The Weekly Donut
The US makes over 10 billion donuts each year.
Get ready to indulge in all things food news...
Amazon was getting some heat for its cashless stores due to its inevitable discrimination against low-income Americans who may not have credit cards. Cities have been calling out Amazon for a few months now and it has paid off. The 10 cashless Amazon Go stores will be cashless no more. A spokesperson for Amazon said, “We are working to accept cash. Paying cash at Amazon Go will work as you would expect: you’ll check out, pay with cash, and then get your change.” Let’s go Amazon Go!
So, you’re telling me that I might die sooner if I don’t eat my fruits and veggies? Tell me something I don’t know *proceeds to eat a salad for all three meals today.* A new study reveals that vitamins and supplements are not enough to live a “healthy” life. Apparently 90% of Americans do not eat enough fruit and vegetables and like, that’s not that surprising.
Milky Way was our favorite candy until…
This week, astronomers captured the first ever image of a black hole…and it looks like a donut on fire! A black hole is described as, “a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it.” While the word donut can be used to describe the cake I ate for breakfast. Now that sounds a lot less scary!
Albert Einstein was the first to dream of a black hole in his theory of relativity.
Hanson Gregory was the first to invent a donut hole. How you ask? Gregory was steering a ship when he was eating a donut (with no hole in it…yet). To free up his hands to steer, he stabbed the donut on the pointy part of those old ship steering wheels (you know what I’m talking about). And just like that, the donut hole in the middle of a donut was created.
Talk about comfort food…
People are going crazy about snuggling up with this burrito blanket and this baguette body pillow.
Speaking of burritos, Taco Bell is giving away free burritos now until May 11th. Apparently, all you have to do is order online or thru Taco Bell’s app and you’re entitled to a free breakfast burrito. Talk about a morning fiesta…or siesta!
Pop(corn) Culture
Fighting over fish…I mean sharks. This week’s episode of RHONY, the ladies head to the Berkshires to stay at Dorinda’s Blue Stone Manor and LuAnne finds herself sleeping with the fishes. The Fish Room, which is one of seven bedrooms in the house, is adorned with hunter green walls, navy blue bedding, and taxidermized fish on the walls. Dorinda, who calls this room The Shark Room, claims that it costs a quarter of a million dollars with multiple $12,000 fish hanging on the wall. Raise your hand if you wouldn’t mind a trip to the Berkshires even if you had to stay in the fish/shark room!!
Wings are Coming! That’s right, Buffalo Wild Wings has introduced a new wing flavor inspired by Game of Thrones, just in time for the final season premier. Introducing…Dragon Fire Wings. These wings are tossed in a soy-ginger glaze that’s made with chili and ghost pepper topped with fresh jalapenos. These wings are so hot that maybe they should have named them John Snowings.
Not a Cook-Book of the month:
Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain.
“A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine.” Get it here.
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