1. Today Is National Pasta Day, Here Are Five New Stats on Our Pasta Eating
Today is National Pasta Day, so hopefully you're carbo-loading for a marathon tomorrow. Marathons on random Wednesdays in October are totally a thing.
Anyway, a website called National Today ran a survey about our pasta eating habits in honor of the day.
And here's what they found:
1. 75% of us eat pasta at least once a week, and about 5% eat it DAILY.
2. Only 2.8% of us never eat pasta.
3. The most popular pasta dish is cavatappi with mussels and fish sauce. Just kidding. It's spaghetti, obviously.
4. And the most popular sauce is marinara, it got 52% of the vote. Alfredo sauce came in second, at 44%.
5. Thanks to that love of Alfredo sauce, two-thirds of people say they'd rather eat fettuccini Alfredo than mac and cheese. And nine out of ten people prefer lasagna to baked ziti.
2. A 115-pound competitive eater named Molly Schuyler
set a world record over the weekend by eating 48 pieces of pumpkin pie in 10 minutes.
3. Taco Bell is doing their promotion again this year
where you can get a free taco after the first stolen base in the World Series. If it happens in Game 1 or 2, it'll be on November 1st. If it happens after that, it's November 7th.
4. Dominos Will Soon Take Over the Title of Biggest Pizza Chain From Pizza Hut
5. The Hamburger Helper Hand Reveals What Its Skeleton
Looks Like Inside the Glove and It's Creepier Than You'd Think
You probably haven't thought about the Hamburger Helper mascot very much lately but somehow, you still know it off the top of your head: It's a glove with four fingers and a smiling face on the palm.
Well, someone tweeted a joke over the weekend asking for help figuring out what its SKELETON could possibly look like under there. And the official Hamburger Helper account tweeted a response yesterday that was surprisingly creepy.
They tweeted an "X-ray" look inside the glove, which shows a skeleton with FOUR ARMS controlling the four fingers. Now you know.