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xxgoblin-dumplingxx · 5 years

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In Tatters: Three

Steve and Bucky dressed with more care than they had for a while. They didn’t figure you for the type of girl that would care much, but they also figured that if they were gonna show a girl a nice time, they should probably look like they knew what they were doing.

Casual. Not like they want to put you on the nearest bed and fuck your brains out. Even though they did. Desperately. Not that they weren’t enough for each other. It wasn’t that. But there was a certain sweetness that came with having a girl in their bed. Someone they both protected.

It was an impulse that all the sensitivity training in the world couldn’t make them give up. The need to have a cute little dame to sleep between them at night. It felt better. More balanced. It was hard to explain to anyone but each other. Anyone but the right kind of girl. And they hoped you were exactly that kind of girl.

Steve carded his fingers through Bucky’s hair easily and smiled a little, “You need a haircut.”

“And you need to quit grooming me,” he pouted.

“Your ma would never forgive me, lettin’ you walk around looking shaggy,” he teased.

“Ma wasn’t gonna forgive you anyway after you got India ink on her best tablecloth,” he countered, mussing his hair again to his satisfaction.

Steve smiled a little and kissed his jaw, “You ready?”

“If you’ll quit groomin’ me long enough for us to get out the door,” he said, slipping his phone into his pocket.

“Just tryin’ to make sure you don’t scare the poor girl away.”

“Hey!” Bucky protested. But, there’s no real heat in it, and he lets Steve pull him out of the apartment.

As they walk down the street headed towards the address you had given them to pick you up at, nerves sang. They wanted to impress you. To be interesting to you. To make you love them. To convince you that they were worth the hassle.

“You ready?” Bucky asked, squeezing his hand.

“Yeah,” Steve answered, smiling at him, “This is gonna be fine.”

“She’s fine,” Bucky said, smirking, “Wonder how she cleans up?” He watched as Steve shook his head fondly and rang the bell, they didn’t have long to wait to find out.

You lope down the stairs, dressed casually, but still cute. Girl next door, sweet. With your hair tumbling down to the middle of your back and your face done up a little. A tank top and a long skirt. A pair of sandals and a cardigan slung over your arm.

They both feel their faces soften. They want you so badly they aren’t sure what to do when you bound out the door and hug them both hello. “Well, at the very least, I know you can be on time,” you tell them, teasing, “But what I still don’t get is why you’re interested in me.”

They smile, and Steve takes your jacket gently, offering you his arm as Bucky offers you his arm on the other side. “Because, doll,” Bucky said, smiling, “We think you’re pretty.”

“And we wanna know you,” Steve added, “Starting, we figured, with your favorite ice cream flavor.”

You laugh, “Well, I could definitely have no problem telling you that.”

You skip ahead of them slightly, “But you have to promise me something,” you tell them.

“What’s that?” Bucky asks, offering you a hand as you balance on a low wall so you can look them both in the face.

“This isn’t some weird unicorn hunting thing, is it?” you ask.

“Unicorn hunting?” They chorus, looking at each other and looking back at you.

You sigh, looking away for just a second, mentally assessing how much you can say, and they both feel a tiny jolt of pain. “Unicorn hunters is a term for a straight couple looking for a bi girl to spice up their relationship. And be exclusive to that couple without asking for anything in return, really. They don’t want another partner. They want a fuck toy... This isn’t some new version of that, is it?”

They both look appalled. Appalled on your behalf, really. The look on your face says this isn’t anecdotal. It happened, and it hurt.

“Girls who’d do that don’t exist, do they?” Steve said, hopping up to sit next to you on the wall.

“I mean. I did it, but... I wanted a relationship. So. It didn’t work out for them,” you tell them.

Bucky looks at Steve, not sure what to say but trusting his intuition to stay quiet and let Steve do it. Steve was always better with feelings.

“Sweetheart,” Steve said gently, “We’re not looking for just a toy. We want someone who can fit into our lives. A girl we can have to spoil and give us someone to come home to. We love each other. We always have. But we can love someone else, too, okay?”

You squeeze Bucky’s hand you’re holding and lean over to kiss Steve’s cheek gently. “Okay,” you answer, smiling a little, “That’s all I needed to know.”

“And that’s fair,” Bucky said, nodding, helping you off the wall and brushing a kiss against your knuckles, cheeks coloring a little when you stand on your toes to kiss his cheek too.

“Now,” Steve said, smiling as he caught Bucky’s eye, “About getting you some ice cream, Anywhere good on this block?”

“I know just the place,” you reassure them, “And they have my favorite flavor.”

“Just as long as they have strawberry,” Steve said, retaking your arm.

“And chocolate,” Bucky added, taking your other.

“I’m pretty sure they do... but if you steal a bite of mine, you’ll never look back.”

“That’s pretty bold talk to two men that have liked the same flavor for 100 odd years,” Bucky teased.

“Yeah,” you admit, “But cake batter.”

“Cake batter?” Steve asked, smiling at Bucky over your head. Stick a fork in him. He was done. He was smiling. Soft for you already, and he hadn’t even been with you an hour. It felt good, seeing Bucky looking a little like his old self. Something in his heart unclenched a little. And even if he didn’t already like you for yourself, he’d always like you for that. Maybe, Steve decided, even love you. And it took his breath away how fast that had happened. And one look at Bucky told him the other man felt the same way.

“Cake batter,” you answer, “It’s magic.”

“Magic, Steve,” Bucky added, teasing you gently.

“Hey,” you pout prettily, “Don’t knock it until you try it.”

“I dunno,” Steve teased, “I’m pretty set in my ways. Old man, you know.”

“You better get unset,” you tell him, grinning.

“Oh,” Bucky said, tilting your chin up gently. He was enjoying having someone smaller than him to loom over. It felt nice knowing he could throw you over his shoulder if he wanted.

“Yeah,” you say, scrunching your nose up at him, “It’s a brand new world... And I’m gonna show you around.”

“I think I like the sound of that Stevie,” Bucky said, glancing at Steve with a smirk.

Steve grinned and folded his arms, “And what makes you think we need it?”

