Mars Wrigley broke a world record after they created an almost 5,000 pound Snickers bar for a Super Bowl commercial.
The largest "chocolate nut bar" ever is now 12 feet long, 24 inches high, 26 inches wide, and weighs 4,728 pounds.
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The Super Bowl ads are starting to trickle out. Cheetos is teasing a spot featuring MC HAMMER.
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the start of Prohibition. It lasted 13 years, from January 1920 until December 1933.
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Here's a clip from Ken Burns' "Prohibition" documentary that explains how much people were drinking in the years before prohibition kicked in.
Klondike is coming out with three donut-inspired Klondike Bars. Boston Cream, Triple Chocolate, and Frosted Strawberry.
And yes, they do have a hole in the center. The release date isn't until spring, but they're already showing up in some stores.
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A former 7-Eleven employee in Pittsburgh posted video of cockroaches crawling all over the coffee dispenser area.
There's even a random roach leg on top of a coffee pot. He contacted management and corporate several times while he was working there, but nothing was done about it.
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Conversation Hearts Are Back This Valentine's Day . . . But a Lot of Them Will Be Blank?
Last year, for the first time since 1901, conversation hearts were NOT on sale for Valentine's Day. It's because Necco, the company that made them, had gone out of business, and the new owners couldn't get production going in time.
The new owners are the Spangler Candy Company. So have they gotten their act together for this year?
The answer is . . . sort of.
Spangler says the Sweethearts conversation hearts WILL be back in stores this year, but with a few catches.
One, they say they didn't have the production capacity to make ENOUGH. So their plan is to stock the big chains, like CVS and Walgreens, but smaller and more regional chains could get limited supplies or none at all.
And two, they say the equipment that prints the words on the conversation hearts BROKE and they couldn't fix it completely . . . so your bag of hearts is going to have a lot of BLANKS, or just red splotches where the words would normally be.
They're hoping that by Valentine's Day 2021 they'll be ready to meet demand and print a message on every heart.
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A Restaurant Will Charge You a Fee If You Sit There for More Than 90 Minutes
When you go to a nice restaurant, sometimes you stretch out dinner so it takes a LONG time and you get an experience that's worth the money.
Well . . . one restaurant is DONE with you doing that.
The Laurel Court Restaurant and Bar at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco is testing out a new policy: Keep your meal to 90 minutes. And if you go over, you have to pay $30 per seat to stay.
They clearly want to turn the tables over quickly and make more money, but this is a place thatcharges$16 for a starter salad, so people are going to want to take their time eating.
The restaurant ran with this new policy for four days this week, while the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference was in town.
The manager of the restaurant says, quote, "Otherwise they linger and tie up the tables, turning the restaurant into a big meeting room and the servers and our other customers suffer . . . it's all about supply and demand."
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