Thursday 10/20/22
Celebrate:
Community Media Day
Conflict Resolution Day
Get To Know Your Customers Day
International Chefs Day
International Credit Union Day
International ShakeOut Day
National Brandied Fruit Day
National Call-In Day for Health Reform
National Chicken and Waffles Day
National Day on Writing
National Get Smart About Credit Day
National Suspenders Day
National Youth Confidence Day
Office Chocolate Day
Spirit Day
The International Day of the Air Traffic Controller
Wear Purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Day
World Osteoporosis Day
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America's first gourmet restaurant for dogs just opened in San Francisco. The name of it is the French word for "mastiff" . . . it's called "Dogue".
It opened on September 25th and only serves dog food, but not normal dog food. The founder is a classically trained French chef.
He and his wife opened a doggy daycare in 2015 and started selling their clients homemade dog food he cooked up. So that's how the idea got started.
All of the restaurant's food is human-grade. During the week, it operates as a "PAWtisserie" that sells small-but-elaborate pastry treats for dogs that start at $5 each. They also sell "Dogguccinos".On Sundays, they do a three-course tasting menu for $75. It includes things like green-lipped mussels with wheatgrass . . . and raw filet mignon with fermented cabbage and a quail egg on top.
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Are you a Halloween candy LOYALIST? That's someone who always buys the same candy every year. According to Instacart, around one in four of us are.
23% of Americans are candy loyalists. Two-thirds of them have been buying the same candy for at least five years, and 40% for more than a decade. Here are a few more stats on our Halloween candy habits, according to Instacart . . .
1. The best-selling candy last October was Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Peanut Butter Pumpkins. The rest of the top ten are Peanut M&M's . . . regular M&M's . . . Snickers . . . Hershey bars . . . Twizzlers . . . Kit Kats . . . Twix . . . Starburst . . . and Milky Ways.
2. There's a major east-west divide when it comes to the top-selling candy in each state. In the eastern half of the U.S., it's Peanut Butter Cups. Out west, it's Peanut M&M's. The only outliers are Peanut Butter Cups in Wyoming . . . and regular M&M's in Hawaii and New Hampshire.
3. Chocolate candy is still the most popular. 84% of people who plan to buy candy will buy at least some chocolate this year.
4. 27% of people who give out candy base their buying on their own preferences more than what trick-or-treaters want. So if you love Charleston Chews you're buying them. Disappointing all those kids doesn't matter.
5. Our taste in candy changes. 63% of adults now love a type of candy they hated as a kid. Licorice and candy corn are the most common.
6. Twizzlers are more popular than Red Vines in 41 states. The nine states that like Red Vines more are all out west: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Hawaii, and Alaska.
Also, Smarties are more popular than SweeTarts . . . Milk Duds beat Whoppers . . . and it's a pretty even split between Blow Pops and Dum-Dums.
7. We're only at the start of candy-buying season. Instacart data shows it should start to ramp up this week, and won't peak until a day or two before Halloween. Same goes for costumes, pumpkins, and decorations.
8. Americans refuse to throw away leftover candy. 86% of people who end up with extra candy will keep eating it for up to six months.
A 65-year-old woman in Japan thought she was in a long-distance relationship with a guy from Russia. But he was pulling a very common scam. He said he wanted to marry her and start a life together, but needed money to move there.
Here's the twist though: He claimed he was a Russian COSMONAUT living on the SPACE STATION, and he needed money to get back to EARTH.
She fell for it and sent 4.4 million yen to his account . . . just over $30,000. He said most of it was to cover the, quote, "rocket costs."
She didn't wise up until he continued to ask for more money. That's when she finally realized he might be a scammer and called the cops.
They've been investigating, but it doesn't sound like she's gotten any of that money back.
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Ever get the feeling that there are a LOT of stupid people in the world? You're right. There are. And the world needs YOU to combat them.
A professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley, published an essay with five rules that we all need to survive in a stupid world. They are:
1. You're underestimating just how many stupid people there are out there.
2. Anyone can be stupid, regardless of their job, income, or education level.
3. The best definition of a stupid person is someone who causes another person or people to lose something without gaining anything themselves . . . and maybe even losing something themselves.
4. You're underestimating just how much damage stupid people are doing.
5. Stupid people are the most dangerous types of people.
So that's bleak. And there's really nothing we can do about all the stupid people.
What CAN you do? The best thing is to keep acting intelligently and making smart choices for you and the world . . . basically, to counteract all the stupidity.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Irish is only the third most spoken language in Ireland. English is number one, and Polish is number two.
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