Hundreds of ‘undead’ take part in annual zombie walk
Hundreds of ‘undead’ people gathered at the New Jersey shore to take part in an annual zombie walk. The event was staged last Saturday in Asbury Park and featured a variety of mutated characters, including four undead Disney princesses and gory nurses. A zombie Donald Trump pushed a tombstone with his name on it and threw paper towels into the crowd while asking, “Does anyone need savingIJ”
Walk organisers touted the event as one of the biggest gatherings of the undead on the planet. Most participants apply their own ghoulish makeup before arriving, but others get their look done on scene from professional makeup artists.
Security was beefed up for the event following the mass shooting in las Vegas, and organisers banned the use of prop weapons.
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Wales foodbank receives 46-year-old can of soup
A foodbank in Wales was shocked after receiving a nearly half-century-old can of soup as a donation. Cardiff foodbank last Thursday shared a photo of the decades-old can of Heinz kidney soup after spotting a sticker listing its price in the nation’s old form of currency.
“It’s a record!! Never had a donation with 10d on before!” the foodbank said. Heinz UK’s official Twitter account confirmed the can of soup was so old the company discontinued decades ago.
“Wow! That soup was discontinued over 35 years ago,” the company said.
Staff eventually determined the can of “ready to eat” soup was 46 years old and was part of a “hilarious” donation that also included a can of Green Giant sweetcorn dating back to the 1980s and a can of Del Monte carrots, WalesOnline reported.
“It would be great if anybody wants to give us lots of money for it,” the foodbank’s partnership and fundraising manager, Hellen Bull, said. “It should probably be in a museum.” Bull said the cans were donated as part of the harvest festival and the foodbank was unsure who dropped them off. “It’s out of a generous heart but I just think they don’t think and don’t necessarily look at the dates,” she said.
She added the foodbank would likely hold onto the cans to remind others to check the dates on their donations. “Please, could we remind everyone that food donated needs to be in date! Thank you,” the foodbank said.
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love is not a real ingredient in bakery’s granola, says FDA
A Massachusetts bakery’s granola may be made with love, but federal officials say it shouldn’t be listed as an ingredient on the package.
Nashoba Brook Bakery, in Concord, was taken to task by the US Food and Drug Administration for listing “love” as an ingredient on its Nashoba Granola label. In a letter posted last week on the FDA website, the agency said federal regulations require that ingredients “must be listed by their common or usual name”.
“love is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient,” the FDA wrote.
The agency said in a statement last Wednesday that listing “love” as an ingredient was just one of several violations, including a failure by the company to clean and sanitise its baking equipment and facility properly.
The information about the use of “love” was included but is not among the agency’s top concerns, the FDA said.
The bakery’s CEO, John Gates, told The Associated Press they will be “fully cooperative” with the FDA. He also said the bakery has a “cleaning contract of $100,000 per year,” along with a pest control contract.
Gates said the company has gotten a positive reaction from people since news of the letter began to circulate.
“It taps this feeling that a lot of Americans have that there are ways in which the Government can overreach, and it seems kind of silly,” Gates said. “Because it’s about the word love, it’s cathartic; it makes it something that people can smile at.”
Bakery co-owner and chief baker Stuart Witt said the company has been open nearly 20 years, and has been selling granola nearly that long. “love” has been listed on the label from the beginning, he said. “We feel very strongly that love is a big part of what we do,” he said, adding that much care is put into baking the company’s rustic, European-style sourdough bread.
“Because it’s such a long process, there’s so much room for error if you’re not really caring and putting a lot of love into it,” he said. “I always say, with our granola, you need to mix it, mix it thoroughly, and then when you’re done, mix it again, and mix it again.” Witt said it’s up to the Government to say whether “love” should come off the label. “We’re not very happy about it, but we’re going to do it.”
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man ‘time travelled’ to warn about aliens
Police say a central Wyoming man they arrested for public intoxication claimed he had travelled back in time to warn of an alien invasion. Casper police say the man claimed he was from the year 2048.
KTWO-AM in Casper reports that the man told police that he wanted to warn the people of Casper that aliens will arrive next year, and that they should leave as soon as possible. He asked to speak to the president of the town, about 270 km northwest of Cheyenne. The man told police he was only able to time travel because aliens filled his body with alcohol. He noted that he was supposed to be transported to 2018, not this year.
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