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Published May 14, 2021 Courtesy of Kellogg
Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can t write about everything that we get pitched, so here are some leftovers pulled from our inboxes.
The Cheez-It celebration that takes the cake
As Kellogg s Cheez-It brand turn 100, a celebrity chef is giving it the cheesiest birthday cake possible literally.
Chicago restaurateur Stephanie Izard of Top Chef fame concocted the Cheez-Itennal Cake to help consumers nationwide celebrate 100 years of the orange square snack crackers. The cake, which will be sold in limited quantities on Goldbelly starting May 17, contains the equivalent of an entire box of Cheez-Its. The cake is made with Cheez-It flour, there’s Cheez-It shortbread crumble between each layer and there are chocolate-covered Cheez-Its on t
They’ll talk about change, about politics, about reform, about corruption, but they will never talk about war unless they mean something happening far away. Because to admit the existence of the war waged against us is to admit that we are combatants, and if we see that we are not fighting back, then we would have to admit that we have surrendered. That we have already been defeated. The Arctic Circle Collective
Hassan al Sabbah, a brilliant Iranian polymath and tactician, founded the Nizari Ismai’li state, a state that flourished from 1090 to 1256 AD in Iran and Syria. This small state relied on a cadre of fearless professional assassins to protect itself from conquests, and to protect co-religionists living elsewhere from massacres.
From Howard Zinn s People s History of the United States
Classic Archives: The Gulf of Tonkin con job and other covered up facts by mainstream media and historians
Hal Ashby s Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front.
From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country and failed. When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.
Another Book on the Cuban Missile Crisis
President Kennedy meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the Vienna Summit in June, 1961.
Quotes of the week:
“He just beat the hell out of me.” – John F. Kennedy after his summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna
“It was as if you were sitting in an iron barrel that was being beaten with a sledgehammer.” – Lt. Vadim Orlov, recalling the effect of “practice” depth charges to the B-59 Foxtrot submarine carrying a nuclear-armed torpedo
“Perhaps war has already started up above… We’ll hit them with everything we’ve got! We’ll die and drown… but we won’t disgrace the fleet.” – Captain Valentin Savitsky on board the B-59