“C’mon,” you snort, “Y’all didn’t even know about cake batter ice cream, I shudder to think what you’re missing out on.”

“Steve has a list,” Bucky said, winking.

“A list?” you ask, looking between them.

“Stuff people tell me to look up,” he said cheeks coloring.

“Oh my god. That’s adorable. I wanna see!”

“Well, order your ice cream, and I’ll show you,” he says, kissing your forehead gently. You’re cute. And Sweet. And the way you look up at him, all big eyes and a soft little smile makes his heart skip a beat. Some things about girls haven’t changed. And he’s glad that didn’t.

“Promise?” you ask, bouncing on the balls of your feet happily.

“Promise,” he answers, chucking you gently under the chin.

Steve and Bucky watch you order, amused. Cake batter ice cream with brownie pieces and pecans. Sweet, comforting, and decadent. It suited you. Bucky ordered his chocolate. With more chocolate. Chocolate pieces. And brownie. And hot fudge. Steve ordered his strawberry with whipped cream and graham crackers. But, sitting at the table, after both stealing a bite of yours, they had to admit that you had the superior taste in ice cream.

But, in between bites as you go through Steve’s list, by turns amused and horrified that he didn’t know about things yet, it felt right. It felt like they’d known you for years the way you teased and cuddled. Eager to touch them both and give them attention. It felt like they’d found something they’d always been missing. And as they teased you and cuddled you gently, the way you leaned into them and basked in the attention told them that you felt the same way.

Tags: @past-perfect-future-tense, @lookinsidemyhead, @rinkashirikitateku, @dumbubblegum

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tomorrowusa · 3 years

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Faced with an even bigger disaster—a devastating COVID-19 outbreak with a projected 1 million deaths by the end of July amid shortages of ambulances, oxygen, and vaccines—Modi is blaming anyone but himself. His lack of leadership likely played a major role in recent elections in West Bengal, India’s fourth-most populous state, where voters handed Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a resounding defeat. It was the state he coveted most, and where he’d campaigned relentlessly, holding irresponsible public rallies even as the virus was multiplying across the country. [ ... ] Modi has never failed to take credit for achievements belonging to others, nor has he accepted blame for the various disasters during his seven-year rule. Now, with the worst public health crisis for India in nearly a century, Modi's luck may have finally run out.

Indian author and editor Salil Tripathi writing at the journal Foreign Policy.

Some related reporting by Salimah Shivji of CBC News.

"As people are suffering, most certainly some of that suffering is translating into an anger against the political leadership," said Yamini Aiyar, president of the New Delhi-based think tank Centre for Policy Research.

Aiyar said it's well known that India spends far less than any other comparable economy on its health care system, about 1 percent of its GDP, and the country's health infrastructure is "creaking if not broken".

And yet the Indian government didn't spend time strengthening it to prepare for a possible second wave of an unpredictable virus.

"Rather we fell into the trap of assuming there was such a thing as Indian exceptionalism," she told CBC News. The first wave of the pandemic did not hit India as hard as public health experts had feared nor as hard as other countries.

People who believe in “(fill in the blank with name of country) exceptionalism” are in for an eventual rude awakening. No country gets to exempt itself from biology, economics, psychology, or common sense.

Both Indian exceptionalism and American exceptionalism played roles in those countries’ disastrous reactions to the pandemic.

The US had a change in administration four months ago and is on its way to recovery with a pro-science and anti-authoritarian president. Sadly, Modi will probably be in office for an additional three years; Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, a Modi appointee, is urging Indians to eat dark chocolate to deal with COVID-19.

‘Let them eat dark chocolate.’ India’s Covid-19 crisis is devastating its most desperate people: The Economist

Mostly, however, the government is notable by its absence. Harsh Vardhan, the health minister, who has promoted herbal Covid “cures”, last week advised Indians to eat extra-dark chocolate with “more than 70 per cent cocoa” in order to beat Covid-related stress. Perhaps he should read a recent World Bank report, which shows that 86 per cent of Indian families cannot afford a basic balanced diet, let alone fancy chocolate, The Economist said.

#covid-19 #pandemic #coronavirus #india #pandemic response #narendra modi #public health #harsh vardhan #dark chocolate #bjp #exceptionalism #salil tripathi #salimah shivji #डार्क चॉकलेट #हर्ष वर्धन #नरेंद्र मोदी #નરેન્દ્ર મોદી #भारत #இந்தியா

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piracytheorist · 5 years

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Though The Sun May Not Rise Again (1/1)

Summary: And so the world is ending. Their humanity, though, is not. Post-apocalyptic AU.

Warning: This fanfiction includes themes of natural mass disaster, mentions of blood, off-screen background character deaths, discussions about death, as well as implied, eventual, untimely major character deaths. Proceed with caution.

Thanks to @fraddit for her quick and effective advice!

Word count: ~2.7k AO3

Nobody expects the world to end that way.

Killian finds himself in a subway station at around 11 pm when what feels like the strongest earthquake ever shakes the whole place. People are literally thrown to the end of the platform, the train that he just missed flies off the tracks to a horribly rough landing against the wall. Light bulbs and TV screens crack and the station is filled by screams of fear and pain.

What it feels like hours later, the earth stops moving and the few people left that are able to move struggle their way to the surface. Killian loses his breath at the sight - and not in a good way.

Towers, skyscrapers - they’re all gone. Very few buildings are left, and even fewer of them look only slightly damaged. The roads are filled with blood and bodies - in one or more pieces, too.

Heavily injured people stretch their arms out in despair, some too speechless to actually call for help. Killian and the other survivors try to help, but it doesn’t take them long to realize that help isn’t coming at all.

The first vehicle they see in hours is a reporter van. There’s only the driver in it, his head poorly bandaged. He doesn’t say a word when they approach him, only leads them to the back of the van, where he puts on a video for them.

It’s a broadcast from the International Space Station, the people on camera frantically trying to say that the Earth has stopped spinning on its axis. It wasn’t earthquakes that ruined the cities - it was the Earth’s own atmosphere that apparently didn’t stop with the Earth. Then it’s images from space, and what Killian sees is so surreal he wonders if he’s dreaming.

