Why do many restaurants offer a Chinese food lunch special at lower prices compared t...?

Order General Tso’s chicken at noon, and it costs $9. Return at 7 PM, and the price nearly doubles. But despite sharing the exact same name, you aren't actually getting the same meal. This steep…

Top stories for Long   Why do many restaurants offer a Chinese food lunch special at lower prices compared to dinner? MosaicPalate • Answered June 27 Order General Tso’s chicken at noon, and it costs $9. Return at 7 PM, and the price nearly doubles. But despite sharing the exact same name, you aren't actually getting the... Read more » 174 10   What would happen to someone who slept on the ground, in the Amazon rainforest, without a tent or mosquito nets? NovaPrism • Updated June 11 If you lie unprotected on the Amazon floor, you aren't sleeping on dirt—you're lying on a crawling, decomposing buffet. Before sunrise, you will become part of the food cha... Read more » 473 51   How can I remove plaque from my arteries naturally? Fionella Parsons, Senior Medic (2011-present) • Answered May 19 But honestly, your body didn't create this plaque in one day, and you won't get rid of it in one either. But reversing arterial plaque naturally is possible, and there's pl... Read more » 454 20   Do Wheel of Fortune contestants actually take the prizes they win? MetroDispatch • Answered May 19 You just won a $40,000 SUV on Wheel of Fortune. But instead of driving it home, you face a brutal choice: forfeit the car entirely, or go into debt paying the taxes. In the ... Read more » 272 36   If the screwball breaks in the opposite direction of a curveball, why isn't it more popular with pitchers looking for diverse breaking pitches? HalftimeLedger, Sports analysis and commentary • Answered April 26 Christy Mathewson rode the screwball to the Hall of Fame. Yet despite its devastating ability to break exactly opposite a curveball, the pitch has practically vanished from... Read more » 208 26   Why do professional chefs always seem to use an excessive amount of butter and oil? Surely there is a healthier way to make food that tastes excellent. Jonathan Trueman, Professional screen-and-copywriter, voice artist, Brit, knowledge addict. • Answered January 28, 2020 Oh, it gets worse. A friend of mine is married to a chef at a highly regarded hotel in Manchester. When she asked her husband why his food tasted better than hers from the ... Read more » 26.2K 783   Why do some retirees choose to avoid Florida despite its reputation as a retirement haven? Richard Smith, former Auditor • Answered June 2 As a Floridian refugee I can speak from direct experience. I retired in 2024, I was living on the gulf coast of Florida. My wife and I did the math and came to the conclusi... Read more » 685 213   Why is opening a sealed refrigerator after a flood a terrible idea, and what actually happens when you do? VitalSign, Answering your health questions • Updated June 11 Disaster responders have an unbreakable rule for flooded refrigerators: wrap them in duct tape and never look inside. Breaking the seal unleashes a pressurized blast of aer... Read more » 1.5K 92   Why do most people punch wrong? Ken Biddle, studied at Power Memorial Academy • Answered November 25, 2019 Because it’s instinctual to try to involve the arm and shoulder muscles when punching. But as every trained boxer knows, or unfortunately, should know, the arms and shoulde... Read more » 11K 444   When they sell a cruise ship for scrap, do they leave all the exercise equipment and all the furniture and all the dishes and all the restaurant equipment and all the life jackets and other equipment on board or do they auction it off first? OpenBlueprint • Updated June 10 Cruise lines don't auction off a doomed ship's grand pianos, commercial treadmills, or thousands of dishes. It's actually cheaper to leave them untouched and sell the fully... Read more » 2.6K 41   Does anyone actually believe that vandals cut a 350' slit in the bottom of the reflecting pool and pulled it loose? The very covering that Trump said couldn't be cut with a knife? Why does he have to lie about everything, no matter how trivial? Curtis W. Scissons, B.S Biology & Chemistry, Northeastern State University (1998) • Updated Wed What was applied to the pool was Rhino Linings Pipeliner 5000. It is a polyurethane coating mostly used for coating the inside of large pipes, or sealing older roofs, sparin... Read more » 8.5K 974   Why are so many people avoiding casual chains like Applebee’s now? Todd Beaubien, Plastic Process Engineer • Answered April 26, 2023 A few months ago my wife, son and his girlfriend went to an Applebee's. We were seated immediately by a pleasant hostess in an almost empty restaurant. We sat and watched 3... Read more » 3K 251 Read more in your feed

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