TODAY’S BLOG — Are we about to get macaroni-and-cheese on tap? … Coronavirus Insanity: Six-foot beer coolers, Chuck E. Cheese goes bankrupt, and more … A group is busted with a truckload of illegal fireworks, and three dead alligators …
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Story 1: Are We About to Get Macaroni-and-Cheese on Tap?
We don’t know if this is real or not. But if you introduce a groundbreaking concept like this, you almost have to follow through. There’s a rumor online that the food company Stouffer’s is working on a machine that serves macaroni-and-cheese on TAP.
A reporter in Cleveland tweeted about it, and a bunch of news stations picked it up. But then the tweet got pulled down. Some guy also tweeted out a rendering of what a mac-on-tap machine might look like. And Stouffer’s responded.
Their tweet said, “Would you look at that,” almost like they were just seeing it for the first time. Then he tweeted back and offered to beta test it for them. And they said, “We’ll keep you in mind.” What all that means, we don’t know. But if they do come out with mac-and-cheese on tap, it sounds like there’s a market.
Hot off the wire: @stouffers is developing an actual Mac & Cheese dispenser.
“Stouffer’s has created the first-ever “Mac on Tap,” a dispenser delivering the creamy, cheesy goodness of Stouffer’s Mac and Cheese straight from the tap,” company says. pic.twitter.com/Qly5Z8I9zQ
— Adam Barnhardt (@adambarnhardt) June 24, 2020
Story 2: Coronavirus Insanity: Six-Foot Beer Coolers, Chuck E. Cheese Goes Bankrupt, and More
Here’s a fresh round-up of coronavirus insanity . . .
- Thousands showed up to a packed beach in England this week on its hottest day of the year so far, and left a ton of trash behind. They apparently didn’t have access to bathrooms either. At least one person defecated in a fast food burger box and left it.
- Chuck E. Cheese filed for bankruptcy yesterday. It doesn’t mean they’re closing, but business has obviously been hit hard by the outbreak.
- Dos Equis is giving away six-foot-long beer coolers today that are supposed to promote social distancing. You have to buy some Dos Equis and submit a photo of the receipt for a chance at one. (The promo starts at 11:00 A.M. Eastern, and they only have a limited number.)
- A Silicon Valley investor and his business partner are accused of repackaging thousands of non-medical grade face masks, and trying to sell them to hospitals.
- A family in Texas threw a surprise birthday party late last month, and now 18 of them have tested positive for the virus.
- Over a million dead people were sent stimulus checks, totaling about $1.4 billion according to a new report.
- More adults are living with their parents or grandparents than any other time in U.S. history. 2.7 million moved back home in March and April, most of them college-aged.
- Pakistan now says the outbreak is partly to blame for the plane crash that killed 97 people there last month. It turns out the pilots got distracted and forgot to lower the landing gear while they were talking about the virus.
- One in seven people have worked from their bathroom since the crisis began, according to a new survey.
Story 3: A Group Is Busted with a Truckload of Illegal Fireworks, and Three Dead Alligators
When you’re trafficking illegal goods, you can’t always be picky about what you traffic . . .
Cops in Staten Island, New York arrested a group of ten people this week, after they were caught with a truckload of illegal fireworks they were planning to sell.
And along with the fireworks, they were also hauling three dead ALLIGATORS.
We assume they were planning to sell them, or turn them into belts. But we haven’t heard anything else about it.
Police tweeted out a photo of the fireworks, but not the gators. They did mention them in the tweet though, and specifically said they were NOT joking.
The people they arrested are facing charges for fireworks trafficking and “unlawfully transporting three alligator carcasses.”
@NYCSHERIFF apprehended & charged 10 individuals in Staten Island with multiple counts of unlawfully dealing with dangerous fireworks & unlawfully transporting 3 alligator carcasses. (We are not making that up: ECL §71-1929) pursuant to a fireworks trafficking investigation pic.twitter.com/9ynW6OVXbC
— NYC SHERIFF (@NYCSHERIFF) June 25, 2020
Fake News or Florida: Win Amigos!
Is the headline FAKE NEWS or something that really happened in the state of FLORIDA.
- A Clearwater Man was busted for DUI and claimed his cat was driving
- Two Orange County Men were arrested after making homemade bombs to scare a tenant out of their garage
- Police arrested a Big Coppitt Key Man for DUI after he chugged a can of beer during a police stop
- A Jacksonville Mom set an Umpire’s car on fire after he called her daughter out during a T-ball game
- A Miami Man who threw his feces at a judge during a burglary was acquitted for his crimes
Answers:
- FAKE NEWS
- FLORIDA
- FLORIDA
- FAKE NEWS
- FLORIDA
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The Moore Yooou Knoooow: Random Facts to Feed Your Brain!
- The full version of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is a feminist song about a woman who wants to go on a date to a baseball game, not a movie.
- When JFK was single in 1941, he dated a journalist named Inga Arvad . . . who was one of Hitler’s personal guests at the 1936 Olympics.
- “Led Zeppelin 4” is the fifth-best selling album in U.S. history, with 23 million copies sold . . . but it was never number one on the Billboard charts. It peaked at number two.
- The longest golf hole in the world is a 1,100-yard hole in South Korea. It’s a par seven . . . and if you managed to get a hole-in-one, that would be called a phoenix. If you did it in two shots, that would be called an ostrich.
- The U.S.A. Patriot Act is actually an acronym . . . and a REAL clunky and forced one at that. It stands for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act.”
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