He’d never wondered what would happen in such a case, but he guesses it makes sense that just because the Earth stopped spinning, nothing would stay where it was. But it’s just different to actually see waves rise from the ocean and literally swallow the ground - all of Europe, the west coasts of Africa and the Americas, India and southwest Asia, even more than half of Australia, all swept up by huge tsunamis. Any place that had big bodies of water on its west is now gone.

Killian watches the video again and again, a heavy emptiness in his chest as he watches the British Isles disappear under the waves. He had some third-fourth cousins there. And of course, his scumbug of a father. Yet he keeps watching it, every time making it feel even less real.

It only sinks in when, hours later, he walks out from the half-underground assembly station the van took them at, it’s 9 am yet still dark, and significantly colder than he’d expect for October. He sinks to the ground, shaking from sobs.

He still sits outside on the slowly freezing ground when that same van arrives at the station. He looks at it, realizing his breath is now coming out in a cloud, and he counts the survivors coming out of it. One, two, three, four - a child that isn’t holding anyone’s hand, five, six-

His breath is cut short again when he sees Emma exit the van. She’s alive! He stands up slowly, his legs feeling colder by the second and he runs to her, wrapping his arms around her. She’s slow to return the embrace, he can feel her trembling breath against his shoulder, but that’s alright. She’s safe. She survived. She may still be aloof as ever and not even consider getting into a relationship with him now that the world’s ending - what the bloody hell is he thinking?! - but she’s here and she’s alive.

“You’re alive,” he says. It’s the first words he says since the disaster.

He watches her nearly gulp her food down as he holds his chin in his hand, trying to conceal how much it’s trembling. She also happened to be underground at the time of the “stop”, but her exit had been blocked and she with the other ten survivors had stayed trapped until just an hour or so ago.

One of the calmest survivors has managed to move the equipment from the van and contact the ISS.

The Earth is now tidally locked to the sun, they say.

What’s left of the Americas is stuck on the side that’s not being lit by it, they say.

Even if they survive the freezing temperatures and the detriment of civilization, they’ll never see the sun again, they say.

The Earth’s magnetic field will fade away and deadly radiation from space will enter its atmosphere. The dark side will be too cold for plants to grow even with artificial light, and the light side too hot. The inbetween parts will be wrecked by storms created from the exchange of hot and freezing air from both sides. No-one knows exactly how many people survived the “stop”, but it won’t be too long before the oxygen runs out and they suffocate.

“So what do you think?” Emma asks him on day three. “What will we die from? The cold? Radiation? Suffocation?”

“Starvation,” he says, looking at the tinned food the group has managed to scavenge. It’s not enough to last all of them long enough. There’s no doubt there’s more out there, but it would take the courage to actually risk the trek in the cold, and that’s even if the group agrees to risk using up more of the van’s limited gas.

It’s not like there are any gas stations left.

Day six, the power generator stops working. One of the survivors manages to create a dynamo-like extension to at least provide enough energy to listen to the daily announcements from the ISS. The survivors scavenge for wood to burn in the station’s only fireplace. With destroyed homes around, it’s not that hard. No-one says how they fear that’ll probably make the oxygen run out faster.

Day twelve, three of the group leave, desperate to search for more supplies. Only one returns.

Day forty, the ISS says everything on the light side is boiling. There are zero confirmed and zero estimated survivors on that side.

“Never thought I’d miss the sun that much,” Killian tells Emma. “Haven’t missed it that much, but still.”

Day sixty-three, the van returns with more supplies and an empty gas tank.

With the lives lost to illnesses and lack of medicine, the rations aren’t that bad. But they’re probably the last they’ll have.

Day seventy-five, the ISS says they predict people on the dark side have about a year left of oxygen and protection from radiation.

Day seventy-five in the evening, Killian confesses his feelings to Emma.

“I’ve been in love with you since long before the disaster. I’ve feared it didn’t matter if I said anything now. But then I thought, bloody hell, the world is ending. Now’s as good as any time.”

“There’s no room for love in this world,” she says, her face fallen.

He didn’t expect anything better; he knew how much she’s been hurt in the past. “I’m not asking for anything. I just wanted you to know.”

Day eighty-two, Emma and Killian play Never Have I Ever with a half-full, forgotten bottle of rum. When he next wakes, he doesn’t remember sleeping with her tucked in his arms; he supposes she doesn’t, either, but his heart warms when she doesn’t move away upon waking up.

Day ninety-seven, Emma kisses him.

“I kind of wanted to wait for the hundredth day, for some stupid reason, but couldn’t,” she says, shaking her head.

She looks at him with a slightly apologetic face, but he simply leans back in and captures her lips in his.

Day hundred and six, there are about seven survivors left.

“So are you two gonna propagate the species or what?” Keith tells Killian when they’re on their own.

His hand shouldn’t hurt so much from punching the bastard in the face, should it?

“Lack of vitamin D, you idiot,” Victor says as he wraps a bandage that has seen better days around Killian’s knuckles. “Causes muscle and bone pain, and slower healing.” He then looks at Keith, whose nose is bleeding probably more than it would if they had sunlight. Victor just shakes his head. “Next time, you could use your hook,” he whispers to Killian, then flinches. “Not in... not in that way. You- you know what I mean.”

Day hundred and thirty, Killian wakes alone. By now he’s gotten used to the perpetually dark sky. He almost always used to wake up before the sunrise, so much that it had become part of his morning routine. But now his own body knows not to expect it, knows that when he’ll walk to the kitchen area for his breakfast rice and tea, he shouldn’t expect to see the telltale blue of dawn peeking out on the horizon.

Doesn’t mean he doesn’t miss it, of course.

Emma is sitting in front of the window, far from the fireplace, a blanket draped across her shoulders. She’s found a spot on the window that isn’t frosted over, and there’s a clear view of the sky, the stars, and the waxing moon. Grabbing a blanket himself, he sits down with her, hugging her from behind.

