drinks
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Taste Testing Flamin’ Hot Mountain Dew, Which Is Like Mountain Dew But Orange
We live in a world built by capital, so of course Cheetos and Mountain Dew happen to be owned by the same conglomerate: PepsiCo. Both products have been part of the PepsiCo family since the 1960s, and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos have been a thing since 1990. So it’s slightly surprising that it took so long…
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Coffee Is Good for You, Coffee Is Bad for You
If you’re the sort of person who regularly scans the latest science-related headlines, you’ve probably come across the coffee shuffle at some point: Articles reporting on the latest study to show coffee may do something good for you, followed by articles reporting on studies showing that coffee is actually the devil’s brew. So what should…
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Twitter Launches Pro-Democracy Emoji for ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ in Asia
Twitter launched a new emoji early Thursday that will appear anytime a user tweets the hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance. The so-called Milk Tea Alliance refers to the pro-democracy movement in Asia that has been organised, at least in part, through actions online.
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2,000-Year-Old Food Just Came Out of a Pompeii Snack Bar
Before its demise at the explosive hands of Mt. Vesuvius, Pompeii was a bustling town with a strong agricultural economy and an appetite to match. Painted scenes and archaeological remains have long hinted at the diets of its doomed residents. On Saturday, the Pompeii Archaeological Park announced the excavation of one of the town’s thermopolium,…