when you start the day
by adding the soup broth instead of the almond milk
into your morning coffee
you know that your spring break is truly over.
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‘the detail is as important as the essential is. when it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.”
-christian dior
Italy rejects Domino’s pizza, chain will close all its restaurants there.
American pizza chain Domino’s will soon exit the motherland of pizza.
No, not New Jersey or New York.
Italy.
Domino’s is leaving pizza’s birthplace because of the poor reception from locals. The Ann Arbor-based company recently announced plans to close the last of its 29 locations in Italy according to Bloomberg.
The popular U.S. pizza chain debuted in Italy in 2015 through a franchising agreement with ePizza SpA.
Domino’s originally planned to open 880 locations in the country, but competition from local pizza shops curbed those plans. According to Bloomberg, one way traditional Italian pizzerias combated Domino’s presence was by ramping up deliveries and signing deals with third-party delivery services during the pandemic.
“We attribute the issue to the significantly increased level of competition in the food delivery market with both organized chains and ‘mom & pop’ restaurants delivering food, to service and restaurants reopening post pandemic and consumers out and about with revenge spending,” ePizza SpA said in a report to investors.
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Quotes from locals in Italy:
“Who is Domino? Do you know him?
Here? In Rome?
So they wanted to take pizza to where it was invented?!”
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“No point in opening it,
American pizza for Italians? Doesn’t make sense. Maybe for tourists.
Like me going to England and making fish and chips.”
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“I submit to you…novantanove formaggio! The ninety-nine cheese pizza.”
–Michelangelo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
fyi – the term ‘pizza’ was first recorded in the 10th century in a latin manuscript from the southern italian town of gata in lazio, on the border of campania.
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credits: christopher burch, n.j. com, domino’s pizza, bloomberg
that moment when you realize that
you have been calling your neighbor ‘phil’ for three years
only to find out that his name is really ‘al.’
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“1 call everyone ‘darling’ because i can’t remember their names. “
-zsa zsa gabor
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image credit: twitter
i recently made halloween cards
for all of my grandies and nieces
and sent them out early
to make sure they arrived in time
imagine my surprise
when i opened my mailbox
and found a letter
that i had sent out
a day earlier
only to have the post office
deliver it back to me
instead of sending it on ahead
somehow they had managed
to process it on the back of the envelope
and decided that my return address sticker
was where it should be delivered
i often wonder about their logic
and am pleasantly surprised
when things actually get
to where i had intended them to go
i will try again tomorrow
and tell them that it should go
to where the mailing address is
on the front of the letter.
“you know you’re a fool when what you’re doing
makes even the post office seem efficient.”
-joshua cohen
for some reason
in anticipation of the upcoming solar eclipse
i decided that it would be a great time
to make 120 ‘solar eclipse’ cookies.
the plan was to give them to 3 different groups of people
who i would see this weekend
the recipe looked quite easy
and fitting in with the spirit of the big day
the idea was to add the sun yellow and moon chocolate icings
to the perfect moon shapes
increasing the dark moon coverage on each one
showing all of the phases of the eclipse
during the process
smoke and grease and sugar and cocoa and lemon
filled the kitchen
it took hours
the outcome was not quite as i expected
i’m not sure what exactly went wrong
but i am sure there were lots of things that did
the end result was best described by
steve carell while in character on ‘the office’ –
“it looks like it was put together by baby monkeys living on a farm.”
i’m going to embrace that and take it as a compliment
i know that the eclipse makes lots of things go a bit off kilter
and i can’t wait to see how excited everyone is
to receive this very special gift from me.
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“there’s a victory in letting go of your expectations.”
-mike white
at my daughter’s house
getting ready to take the boys to a movie
i opened the freezer and looked for
something healthy and quick to eat before leaving
i chose what appeared to be
some quinoa/whole oats/ancient grains kind of thing
took off the top and heated it up
when i took my first bite i soon realized
there had been a mistake
on my part
it had a taste and texture that really didn’t register
as anything i had ever eaten before
vaguely familiar, but not so much
far from an ancient grain
and it did not taste good
though perhaps was healthy
i looked back again at the top
this time really looking
and saw that it was lightly labeled ‘bee wax’
no doubt from their hives in the backyard
ah, that.
“and what, socrates, is the food of the soul?
surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
-plato
in response to last week’s award show finale –
the platteville library in wisconsin displayed their sharp sense of humor.
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“a doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
-frank lloyd wright
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credits: art bar, platteville public library
Man forgets glasses, buys winning lottery ticket
Fairfield, Conn. — A man in southwestern Connecticut who mistakenly bought the wrong lottery ticket is $30,000 wealthier.
Bob Sabo, of Easton, says he didn’t want to wait in line to buy a lottery ticket at the Super Stop & Shop in Fairfield, so he decided to buy a ticket from a lottery vending machine — something he had previously never done.
Sabo says he meant to buy two $20 tickets, but says *he didn’t have his glasses on and instead bought a $30 ticket. When he got home, he discovered the ticket was a winner.
*(and he is clearly my kindred spirit)
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credits: detroit news, associated press, ctlottery.org
I have my glasses on.... 