He’s welcomed by a familiar scent when he’s close enough. “Is that cinnamon?” he says softly.

She looks back at him sheepishly. “It’s just a sprinkle.” She shows him the cup in her hands... that’s definitely not tea. “Ruby found a mix for hot chocolate and I said that someone should have a first taste of it. It’s not as good without milk...” Her face falls.

He’s surprised how he can still feel a small pang in his heart over her disappointment. They’ve all lost so much and watched much more being lost, they’re now living in a world none of them could ever have prepared for, yet their hearts are still soft enough to understand the loss of something so small as good hot chocolate and why Emma would sneak away a sprinkle of cinnamon to make it better.

“It’s okay,” he says, kissing her hair.

What he doesn’t say is how they’ve reached the point where the existence or lack of spices makes such a difference in their moods.

“Ten days of moonlight,” Emma whispers.

He turns his attention back to the sky. “These days I think I understand why ancient cultures made the moon a deity.”

Emma sighs. “I don’t know. Half the time I just look at it and think how it’s taunting us with the sunlight we can’t have anymore.”

Now he feels a bigger pang in his heart. He hadn’t thought of it that way. “I see it like- like... a memory.”

She scoffs.

“It’s like my tattoo of Milah. When I- after I lost her, and before I met you... it was in memory of what I’d had, not what I’d lost.”

He watches her as she wraps her hand around her swan necklace. “Didn’t peg you as such an optimist.”

“It’s not optimism, Swan. I’d never thought I’d be capable of moving on until I met you.”

She looks at him for a moment, lips parted, before she smiles a bit and drops her eyes. “They did use to say that the moon spurs romantic spirit, didn’t they?”

He smiles at her light-hearted joke in face of his confession, and when she looks up at him, he leans in for a kiss, tasting cocoa and cinnamon.

Day hundred and fifty-eight, there’s no transmission from the ISS.

Day hundred and sixty-three, everyone has accepted the fact that there won’t be any more of those.

Emma and Killian sit cuddled together in front of the half-frosted window, looking at the full moon and wondering where the estranged space station might be now - if it’s still in order even.

“Do you think they’ll wanna make babies up there?” she asks.

“Is that even possible?”

“I think I saw a video once. The baby may turn out... weird? Cause of the lack of gravity.” She flinches. “Wonder how the mom would push it out without gravity’s help, too.” She’s silent for a moment, before adding, “Would you have a baby with me, if we were up there?”

A warmth spreads in his chest. “What you said about the lack of gravity makes it questionable. But I think yes.”

“What would you name it?”

“Alice, if it’s a girl. For my mother.”

“And a boy?”

He smiles widely. How different that discussion would be if the world wasn’t ending.

“I’d leave that to you.”

She smirks. “Chicken.”

He notices how she doesn’t ask why he wouldn’t give his father the same honor he’d give his mother.

She turns back front to look at the sky. “What do you miss the most?” she asks.

“As weird as it may sound, the water. My boat.”

“Why would it sound weird?”

He snorts. “I mean, with all the ice around... who would have known we’d live through an apocalypse where there’s an endless supply of water?”

She laughs softly.

“What do you miss?”

“I do miss that yellow Bug. It barely got any damage during the Stop, unlike other cars in that garage. But we could barely fit through the opening ourselves, much less a car. And I don’t think I was thinking clearly enough at the time to think it was the last time I’d see it.”

There’s not much he’d have taken with him, had he known the world would be ending. Now he resorts to working the dynamo for hours, just enough for the tiniest bit of battery on his phone just so he can turn it on and look at the photos of his mother and brother he has saved in it, before it turns off again.

The tiniest part of him is jealous of Emma for not having such a thing to miss.

Day two hundred.

It’s quiet.

Emma is lying awake next to him, sensing what he doesn’t want to share.

It could be just a simple, minor infection that’ll go away on its own, he’s only had minor stomach pains. Though Emma’s occasional comment about his high pain tolerance worries him that it may be much worse than he thinks.

Still, since they lost Victor, there hasn’t been much they can do when they feel sick or unwell. It will either pass... or they will.

“You once asked me what I thought we’d die from,” he says.

Her brows furrow and she swallows hard.

“If I could choose... I’d go with cold.”

“Why?”

“It’s quick. Eventually you lose feeling of your limbs, and maybe that doesn’t hurt that much. Especially when your body is past the point of shivering. As for other ways, it’s already getting harder to breathe and we’re already starving. So, tried and tested.” He sighs. “Besides, you can be outside and have a last clear view of the sky and the moon.”

Does he have the courage to ask her to take him out there, if it comes to the point where he’s not gonna get better?

He sees tears in her eyes, but she smiles. “You’d probably freeze slower than me. You’re one hand short.”

“I’m also hotter.”

A laugh bursts out of her.

And still, the thought that crosses his mind is how, in spite of everything, they can still have this.

It’s the proof of their humanity that has sustained, despite the world itself doing everything in its power to make them disappear. And out of that, there grows a hope that there are people out there somewhere, in better shelters, surviving much better than they are, maybe even growing their own food and developing technology strong enough to one day, maybe years from now, reach their by then empty shelter and finding their journals, filled with happy little moments like this.

Huh. Maybe he is optimistic after all.

#Captain Swan #cs ff #captain swan ff #post apocalypse #post apocalyptic #also look it's sad but I think this is the most romantic sh!t I've ever written #read the warnings #piracytheorist writes

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jacrey19-blog · 5 years

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Coffee processing

How would you take your espresso? Two creams, twelve sugars? Nine splendas? Heaps of high fructose corn syrup in that latte? Or then again would you say you are to a greater extent a perfectionist that adores the sensitive nut and chocolate notes of a Guatemalan? What about the sweet caramel completion of the best straight coffee shot around the local area? All things considered, before you can drink up Joe in any technique, espresso beans must be expelled from the cherry. Indeed, even natural espresso. That is done in two or three different ways relying upon the nation of starting point and it is called preparing. Notwithstanding the developing district's impact on cup taste, every strategy for handling gives the bean a particular flavor profile in the general last taste of the espresso.

