is and having to stay in one position, not moving for almost two hours as the doctors look at my heart and put something cold though my veins from the IV, knowing I just want to know if my heart will ever be healthy. All I know is, it is ok.

     Till then, Ciao bloggers!

Alergy Season High this year

   Mostly so many people have allergies around the Spring/Summer era. 
  My mom especially.



    I feel sorry for so many people that have to sneeze, deal with teary eyes drippy noses. Feeling as if they have a headache over
   and over
      and over
         and over every single day of spring. It's not fair. I'm minor but some people have to suffer through it for a long time. Their headaches are heavy. They get migraines to the maximum level and all would help is a little Claritin pill, just to make them feel better.

   For me, for the love of god, it is stuffing tissues everywhere. Why? Because my nose drips like a faucet day and night. Even though I don't get the migraines that go with the allergies, it's just the dripping nose of the faucet. Even though Spring isn't quite over, and the pollen allergies are getting worse, eventually the pollen allergies will soon cease and the migraine headaches will go away but then summer will come and we will be allergic to something else.
  Pollen allergies are not something to sneeze about (LOL) but we can avoid them by trying to be cautious about if we are really allergic to pollen or if it's something else that is spring related such as sometimes a dusty room, or sometimes migraines can be stopped by just eventually talking to your doctor, although he can't do anything for you, but pray for you to get better. They would give you a medicine or prescription for something to take away the migraines, the sneezing the headaches and everything that comes with the dreaded allergies. Till then, stay safe this spring and if you allergies, hope they go away faster than the road runner in a speeding race. Ciao Bloggers and enjoy the better side of spring.

What is with all the celebrity deaths??????

   Tragic? Yes. This year isn't even half over and yet we have buried mostly part of the celebrity world. Ed Koch, Roger Ebert, Mindy McCready (Who committed suicide by gunshot), Annette Funicello, Jonathan Winters..
   the list is gonna go on and on.



I know I'm nit picking about this but this is just.... remarkable in it's own way. Sadly we are going lose more by the end of the year. But we have to remember how they brought us entertainment, enjoyment and happiness in our lives through music, tv, movies anything they were in, we will remember them for. Sadly we just lost the final surviving juror in the classic "12 angry men" movie that I love so much. Yes Jack Klugman is dead. Although he died on Christmas Eve last year it's still sad. Bonnie Franklin also passed away. Who was she? She was in young and the restless.


    Even Margaret Thatcher just died and she became more famous when Meryl Streep portrayed her in a movie. The saddest thing is that she wasn't the only on that had a movie in memory of her. Many famous people depict of their lives in movies, such as Michael Jackson's "this is it" (sadly it was) and also there was presidential movies such as Lincoln or JFK that portrayed their lives and deaths in so much detail and it seemed we remember them more for their death than their life.

     But with these recent celebrity deaths, it's just sad to know there are more celebrities that are hurt and maybe some that using drugs to coat the pain away from all the glamor. But even if it was an illness of cancer, or suicide, or just an accident from a car crash, it's their life story we will remember them for the most of the time not their deaths. One of my favorite quotes is after all: Just because they're gone, doesn't mean they are forgotten. They will still be remembered for who they are

   Every year, someone (even a celebrity) dies, but then again.... A baby is born.
    Till then Ciao Bloggers! and PRAY FOR BOSTON!

Food Logo changing. Good or bad??

  First off, I've been noticing some changes in some logos on foods or ads of TV shows such as lifetime changing their TV logo, and SciFi channel just being called SyFy now. I don't understand that. 

   But recently, I have noticed some names for food products that have changed their logos to change with the times. Mostly fast food chains. Burger King, McDonalds even Taco Bell have changed their logos as well. Even the Pringles man had a few changes in his image as well as his logo. Wendy's has changed their logo as well, to make it very stylish but I never cared much for Wendy's let alone the food.  But sometimes it can be the logo or style of it that can capture the customer's eyes. Kids especially love food. Mostly because the color of the box or the character. The character, like Tony the Tiger or Ronald McDonald get a change or two as well by their voice, personality and what not.

  I on the other hand think sometimes, overdoing a logo change (weather it be for a TV channel such as  Comedy Central or Food Logo) can either be good or bad.

   Bad mostly because it might just be too much to handle and maybe changing a logo or a slogan too soon after the old one never had it chance, or wasn't worth the wait. It just seems that the logo changing or the slogan changing would make a different. But in my opinion, I have a feeling it is time to change the McDonalds slogan. "I'm lovin' it." is starting to get a little stale. It was ok in I guess mid 2003. But now, it's past it's time. I mean "Where's the beef" slogan from Wendy's knew when it was time to end it, and speaking of Wendy's their new commercials now suck. With that red head who can't act, I'm sorry she can't act, telling everyone to go to Wendy's because it's better for them??? God oh mighty.

  KFC has changed their logo as well as their slogan many times. Finger lickin' Good is still being used, but there are other slogans used and the logo has definitely had a makeover. The coronal is still gracing his face on the KFC logo but it went from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC where people will just grab a chicken sandwich and say how much money they saved by buying it.
    Other logo changes can be for stores as well as TV logos as well. Sometimes good or bad, change is going to happen one way or another, but the most change happens in the food sales. Weather it be with a bag of Lays potato chips or Taco Bell tacos, it's just change. Weather good or bad, we gotta accept it, but eventually, it'll change again by logo and by slogan and we'll either love it or hate it all over again. Till then, ciao bloggers.