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LegalAction , in TIL that the words "lesbian" and "sapphic" both come from this legendary woman named Sappho who lived on the island of Lesbos

She’s not legendary, the way Achilles is. She was a real person.

LegalAction , in TIL: In 2002, Kenya formally donated 14 cows to the US as a way to show compassion to them after the 9/11 tragedy.

“Them”? The cows? Kenya knows we eat them, right?

HakFoo , in TIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps.

I wish they’d just put the soap and shampoo in fixed dispenser units like in the hand soap in a public bathroom. No stupid little bottle of shampoo where there’s more plastic than shampoo.

Muddobbers ,

I’ve been in a few hotels this year and every one of them has done this. They put them in locked in containers that you can’t really contaminate.

Usernameblankface ,
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Yeah. This is a nice idea to deal with the problem, but why are they perpetuating the problem? Why continue to use bar soaps that constantly need to be collected? Do customers throw a fit if they have liquid soap?

Seytoux , in TIL A man was awarded $7 million in damages after he developed a lung condition from eating two bags of popcorn every day and inhaling the steam from the bag

Kramer…?

TheOminousBulge , in TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”
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I bought one of these pizzas. I wanted to try some place I hadn't before. It might as well have been "pizza" from a poorly funded school lunch. It was bad enough that I got curious about "CEC Entertainment" that was on the fine print of the box. Motherfuckers got me...

Toto , in TIL of anchorites, medieval Christian ascetics who were walled into a cell ("anchorhold") attached to a church for their entire adult lives. Through small windows, they received sustenance, dispose...

Replace the church with the moms and these are modern day gamers

Darc ,

😂

Alteon , in TIL Two of Kurt Cobain's closest friends, Mark Lanegan and Dylan Carlson credit Courtney Love with saving their lives in the years after his death. She felt he would want them to be saved and decid...

Damn, I had no idea. Still sucks. Dude was a legend.

I just don’t get why prolific, rich people tend to off themselves. Is it because they feel that they already have everything and there’s nothing else to live for? Or is it that they feel isolated, and that everyone wants them for the wrong reasons?

blazera , in TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”
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Pasqually is in the lore of Charles Entertainment Cheese

Bender_B_Rodriguez , in TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”

Man when my nephews were young we’d go to Mr. Charles Cheese. Their pizza is absolutely ridiculously good for what it is.

conditional_soup , in TIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps.

This is why I always take the hotel soap with me

IrrationalNumber , in TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”
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There’s a great video on the concept of ghost kitchens that I highly recommend

PineapplePartisan , in TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”
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I’m sort of boggled by this. Do people just open the delivery app and type “pizza” and not care where it comes from?

themeltingclock ,

There’s a certain subset of consumers for whom price is the most important deciding factor in where and what to buy. No surprise - an assembly line shoveling Sysco is priced pretty competitively.

DoorDash, Uber Eats and all their ilk are awf for other reasons anyways. If you want pizza, call the pizza place directly.

TheGoldenGod ,
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Pretty much, yeah. Or are thinking, “I’ll give a new business a try today.”

Gingerlegs ,

This is how fucking Applebees got me, thought it was a new wing place. Never againnnnn

TheGoldenGod ,
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If it makes you feel any better, I’m sure they got a lot of people.

christopherius ,
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Never ate there. Are they that bad?

digitalgadget ,

I ate there once some 15 years ago for a friend's birthday. Ordered some kind of beef entree and it was rubbery and unseasoned. Like eating a piece of weatherstripping. Never again.

EnglishMobster , (edited )
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In the pandemic, I wanted to support struggling mom-and-pop restaurants instead of big conglomerates. So I went out of my way to order from places with names I didn't recognize, both to try them out (you never know if "Alberto's Tacos" has the best taco you've ever had in your life) and to make sure that tiny places could stay afloat.

I still remember the first time this came to bite us in the ass. We ordered from this cute little shop called Thrilled Cheese. They had cute little sandwiches... that both looked and tasted horrible. I was wondering how on earth they had stayed in business with food like that and so I looked up their address from the app.

It was an IHOP. Specifically, an IHOP that we purposely avoid because it's a terrible IHOP that got a "B" from the health inspector and once gave us food poisoning.

Now we have to triple-check that the little family-owned place is really a little family-owned place. Too often it turns out that it's an Applebee's or an IHOP or a Denny's or something. (We did discover some great local restaurants though. Shout-out to "I Heart Pancakes" in Santa Ana, CA - best pancake place ever.)

HipHoboHarold , (edited )
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Yup. This was it for me. Ordered a burger from a no name local place. It came in a Red Robin bag and container. Apperantly they gave no fucks. Since then if I found a place, and it turned out to be real, I just marked it with the heart. Anything not marked it either a big name chain restaurant, or it's suspect. Especially since we also know about ghost kitchens where it's one place posted under at least 10 different restaurants.

Edit: Just for shits and giggles, I just loaded up the app. First place I didn't recognize I checked and Google shows it in the middle of an industrial complex. No restaurant signs anywhere to show where it's at.

Then I saw "the burger den", which another person said is Dennys. Google maps takes it to Dennys

digitalgadget ,

Red Robin used to be a great regional burger place but it has just been destroyed. We used to go a few times a month but I haven't been for at least 5 years.

ninbreaker ,

They've resorted to 4 ghost kitchens smh, Chicken Sammy's, The Wings Dept., Donatos, and Fresh Zone

godzillabacter ,

Donatos is an actual, stand-alone pizza place.

boothin ,

At least doordash marks when places are virtual brands now, a lot less googling addresses for me lol

EnglishMobster ,
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Sometimes. It seems to be inconsistent.

Skyrmir ,

I mean, Chuckies pizza is slightly better than Domino’s pre-recipe change, and that went on for decades. It’s not like there’s a high bar for selling pizza. You can sell a stale cracker, with tomato sauce on it, for a long time before going bankrupt. If the crackers are cheap enough.

Also my bet is that it was just a way for them to keep some revenue flowing, keep people employed, and not have to shutter their entire business. I mean lets face it, their business model is spreading diseases while, entertaining children whose parents are ordering beer by the pitcher. Not exactly a winning model during a pandemic. They had to do something.

PopularUsername ,

There is a 0% chance of me ordering Chuckie Cheese pizza. There is a non-zero chance of me ordering pizza from a random restaurant. So in that regard, even with me they’d improve their odds, although still slim.

electronicoldman , in TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”

I mean I guess this particular instance of having multiple lines of business is new but the strategy is as old as the concept of business.

dudewitbow , in TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”

A lot of chains had ghost kitchens. Off the top of my head, Applebees had Neighborhood wings, and Cosmic wings. Boston Marlet had Rotisserie Roast.

someguy3 , in TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”

I think this is common now. Honestly not a bad idea for a company that was completely reliant on in person and not exactly top of mind for take out.

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