The wet procedure is the procedure wherein the natural product is expelled from the seeds (beans) before they are dried. The wet procedure strategy is additionally called washed espresso. In this strategy the organic product is expelled in water and the beans are generally dried on yards in the sun.

Wet prepared espressos like those from South America, Colombia and some from Ethiopia. Most Central Americans like Guatemalan and Costa Rican are wet-prepared also. These espressos cleaner, more brilliant, and fruitier. Most nations with espresso esteemed for its apparent causticity, will process it utilizing the wet-process.

The dry procedure is another technique, otherwise called unwashed or normal procedure. It is the most seasoned strategy for preparing green espresso beans where the whole cherry is cleaned and afterward set in the sun to dry on tables or in dainty layers on yards, totally unblemished and the dried cherry is expelled after it has dried. This will give the espresso a better taste because of the natural product drying flawless.

The greater part of the espressos in Brazil, Ethiopia and India utilize the dry strategy. In blustery territories be that as it may, it isn't reasonable. In any case, there are numerous qualities that are straightforwardly identified with the manner in which these espresso beans are handled too. Dry-handled espressos like those from Indonesia, Ethiopia, Brazil, and Yemen. The dry-process (otherwise called the characteristic strategy) produces espresso that is substantial in body, sweet, smooth, and complex. This preparing technique is frequently utilized in nations where precipitation is rare and heaps of bright days are accessible to dry the espresso appropriately.

Another technique utilized in Brazil basically yet in addition utilized on certain ranches in Sulawesi, Indonesia and Sumatra. These are known as semi-dry handled espresso (otherwise known as pulped regular or semi-wet procedure). The espresso is set up by evacuating the external skin of the cherry and drying the espresso with the sticky adhesive and the inward skins as yet sticking to the bean.

With respect to the pulped regular technique for preparing espresso beans, taking out the maturation arrange that evacuates the silver skin considers an espresso that has both wet and dry attributes. In this manner, more sweetness than wet-prepared espressos, of the group of dry-handled and a portion of the sharpness of a wet-prepared espresso. This kind of handling just occurs in nations where there is generally low stickiness and the espresso can be dried quickly without aging. The nation that has put this procedure on the map is Brazil. FYI maturation happens when the internal disgusting adhesive is expelled before drying. Pulped espresso beans are put into concrete maturation tanks with water where they are permitted to age for 16-36 hours.

Typically re-passed fruits, or floaters as they are additionally called are disposed of however some especially have a flavor profile that is better than most pulped espressos. These specific fruits drift in the water during wet-preparing on the grounds that they have dried excessively long on the tree before being gathered enabling the bean to remain in contact with the adhesive for a more extended measure of time before maturation starts. These are in some cases called raisins also. This strategy might be viewed as a fourth technique for preparing espresso. Be that as it may, these espressos generally exceptionally constrained.

Presently before you go gaga and dismantle up to the nearby Starbucks for a trial, get genuine! You won't discover anything close measuring quality at the green monster. You need to go to a quality autonomous bistro or roaster of gourmet espresso beans. The greater part of these spots are your neighborhood autonomous café. What's more, on the off chance that you drink your espresso dark you are prepared to go! You can truly select the flavor profiles of any espresso when you savor it its characteristic state. On the off chance that you are one to suffocate your blend in cream and sugar or are a vanilla latte addict forget about it! You won't taste anything besides sugar. Suffocating the espresso won't let the common flavors be delighted in and relished.

There are characteristic sugars inside espresso beans simply holding on to wake up. This is the thing that the cooking procedure does. As the bean warms from within, the sugars normally caramelize and penetrate the surface. The level of sweetness and different flavors are legitimately identified with the length of the broiling time frame. That is the reason dull (French) broiled espressos taste consumed. Dark=burnt espresso sugars. Get it? So as to get each subtlety and note out of an espresso, it must be measured. That is, 'guzzled' from a spoon. By doing this, the espresso gets an opportunity to truly cover within your mouth and tongue consequently overwhelming your taste buds. There truly is anything but a superior method to test espresso.

Essential espresso tasting wording is:

Corrosiveness - This is a lovely pungency that is you can taste on the back of your sense of taste. It ought to be recognized from harsh, or an unsavory sharpness. An acidy espresso is practically similar to a dry wine.

Lingering flavor - The vibe that is experienced after the espresso is gulped. It is otherwise called the completion.

Parity It implies that nobody quality overpowers all others, however there is sufficient multifaceted nature in the espresso to stir intrigue.

Body-The general mouth feel. This is the feeling of largeness, extravagance, and thickness at the back of the tongue when you rinse the espresso around your mouth.

Flavor - Acidity has something to do with flavor, thus do fragrance and body. A few espressos have a more extravagant, more full flavor than others, while different espressos an acidy tang that will in general overwhelm everything else

Regardless of whether you are not intending to 'mug' espresso as we experts do, you will get increasingly out of your cuppa Joe by drinking it dark. Along these lines, give yourself a treat at some point and attempt espresso dark in the event that you never have. In the event that you have and couldn't have cared less for it, odds are you didn't have amazing Arabica espresso beans for your mix! You can't locate the genuine flavor attributes of an espresso bean except if you utilize the great stuff! Go to your nearby free café and get some information about their entire bean choice. They may simply make them stun espressos. Some nearby cafés are doing espresso tastings (cuppings) these days. It is by all accounts an in thing. Attempt it at some point!

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steveramsdale · 6 years

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The ‘At Least Two Cups of Coffee Blog’ Blog

If you are reading this blog, then, by some miracle of chance, I survived to write and post it. This is entirely implausible but, apparently, true.

A crazy week in a crazy country full of life, history, noise, mess, poverty, beauty and spices.

Get comfortable, make sure you’ve been for that comfort break and steel yourself. This could be a long one. I set out to do something so I’d have blog material and there may be too much. I came to India! It is early on Monday morning now and I realised that if I left this until Saturday morning, there would be no time even if nothing else happens.

