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Find Out What Happens to Illegal Food After It’s Confiscated
I think I can see tears in her eyes she pulls out the Spanish salami. In Ellie Scaffa’s own words:
The grinder is great, sometimes I go home with a little bit of mango juice and passion juice on, it’s just having fun, the water’s splashing in your face… but this is what we have to do to protect American agriculture, it’s part of our job.

Merry Christmas!
Ho ho ho! Following this, Santa will be taking a regularly scheduled break until the New Year. Happy holidays all!

Starwood Ditches the Foreign Transaction Fee (and Other Updates)
The Starwood Preferred Guest American Express card is increasing its annual fee and adding four new benefits today in one fell swoop. The news is that the foreign transaction fee is permanently going.

Finally, There’s Free Booze on United Again
That is, for international flights. Yay, Prohibition is over (kinda).

How the British Airways Avios Changes Affect You
One of my favorite secret little “hacks” is using British Airways to redeem points for domestic fights via American Airlines.

Happy Thanksgiving!
There’s probably no more American holiday to us than Thanksgiving out of all the festivities throughout the year. (I personally refuse to believe it happens in October.) Here’s to turkey, pie and to the readers that keep this blog rockin.’ Thanks all and safe travels!

When Should You Book Upcoming Holiday Travel?
I actually covered this pretty recently, but Kayak recently sent me some hard data on why you should buy your holiday tickets now.

United (Sorta) Introduces an Annual Checked-Bag Subscription
Is it possible United has finally managed to do something right? Seriously, I’m still not happy about you guys jacking up your change fee.
