Tuesday 10/5/21
Celebrate National Get Funky, Do Something Nice, Apple Betty, Eat Fruit at Work, and Rhode Island Day. One of the original thirteen colonies, and last to join the Union May 4, 1776. Despite being the smallest state, the Ocean State jams over 400 miles of coastline in its 1212 square miles.
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Did you survive the Facebook outage yesterday? This was a great article that explains what happened in simple terms!
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Alan Kalter, who served as the announcer and performed hilarious comic bits for David Letterman during his two-decade run on CBS’ Late Show, has died. He was 78.
Kalter died Monday at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut, his wife, Peggy, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The red-haired Kalter took over for the retired Bill Wendell as the Late Show announcer in September 1995 — about two years after Letterman moved from NBC to CBS — and remained through the host’s final program on May 20, 2015. On his first day on the job, Letterman tossed him into a pool.
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For many, candy corn represents the reason for the season. Most of the nine billion kernels, more than 35 million pounds, produced annually – according to past pronouncements by the National Confectioners Association – are eaten around Halloween.
Candy corn was first harvested in the late 19th century. Most histories have the Wunderle Candy Company of Philadelphia inventing the kernel-shaped sugary candy in the 1880s.
The Goelitz Confectionery Company in Cincinnati acquired the recipe and began making candy corn about 1898, according to National Geographic. The Goelitz Confectionery Company changed its name to the Jelly Belly Candy Co. in 2001.
Decades ago, candy corn was a year-round candy called "chicken feed," and aimed at agricultural and rural families, according to History.com.
Each piece of candy corn has 4 calories, according to Jelly Belly. But Brach's puts the caloric count at about 7, since 15 pieces add up to 110 calories on its packaging of Classic Candy Corn. That serving has 22 grams of sugar – experts recommend no more than 25 grams per day.
Those who despise candy corn can cherish that the candy earned the title of Worst Halloween Candy for the second consecutive year, ahead of circus peanuts, those orange peanut-shaped marshmallow spongy candies, according to CandyStore.com. Favorite Halloween candy? Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
How do you eat yours?
52% Eat the whole piece at once
31% Nibble the white end first
17% Start at the yellow end.
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You know when you go to a restaurant with an open kitchen and have to change clothes because they smell like grease? Well then don't go to Arby's.
They're selling hoodies and sweatpants that smell like smoked meat. (but I guess you can't wash them.) And they only come in burgundy.
Each article of clothing is hand-smoked by real pitmasters at Sadler's Smokehouse in Texas. Then they're immediately vacuum sealed to lock in the smokiness.
You can buy them at ArbysSmokedSweats.com if they are still in stock
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Feel like life is going by too fast? Try some hobbies with long periods of waiting like gardening, aquariums, woodworking, etc. These have been proven to slow down your perception of time. (someone let me know if this works....in a while.)
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New pandemic box office champion for a weekend opening.
Marvel’s “Black Widow” was the previous record-holder after snaring $80 million during its July debt.
“Venom: Let There Be Carnage” made $90.1Million and also outpaced the first “Venom” film, which garnered $80.3 million over the course of its opening weekend when it was released in 2018. It is also the second-highest October opening in cinematic history, just behind “Joker,” which generated $96.2 million in 2019.
2. The Addams Family 2 $18.0M
3. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $6.0M
4. The Many Saints of Newark $5.0M
5. Dear Evan Hansen $2.5M
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