We have been excited for a while about coming. We planned with, and are here with our friend and colleague Wendy and her two wonderful children. We flew to Amritsar, a direct, two-hour flight, early on Saturday morning. Another friend, Dave, was also on the flight. The flight was, fortunately, uneventful.

As we approached and descended towards Amritsar airport, I noticed that the cars were driving on the correct (left) side of the road. “That’s good,” I thought. I soon had to reassess that observation. As we landed, one man started a very half-hearted clap but was not joined and stopped after, perhaps, five claps. It was a better landing than that.

The customs/immigration process was really easy. We had organised e-visas so there was little delay. Part of the process was having fingerprint scans. I could not get the fingers of my right hand into a position that the machine could read. The man at the desk decided not to worry about this, saying that we could “do it next time”. This is incorrect in many ways (well, at least two).

But, after a short wait for the suitcases, we were in India. It was very pleasantly warm. Although the car park had many white cars, not a-one was a Chevrolet.

The taxi driver arranged by the people at the hotel, was waiting for us with a sign saying “Tashkent”. As the plane, and everyone on it, had come from Tashkent, this could have been a little imprecise. We went to check if he was our driver and he had a screenshot of the text exchange between Wendy and the hotel. He, very sensibly, had the steering wheel, as God or Darwin (the jury’s out) intended, on the right-hand side of the car. Our suitcase was put on to a roof rack but was not secured in any way. I was sure I would see it fly off the roof at some point. I did not. It did not. The airport is not too far from the city and I soon had to change my “oh, they drive on the left” idea to “oh, they are supposed to drive on the left but many don’t.” This view also evolved over the next few days.

I have, in previous blogs, mentioned the lack of varied bird life in Tashkent, the one sighting of a hawk in the city and the eagles seen in the mountains and fro trains though the desert. Here, I had seen at least ten kites (I think) before we were 15 minutes in to the journey. On Sunday, we saw at least fifty circling and flying down to a river. There are also parrot-like birds and nightjars (I think). Anyway, there is interesting wildlife on hand, including Simon, Alvin and Theodor watching us from a tree.

So far (it’s Monday morning remember), we have used a lot of tuk-tuks. This is a really crazy way to travel. It is also a very cheap way to travel. I had, of course, heard about the roads in India but you do have to see it. I thought Tashkent roads we fairly anarchic but I will have to reassess that idea. Even on straight bits of road, there are bikes and motorbikes coming the wrong way. There are pedestrians doing whatever they need to do and vehicles of all sorts weaving in and out. And then there are junctions. This is governed purely by random chance. Drivers go in whichever direction they need to whenever they decide the odds slightly favour success. We have not yet seen even the smallest of accidents – just near-misses and cars with bumps and dents. There are untold numbers of scooters, mopeds and motorbikes. Very few have only a rider. The most popular so far was carrying five people. We were behind one where a girl of around five or six years of age was sitting with her hands in her pockets, not holding on and casually sorting out her hair, as necessary. She turned to smile at us. I have calculated that the ratio of helmets to people who travel on motorbikes is about 1:10,000. We passed one biker who took off his helmet as he was riding along and placed it in front of him on the tank.

On Saturday, after settling in, we went to the Golden Temple. This is a remarkable and wonderful place. It is clearly sacred to the Sikhs of India and the world. Everyone has to remove their shoes before entering and most kneel and put their foreheads to the marble floor to honour the temple and the sacred book it houses. The temple itself is in the middle of a man-made lake and is reached via a walkway. Many people were either getting into the water or, at least, reaching down and putting water on to their heads or even drinking some. The precinct around the pool is very large. People take selfies in front of the temple and the many signs saying that photography is forbidden in this sacred place. Of course I have a photograph of one such sign. Here, for the first of many occasions, people started to ask to take pictures with us. We stood still, at one point, to observe the whole scene and were immediately swamped by such requests. How do you describe those pictures when you post post them? Time forbids more detail about this experience.

We were all hungry by the time we left the temple and went to the first café/restaurant we found. We, of course, had fabulous curry costing almost nothing. I will not repeat this idea throughout the blog, so you should assume that this does happen repeatedly. Indian food I have had in the UK is (was) probably my favourite as a category, but it is at another level here.

On Sunday, we visited a fort which is now a developing visitor attraction. It was used by an 18th/19th Century warrior/leader of the Punjab and Sikh Kingdom, Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Later, the colonial British used it as barracks and, more recently, the Indian army has used it. Now it is a theme park. The children enjoyed the 7D(!) cinema presentation, camel and segway rides.

In the afternoon, we set off for the nearby border with Pakistan. This involved a taxi ride of about an hour on a variety of road surfaces. We were not sure what to expect but had been told it was worth a visit. Each day, at about 4:30pm, there is a ceremony of lowering the flag(s) and changing the guard. Car and coach parking is extensive and a few thousand people were there/arriving/arrived. Plenty of retail and food opportunities exist also. We were directed to the special line for foreign visitors and were allowed through without our passport, showing our TSB visa cards and clearly foreign faces as proof/ID. After a security check we walked to a part-stadium, part-amphitheatre. A short piece of road leads down to a large gate which marks the border. I don’t really know what I had expected but this was not it. The other surprise, which should not have been a surprise, was that exactly the same scenario was being enacted on the other side – the Pakistan side. The Border Security Force put on a really good show. I’m sure you know that there are real tensions between these two countries. This ritual, however, shows clear cooperation and seems more theatrical than military. There was an M.C. whipping up the crowd. There were men walking around selling chocolate, drinks, crisps and Cornettos. There was (very) loud music. A large group of women and girls were invited to either run towards to border waving flags or to dance enthusiastically. When the actual event started, it was bizarre and fascinating. Different groups, pairs or individual soldiers marched down the road to the gates, which were now open. Apart from two scary looking soldiers in typical army uniform and carrying guns, who marched in a ‘normal’ style, all of the other marched with very exaggerated steps, some almost kicking themselves in the head. At the border, they ‘confronted’ their Pakistani counterparts, raising arms and sticking out their chests. The scary guys stood in front of two similarly scary opposite numbers. A couple of the ‘marchers’ shook hands across the line. Most of the uniforms are very ceremonial with hats that have large plumes.

