Wednesday 6/30/21
Celebrate National Meteor Watch, Social Media, and Parchment Day.
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You can try to get your kids to eat more vegetables by drowning them in butter and salt. But a new study found that doesn't really work. Something else might though just bombard them with even more vegetables.
Researchers at Penn State tracked 67 kids between three and five years old for a month. And when kids got twice as many vegetables on their plate, they ended up eating 68% more veggies overall.
They say it's important to keep all the other portion sizes the same as normal. And what THOSE foods are is important too. If it's a favorite food like chicken nuggets, they might not eat as many vegetables. You have to make sure the vegetables taste pretty good compared to all the other stuff on their plate.
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Just in time for July 4th...Hot Dogs that fit on hamburger buns! "Our Round Dog is everything you love in a hot dog in the shape of a burger."
https://www.insider.com/butcher-selling-round-hot-dogs-shaped-like-hamburger-bologna-2021-6
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TMZ reports Ray MacDonnell -- one of the original cast members of "All My Children" -- has died.
According to the Westchester County Medical Examiner ... the veteran stage and TV actor died on June 9 while in hospice care at his home in Chappaqua, NY. The cause of death is unknown.
Ray's long run on TV started after having already established a distinguished career for himself in stage productions. He attended London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts as a Fulbright Scholar.
His TV career kicked off in 1953, and he would appear on programs like "Robert Montgomery Presents," "The Jack Benny Program," "Producers' Showcase" and "Armstrong Circle Theatre."
Then he landed his first soap role in 1961 as Phillip Capice on "The Edge of Night" -- and in 1970 he found his TV home at "All My Children," playing Joe Martin, a patriarch for one of the show's central families.
Talk about longevity ... Ray remained on 'AMC' until 2013, and he received a Daytime Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in 2004.
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Robert Golwitzer Jr. was arrested for making a false report of an explosive or incendiary device -- a class D felony, we're told -- after cops say he called the Mickey D's where he'd just picked up an order of nuggets and said he hoped the restaurant would blow up ... because they forgot his sauces.
Cops say Golwitzer also mentioned wanting to punch an employee because of the flub. McDonald's turned his number over to cops, and when they contacted Golwitzer he came down to the station, fessed up and got arrested.
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Facebook has become the fifth US firm to reach a $1 trillion market capitalization.
Who are the other four??? Answer tomorrow.