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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jul 26, 2019
July 26, 2019
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Food news: Fox News reports a couple of guys were fined for dead, eating raw squirrels at a vegan event in London, causing 'significant distress' to attendees.
29-year-old GATIS LAGZDINS and 22-year-old DEONISY KHLEBNIKOV, told the judge they attended the event in order to a raise awareness of the alleged dangers of a vegan diet. They were popped fines of roughly $250 and $500.
While we're on the subject, SIMON COWELL has gone on a diet, reportedly going vegan to drop a few pounds as he approaches his 60th birthday.
Sources say the Brit TV host used to weight 161 pounds, but has dropped more than 20 since cutting out dairy products and meat. Simon says he decided to make the change after a scare when he was hospitalized in 2017 due to low blood pressure.
It's coming: call it Mock Guac or Phony Guacamole --because of the bad growing season this year and increased global demand, avocado prices are on the rise, around 129 percent in supermarkets around the country.
Part of the problem is also tariffs on Mexican imports from the current administration, and USA Today has reported that a 25-pound box of Mexican avocados was going for a staggering $84.25, compared to $37 around the same time last year. So what does, say, a Mexican restaurant do when it comes to making guacamole? The website Chowhound reports they're making an imitation guacamole substituting tender Mexican squash --sometimes referred to as Mexican zucchini or calabacitas ("little pumpkins")-- for that avocado.
The grounding of Boeing's 737 Max aircraft is reportedly the reason Southwest Airlines will be leaving Newark Airport. The airport's fifth-busiest passenger airline company says it'll be moving it's whole Newark operation to LaGuardia. Southwest was supposed to take delivery of 44 of the planes this year --until Boeing stopped delivering the plane until it is deemed safe to fly again.
Going to Europe this summer? Maybe you ought to rethink it if you haven't bought tickets. It was 108 degrees in Paris yesterday --smashing the all-time record by a full four degrees.
Of course, French people are coping --Slate.com reports one cheese-maker in the capitol was sending customers home with ice, saying "Normally, we recommend taking cheese out of the fridge an hour before eating it. Today I think a half-hour will do."
And don't think England is that much better. In Cambridge, England, yesterday, it reached 100 degrees as well.
Not really a shocker when the Pew Research Center reported yesterday that newspaper circulation has reached its lowest point since 1940 in the past year. Of course, that's only for print circulation --there's no way to measure digital subscriptions accurately at this point.
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