This whole ‘show’ has clearly been planned and coordinated between the two side. If there are two ‘this’ side, there are two ‘that’ side. The respective flags were lowered together. Eventually, the gates were closed

Shortly before the actual ‘ceremony’, three people arrived with airport-style luggage trollies and actually crossed the border.

This was a bizarre and unmissable event. On the way back to the car, a man stopped me and asked to take a picture of his child with me – he had a baby of about one-year-old. He handed the child to me, whereupon the child began to cry. The father now has a picture of a foreigner holding his distraught child and a talking point for years to come.

On Monday, the dreaded travellers’ tummy hit me. We explored a little in the morning but I had to take to my bed and stay near the toilet. We returned to the Golden Temple in the evening as we had been told it was even more spectacular when lit up at night. It was quite cold and raining by now and I could not face walking around without shoes on, so I stayed in the Shoes House and watch the world go by, feeling sorry for myself and being smiled at by beautiful people. I went back to the hotel by myself and could see the temple from outside the complex. It was beautiful. I haggled my tuk-tuk fare to 150 rupees but when I got back, I only had 136 to my name. This was accepted without apparent annoyance. We’d had an argument with one driver (who was certainly under the influence) who demanded 300 rupees. He would not take what we offered and I eventually left in on the ground and walked away.

Overnight, Mairi joined the sick club. By the morning, I was not feeling as bad, but we had an eight-hour train journey to Delhi to survive. We had booked a ‘first class’ sleeper compartment and so we were able to sleep and rest. The toilets were not so bad. For part of the journey, a young man with a sword was standing outside one of them.

The train was not unlike the Soviet over-night train in Uzbekistan – except there was no samovar. We passed the time and saw some sights, especially as we drew close to Delhi. There are untold numbers of people living out their lives in make-shift huts by the side of the railway lines.

Delhi is much bigger, noisier and more chaotic than Amritsar. I walked in the area outside the hotel early on Wednesday morning and went in to an early-opening café. I had reasonable coffee and a cinnamon roll. I had a 100 rupee note and 2000 note. The bill, coincidently, was 136 rupees. The young man a duty was able, a little unwillingly, to change the large note. With Mairi sleeping off the bug, the rest of our party visited the largest mosque in India. We also visited Connaught Place. This is the up-market part of the city and very clearly part of the British legacy. It also has many familiar brands – the obvious ones such as Starbucks and Pizza Hut. Mairi was feeling a little better in the evening, so we went to Pizza Hut for something familiar and comforting.

Thursday was the big day – The Taj Mahal. We had pre-booked a tour with a driver, guide and all tickets and so on arranged. It was about a three-hour drive mostly on a quiet, three-lane motorway. I slept quite a bit, but when awake thought that it could almost be the M1 through Derbyshire and Yorkshire – except for the part where some kind of monkey ran across the road.

As this is going on and on….I’ll be brief. The Taj Mahal is as beautiful as you might expect, as people say. It was amazing to be there and see a structure most people have seen so many times in pictures. “I typed this at the Taj Mahal” – that’s pasted from my phone notes, as a little gift to you. Part of our tour took us to a ‘no obligation to buy’ marble goods workshop and shop. We saw how the inlays are made and were shown various goods. The pressure part of the ‘no obligation’ was a little uncomfortable. We also saw the Red Fort of Agra, another spectacular construction, this one also used by occupying British forces. This was a long day, but worth it. The final part of the drive back was much longer through the Delhi rush-hour.

We spent Friday on another tour. We paid a really low price to have a driver take us to different sights and to a lovely restaurant. We declined the shopping experience he wanted us to have! There are huge, ancient buildings in Delhi, built by powerful men to show their power and wealth to succeeding generations – and you wonder how things would be different if that wealth had been shared then instead of hoarded and spent on futile vanity projects. Humayun has an amazing tomb, though. The poverty is also still obvious.

I have just scrolled up and seen how long this is, so I’m going to stop soon. This has been a great trip. We have had great company and seen amazing things. Not everything is included – sickness tales, for example. It is early on Saturday morning and we leave today.

Next week? Back to normal? We’ll see.

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azariahluna · 7 years

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Only In India (Re-Write)

Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox arrived to her hotel room, furious, throws the rose across the room that Cooper had given her before he slipped away after the dance. Not caring where it landed. The Cooper Gang got away once again, but this time with the Clockwerk Wings. Not so long ago, probably a few weeks ago, they got away with the Clockwerk Tail Feathers. "How?" Carmelita thought."How I didn't know that it was him?" Pissed off at herself, she goes to the closet and removes her dress and puts on some navy blue pajama shorts and a plain white tank top. She then lets her blue hair down that reached to bum. Lastly, she places her Shock Pistol next to the bed.

"He always gets away." Although she's angry from the event, she decided to lay down on her bed to get some rest but began thinking about that damn Ringtail. Instead of thinking about him as a criminal, she began thinking about him in a more personal romantic way. Thinking about the time he saved her from Clockwerk and then......the kiss. Carmelita would never forget that day he kissed her and left her handcuffed. She still remembers how his lips were soft and nice against hers. Craving for more and wanting to rub her hands all over his body and make love to him. Carmelita shakes her head for thinking about Sly like that."He's a damn criminal, not more than that. He should be placed behind bars like every criminal out there. Not a lover."

"Ugh...." Carmelita groaned and irritated, got up from the bed and walks outside to her balcony. Leaning over the railing using her hands. Starring at the midnight navy blue sky. A cool breeze from the wind hits her body causing shivers through her whole body. "If he wasn't a thief and worked for Interpol things would have been much better between us." She closed her eyes when all of a sudden a voice came from behind her.

"Good evening Miss Fox." The familiar voice said. She opened her eyes and turned around quickly, seeing Cooper twirling his cane sitting on the edge of the bed giving her his signature smile. Not wearing his tuxedo but instead wearing his usual thief attire. "That fucking smile I swear." She thought. "What the hell are you doing here?" Carmelita said giving Sly a stern look crossing both her arms.

