The coronavirus pandemic has given the global travel industry, particularly airlines, a real punch in the gut. Some of the recent controversies certain flight operators have run into probably don’t help either. To try and remedy the situation, airlines have started getting creative in trying to keep themselves afloat during hard times. For example, Qantas …
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I’ve seen enough B horror movies to be suspicious of giant vegetables. Everyone knows that size is just the first step to sentience. But I’m not going to hate on anyone filling the hours of lockdown this year however they see fit. A horticulture teacher from Minnesota spent his time nursing a pumpkin to a …
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As many parents are all too aware of, kids can be picky eaters. That’s particularly true when they’re younger and are just starting to explore all the culinary wonders of the world. Most children will get over their difficult food phase and learn to eat new things. Sometimes this process takes longer than usual, and …
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If you missed Where Your Favorite Foods Come From: Part One, click on the title to read it. And for the rest of your favorite foods? Read on. Pepperoni Pizza Well it’s from Italy, right? After all, it’s pizza. So, yes, and no. It turns out the pizza we have been shoveling into our mouths …
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It’s a fairly common more-or-less serious joke to question whether fast food counts as food. People have questioned the food-iness of the offerings of various restaurants, like the McDonald’s meal that looks exactly the same as it did 10 years ago. There have also been controversies about the stuff they use as additives in fast …
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A man from Illinois scooped up Richard Nixon’s sandwich 60 years ago, on September 22nd 1960, when the politician was visiting home to give a speech in Sullivan. And he still has the sandwich. Steve Jenne has been invited onto several tv shows like “The Tonight Show,” with Johnny Carson, because of the buffalo barbeque …
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Who doesn’t love Italian food? I know I do. Some of these Italian foods have much more of an Americanized background though, and to many Italians, aren’t even true Italian dishes. Here are the foods we love and accept as Italian, that Italians don’t even want to eat. Italian Dressing Yes, it’s a fake. It’s …
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We, the people, like to process history through anniversaries. For one reason or another, we tend to put special emphasis on how many years it’s been since something happened. Not that there’s anything wrong with the practice. When it comes to big anniversaries, 2020 has some good ones. For instance, this August marked the 75th …
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When most people think of museums, they think of places of art and culture. Museums are where you go to see famous paintings and sculptures, or maybe interesting trinkets from human history. But then there are more off-beat museums that also draw a crowd. For example, in Tallinn, Estonia, you can visit the Museum of …
Do you know where dumplings originate? What about cheeseburgers? Here are a bunch of your favorite foods and where they’re from, because, who doesn’t want to talk about food? Cheeseburgers No one can specifically agree which state the cheeseburger came from in the United States, but one thing we can agree on is that it …
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