For generations across the South, black-eyed peas have traditionally been served on New Year’s Day. The dish is associated with a “mystical and mythical power to bring good luck” in the year ahead, according to writer John Egerton in his book “Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History.” For years, Cracker Barrel served as a reliable … Read more
She wasn’t going to submit to this fly-way robbery. An incensed Ryanair passenger was so steamed over the budget carrier’s nearly $75 check-in fee that she canceled her entire vacation — and went out to dinner instead. “What they were charging was really unfair for the job that they had to do,” Hina Muneer, 29, … Read more
You and I should, by rights, know all about Queen Jane. She was the woman who, depending on which historian you ask and how close to lunch, was meant to be England’s first regnant Queen – that is, who ruled in her own right. Instead, nine days after the 17-year-old was forcibly pushed onto the … Read more
Leave no dog behind! A woman abandoned her 7-year-old French bulldog in a Pittsburgh airport parking lot Friday after being unable to bring it on a flight to her vacation destination, according to Allegheny County Police Department. The unidentified woman was set to board her flight at Pittsburgh International Airport when flight staff told her … Read more