Now we can add fish to our list of fake food. This slice of salmon was never near the ocean. Plant-based, it comes from an Israeli startup venture:

The Tooth Fairy’s budget is way up. Where are we going? To the cost of raising a child. The Cost of Raising a Child Tooth Fairy If the Tooth Fairy visited your house during 2022, she probably left close to $5.36. Up by 66 cents more than during 2021, $5.36 was an all time high. Also…

Last Tuesday, Grubhub offered us a free lunch. Even with tax, tip, and delivery fees excluded, still the promotion was a good deal. It did not quite work out that way. Grubhub’s Free Lunch On Tuesday, between 11 and 2, Grubhub paid for a $15 lunch. You just had to live in New…

With hungry steelworkers to feed, the owner of the Uniontown, Pennsylvania McDonald’s needed something better than (what he described as) a puny cheeseburger. His solution was a double-decker burger. The McDonald’s HQ executives said it was okay…only if he used no new ingredients. Still, he reputedly snuck in a sesame…

Today, we start with smaller as the word to remember. In 1991, the Women’s World Cup soccer team bus was smaller than the men’s, the women earned much less, and the rules required that they play with a smaller ball than the men. I suspect though that their uniforms were…

With temperatures touching 117 degrees F., India’s heatwave is breaking records. Canceling sports and schoolyard activities, schools in Jaipur could open only for three morning hours. At the same time, on the farm, crops shriveled, cows produced less milk, and farmhands could not work. Each year, India’s extreme heat reduces…

During 2021, the U.S. at 24.4% and China, 17.9%, contributed the largest slices of the global GDP. Moving down the list, next we have Japan (5.4%), Germany (4.5%), and then the U.K (3.3%):

Illinois’s Senator Everett Dirksen reputedly said, ” A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”

Our story starts with the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Aired from 1970 to 1977, the show chronicled the life of Mary Richards. Single, a TV news producer, age 30ish, she was the happy role model for the unmarried woman. Not quite explicitly, except for this video, she also was an…