On November 9th, 1959, the Secretary of Health informed the public that a small portion of the cranberry crop from the Pacific Northwest had recently tested positive for the herbicide, which caused abnormal growths in lab rats. He had a message for the consumer (that is, the “housewife”): if she couldn’t determine the origin of her berries, “to be on the safe side, she doesn’t buy.”
A $50 million dollar a year business collapsed overnight.
I KNOW! I can’t believe I didn’t figure it out myself. I saw someone posting it, and I’m now waiting for the “Meghan’s tender secret tribute to her unborn child” articles. These two love their secret messages, don’t they?
Personally, I think it’s rather childish and gross (because the spooning bananas post was oddly sexual) and unworthy of a royal engagement, but I bet these two were cackling when they came up with it. They are mentally 12 years old.
Chocolate is Meghan, who is black. Harry is the ginger. Bananas is shagging.
Put them all together and bake, and you get a “homemade bun fresh out of the oven,” i.e., A BABY.
It’s a Sussex Baby Sex cake. I bet they thought it was absolutely hilarious. No wonder they were laughing and joking all through that engagement.
I’m half appalled because this was, after all, a formal royal engagement where they were representing the queen, and half admiring because they got Rebecca English to EAT that thing. I bet they got a good laugh out of that.
The summer of 2010 was the hottest ever recorded in the city. By July, heat reflected from the pavement had scorched the leaves of street trees, creating a false, uncolorful fall. In gardens, blossoms dried and withered, and the weeds by highway entrances took on the appearance of twisted wire. As summer progressed, to add a further touch of the apocalyptic, bees returning at the end of the day to hives in Red Hook began to glow an incandescent red. Some local beekeepers found the sight of red bees flying in the sunset strangely beautiful. All of them had noticed that their honey was turning red, too.
Chupa Chups is a popular Spanish 🇪🇸 brand of lollipop and other confectionery sold in over 150 countries. The brand was founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, and is currently owned by the Italian-Dutch multinational corporation Perfetti Van Melle. The name comes from the Spanish verb chupar = “to suck”. Their logo was designed by Spanish artist Salvador Dalí. Celebrities like Madonna were hired to advertise the product.
In the 80s, owing to falling birth rates, an anti-smoking slogan “Smoke Chupa Chups” was tried to attract more adult consumers. The current anti-smoking slogan is “Stop smoking, start sucking”, with their packages parodying cigarette pack designs. Some packages parody the mandatory black and white warning labels of the European Union with the notice “Sucking does not kill.”
At an archaeological site in northeastern Jordan, researchers have discovered the charred remains of a flatbread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago. It is the oldest direct evidence of bread found to date, predating the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years. The findings suggest that bread production based on wild cereals may have encouraged hunter-gatherers to cultivate cereals, and thus contributed to the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic period.
A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen, University College London and University of Cambridge have analysed charred food remains from a 14,400-year-old Natufian hunter-gatherer site—a site known as Shubayqa 1 located in the Black Desert in northeastern Jordan. The results, which are published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the earliest empirical evidence for the production of bread:
“The presence of hundreds of charred food remains in the fireplaces from Shubayqa 1 is an exceptional find, and it has given us the chance to characterize 14,000-year-old food practices. Read more.
At a dinner party I attended recently, when one of the hosts—an artist friend, who can be a little loopy—announced, as we cleared our plates of lamb tagine, that she was going to whip up some ice cream for dessert, I was skeptical. Making ice cream typically involves not only a machine but more than a day of preparation: you have to pre-chill the machine’s cannister overnight in the freezer, prepare your base—often a custard that you’ve cooked on the stovetop and let cool in the fridge—and then allow the machine to churn and freeze it for twenty minutes or so before putting it in the freezer for several hours to let it fully solidify.
Thanks for sending this in! I can just imagine the Royal staff scrambling to find stands and vessels that would make this crap cake look like something decent.
I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that this is supposed to be a royal wedding cake. Oh, well, I guess it fits them to a “t.”
Obviously there will be no traditional wedding cake at any of their christenings.
At Primal Palette, we think most things are okay in moderation, but the sugar industry is designed to promote excessive consumption. Understanding that can help us make better choices.
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