10/19/26 - How Much For Bread?, What On Pizza?, and How Big A Pumpkin?

Monday 10/19/26

Celebrate:

Dress Like a Dork Day

Elevate Your Life Day

International Adjust Your Chair Day

International Gin and Tonic Day

LGBT Center Awareness Day

Multicultural Diversity Day

National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day

National Seafood Bisque Day

New Friends Day

Rainforest Day

World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day

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The Weekend Box Office

1. Street Fighter $31.0M

2. You Can See Everything $15.0M

3. Other Mommy $8.4M

4. Whalefall $8.0M

5. Sense and Sensibility $7.3M

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In the World Pumpkin Capital, Half Moon Bay, California, the Championships were held last week.

The winner gets $9 per pound!! This year it was $21,501 for the 2,389lb pumpkin.

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In Florida, a crane overturned onto a house. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said no one was injured.

The crane was being used to lift a crane that had already overturned onto the house.

(talk about a bad day)

"We’re relieved that no one was hurt. We’re cooperating with the property owner, authorities, and our insurance carrier," Cooper Crane, the company that owns the crane, said in a statement. "The incident is being reviewed, and we can’t comment on details while that process is underway.”

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Prices are out of control!! There's a bakery in New York City selling a loaf of rye bread, strangely at a bakery called Rye, that costs $60. 

But while many have criticized the price as exorbitant, a food critic who tried it says it tells a more complex story.

“Is the bread delicious? The answer is yes. 

Is the bread worth it? [That] I think is a much more complicated question,” said Elazar Sontag, a food critic for the Washington Post. That's up to the consumer.

Austrian baker Martin Auer opened Rye in Manhattan last month, making the titular loaf from water, imported rye flour and salt. The fourth ingredient, according to the bakery, is time: 24 hours for the dough to rest, ferment and develop, then 70 minutes in the oven. The loaf weighs about 1.5 kilograms, and is also sold in smaller portions.

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Just in time for Halloween, Tombstone Pizza proudly presents The Candy Corn Pizza.

This sweet-and-savory creation combines the zesty flavor of TOMBSTONE® Pepperoni Pizza with sprinkles (can you) of candy corn.

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Today is International Gin and Tonic Day. The drink’s history is tied to British colonial-era use of quinine-containing tonic water against malaria, with gin eventually added to make the bitter mixture more palatable

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