Monday 12/26/22
Celebrate:
Boxing Day
National Candy Cane Day
National Thank You Note Day
National Whiners Day
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Grubhub just released their year-end report, and the top trending cuisine of the year was . . . Australian. They didn't list any particular restaurants, but on their app they DO consider Outback Steakhouse to be "Australian."
Australian cuisine was up 531% year-over-year. South African cuisine got the second biggest jump at 294%.
Overall, the most-ordered foods were basic. Burritos were #1, followed by cheeseburgers . . . cheese pizza . . . Pad Thai . . . chicken quesadillas . . . sushi, particularly California Rolls . . . fried chicken sandwiches . . . Caesar salads . . . Chicken Tikka Masala . . . and boneless wings.
The top breakfast order was a sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich . . . the number one dessert was tiramisu . . . and the top dipping sauce was ketchup, followed by ranch . . . buffalo sauce . . . honey mustard . . . and spicy mustard.
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You shouldn’t high-five children because they’re not our equals and they’ll probably start disobeying you if you do, according to a family psychologist.
Author and parenting expert John Rosemond said the high-five is a gesture of familiarity, to be exchanged only between equals.
“The child who is allowed to high-five an adult has tacit permission to talk to said adult as if they are peers. Do not wonder why, if you high-five your child, he often talks to you as if you are his equal,” he wrote.
His column concluded: “The more adults and children co-mingle as if they are equals, the more problematic become their relationships. Why should a child obey an adult who high-fives him? And make no mistake, the happiest kids are also the most obedient. The research says so, as does one’s commonsense.”
I don't think any of the comments were with him!
Psychotherapist and counselor Daniel Browne also disagrees with the theory that high-fiving kids is in any way problematic.
“I think actually a high-five can be a really encouraging thing,” he tells HuffPost UK. “If a child does something well or they behave well, then it’s like: ‘Here, have a high five, well done. I’m really happy with what you’ve done or how you’re behaving.’
“And actually that might encourage the child to continue behaving in an appropriate way.”
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Weird Flavor combination!!
KFC Korea is trying to cash in on the mint chocolate craze in the country by introducing a “mint chocolate dipping sauce”.
The company describes that it was created by combining the refreshing taste of dark and sweet chocolate and mint” as a dipping sauce for its chicken. But why is it a light blue?
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The biggest movies of the year were
1. Top Gun: maverick with $718.3 Million
2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever $419.7 Million
3. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness $411.3 Million
4. Jurassic World: Dominion $376 Million
5. Minions: The Rise of Gru $369.5 Million
6. The Batman
7. Thor: Love and Thunder
8. Spider-Man: No Way Home
9. Avatar: The Way of Water (and still adding)
10. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
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With the cold lately, if you are an early riser and have to drive, you have to deal with the frosted over windshield. There are three different hacks going viral two you might want to try, and one you probably shouldn't.
The one you SHOULDN'T try involves pouring boiling water into a plastic bag. You mix boiling water with cold water, so it's not TOO hot. Then put it in a plastic bag, and drag the bag across the outside of your windshield to melt the ice.
It works, but there's an obvious burn risk. And even if you do it right, it can cause tiny cracks in your windshield. So the next time it freezes, it might SHATTER.
The other two are ok...
1. Park your car so it's facing east. It gives you the most sun exposure as early as possible. So the ice should melt a little, or at least be easier to scrape off.
2. Try the sun visor hack. When you warm up your car and crank the defrost, pull both sun visors down. It traps the warm air down near your windshield and should make the ice melt faster.
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Some records are impressive, like running a mile in 3 minutes, 43 seconds. Or even fastest mile running backwards at 5 minutes, 54 seconds. But other records are just weird. And that's what this list is about . . .
The news site UPI.com put together a list of the weirdest world records broken in 2022. Here are the top ten in no particular order . . .
1. Most soda cans suctioned to a person's head. A bald guy in Wisconsin did ten at once. He claims he has a weird skin condition where his pores suck in oxygen.
2. Most eggs balanced on the back of your hand. A guy in Iraq did 18 eggs.
3. Fastest time to find and alphabetize all 26 letters in a can of Alphabet Soup. A guy in Oregon did it in just under 2 minutes and 9 seconds.
4. Fastest time to eat ten Carolina Reaper hot peppers. They're the hottest in the world. A guy from California did it in 33 seconds.
5. Farthest tightrope walk in four-inch high heels. A teenager in Vermont crushed the old record of 49 feet. She walked back and forth on a tightrope and never fell. She decided to stop at just under 640 feet.
6. Largest gathering of people with the same first and last name. 178 people named "Hirokazu Tanaka" got together in Japan back in October. The previous record was 164 "Martha Stewarts" in 2005.
7. Farthest distance to blow a pea with one breath. The guy in Idaho who's turned breaking records into a CAREER did it . . . just under 85 feet. His name is David Rush. It was the 250th world record he's broken.
8. Longest journey by pumpkin boat. A guy paddled a hollowed-out pumpkin 37.5 miles down the Missouri River. His daughter was maybe TOO proud of him at the finish line. She broke down in tears.
9. Fastest time to assemble Mr. Potato Head. You have to add feet, arms, and a face. A guy in Malaysia did it in 5.43 seconds.
10. Longest beard chain. Last month, a bunch of guys in Wyoming tied their beards together and hit 150 feet. The old record was 62 feet, 6 inches.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The person who invented and patented the clasp on bras was . . . Mark Twain.
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