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Betty White drinking game for SNL

In honor of the fact that an 88-year-old Golden Girl may very likely draw SNL's biggest audience since Tina Fey donned her Sara Palin wig, we've developed a drinking game and Betty Bingo card for the event.

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Restaurant Chains See Customers Returning - WSJ.com

Restaurants haven't been able to raise prices. Instead, they have developed new, lower-cost items or reduced costs by substituting lower-priced ingredients in their recipes.

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High-Alcohol Beer Coming to Stores in Calif., NYC

The beer being shipped to the U.S. market, called Tactical Nuclear Penguin, contains 32 percent alcohol by volume, more than six times what is found in typical domestic beers.

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Aperitifs, once only found in Europe, make their way to U.S.

Within the next few weeks, Cocchi Aperitivo Americano also will be available.

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Box your beer and save the planet!

So he developed Kegless, a workable solution to the boxed beer dilemma.

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A New North Beach Bar Will Evoke the Barbary Coast Era

There’s no greater confirmation that the age of the byzantine cocktail and its apron-clad ministers has mellowed than the fact that the long-awaited bar from the mix maestros Jeff Hollinger and Jonny (Flash) Raglin will de-emphasize cocktails.

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Inside the Bizarre World of Reality TV Nightclub Appearances - Nightlife - Gawker

On Friday and Saturday nights, New York's bridges and tunnels crawl with over-perfumed people hoping to become part of the illustrious social scene they see on the teevee. What they get instead is a few minutes standing near a wildly overpaid minor celebrity. If they're lucky.

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An End to Wine Direct Shipping? | Wine Spectator

Wholesalers and states convince Congress to consider new legislation to prevent direct-shipping lawsuits in a campaign to protect the three-tier system

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This Sweetener Is Far Worse Than High Fructose Corn Syrup

Such a high fructose content isn't typical of all agave products. "Depending on how the syrup is processed, it may or may not contain more fructose,"

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Rum and Hope- The Atlantic

Haiti’s famed Barbancourt rum factory has survived by taking self-sufficiency to an extreme.

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