"I just wanted to stop to give my favorite Inspector a goodbye before the gang and I leave tomorrow." Sly responded as he stood up, walking towards Carmelita. "You know, you looked ravishing in that dress you wore tonight love. Probably should do it more often." He complimented, placing a hand on her cheek, caressing it. Carmelita, flattered and blushed from the compliment, looks away for him not to notice. Even though he did which made him chuckle. Her heart began beating like crazy. "I would gladly do it more often once I place you behind bars, Ringtail." She snapped at him, slapping his hand away from her face. Another cold breeze wind occurs, making Carmelita shiver once more."It may be lovely tonight but it is pretty chilly and I don't want you to catch a cold, gorgeous." Sly said.

"I'm fine." She answered in a severe tone as she continues to shiver, giving him a glare. Carmelita sighed and walked back inside her room. Sly closed the balcony and looks back at his favorite Inspector. Carmelita was pointing her shock pistol at the thief."Now put your hands behind your back you no good damn thief." Since she was the first one to enter the room and while Sly was closing the balcony doors, she took the opportunity to grab her shock pistol. Sly chuckled,"You see Inspector, I came by to give a goodbye. Not turn myself in." He crossed both his arms as he is holding his cane.

"Besides, I haven't stolen anything..." He trailed off."yet. Those Clockwerk parts don't belong to the Klaww Gang." He explained. In the corner of his eye he saw the rose that he had given Carmelita before he left the ball."I see one rose wasn't enough to satisfy you huh, my sweet?" "Shut the hell up and quit it with your flirty chit-chat." She sassed and gripped the pistol tighter. "You crooks are all the same. You all break the law so that doesn't make you different." Sly flinched from her comeback and sighed."If I'm the same as every other crook out there, you would have arrested me by the second you saw me." He said as he stepped closer to Carmelita. He got so close to her that her shock pistol made contact to his chest.Sly leaned next to her ear," And you would have shocked me with your shock pistol." He whispered.

"He's right, I would have arrested him and shocked him already but I haven't because these fucking feelings I have for him." Carmelita thought. He may be a pain in the ass for her all the time but he would brighten her day with his flirty chit-chats and compliments. Although she wasn't sure if he actually meant them but It worked. I mean he did handcuff her to a railing after all. Carmelita snarled, pushed the pistol against him."I'm right here if you're going to shoot. Point blank range, so there isn't a way for you to miss and you would arrest me. I'm not going to run either, so here's your chance Ms.Fox." Sly told. "Here's your chance! SHOOT!" Her mind shouted. She sighed, loosening the grip on the pistol and decided to not arrest him. She placed her shock pistol back on the mini dresser. Carmelita loves way him too much.More than anything including her job even though it would cost her reputation.Sly,confused by her actions made him question why she didn't shoot nor arrest him. He's happy she didn't but it wondered him. Carmelita had turned away and not bother looking at Cooper."You can go." She muttered. Heartbroken, knowing that she keeps her feelings to herself and that they will continue playing cops and robbers. She felt so vulnerable around him. Butterflies flying in her stomach, her heart beating like if its about to rip out of her chest.

Sly then turns grabs her shoulder, turning her around to face him. She starred deeply in his dark chocolate eyes,lost in them."I also stopped by for another reason." He said. Carmelita, confused of what could the other reason be. He leaned close to her muzzle, a few centimeters away from their lips making contact."I came to steal your breath away." He cupped her face and kissed her. Carmelita's eyes widen by surprised and decided to return the kiss. This caught Sly off guard, he thought he would get yelled at by the lovely vixen but instead she is returning the affection. It only lasted a few seconds but it felt like an eternity for them. They were both breathless as their foreheads were touching. Sly looked at his watch and noticed that he would have to leave at the moment before Bentley starts lecturing him again for not saying where he wondered off.

"Carm," He began as he grabbed both her hands putting them against his chest."I'm going to leave right now back to the gang so we can leave for tomorrow." Sly used of his hands to caress her cheek. Carmelita's heart ached once again,"Please stay with me tonight." She cried."Please.....I love you way too much Ringtail." She finally admitted. Sly shocked and smirked. He gives her a quick peck on the lips."And I love you way more, my dear." Carmelita smiles. "And, I will stay with you tonight." He answered her. He kisses her once more. Carmelita returns the kiss as she wraps her arms around his neck. Sly wraps his arms around her waist pulling her body against his. The kiss becomes more heated by the second. Sly licks Carmelita's lips vying for entry. She lets Sly tongue enter her mouth and began dancing with each other. Both battling for dominance, Carmelita won though. Carmelita moans in the thief's mouth and removes his shirt. Revealing his muscles on his chest, abs and muscular arms. Carmelita rubs her hands all over his chest while kissing him. Sly then travel his kisses down to her cheek,jawline and neck."Mmm Sly." She moaned as both her and Sly fall on the bed. Sly on top of Carmelita. He continues to kiss,lick, bite up and down her neck and removes her tank top , revealing her black bra. Carmelita then wrap her legs around his waist and moans. She then starts to remove his belt while Sly kisses her again on the lips. Sly's pants and boxers are discarded to the floor. Sly then removes her pajama shorts and moans. Both were feeling the passion and love, and wanted it badly. Carmelita is only left with her black bra and panties and Sly already naked.

Carmelita flips over to the other side, which makes her on top of Sly. Sly sits up and puts his hands behind her back removing her bra. Carmelita began kissing and bite Sly's neck while rubbing his chest causing him to make a seductive growl.Then Sly removes her panties and both their naked bodies pressed against each other.

They flip over again and Sly goes lower by her breasts. Carmelita gasps and moans Sly obeys what she said and goes lower to her stomach. He licks her stomach and goes lower to the dirty zone. "If you feel really uncomfortable just tell me okay" Sly says. "Okay" Then Carmelita reached over to her mini dresser to turn off the lamp. They made love all night,both were sweating,panting and screaming in ecstasy. Once they were done,Carmelita was on top of Sly under the covers. She kisses him on the lips. "I love you,Ringtail." She said as she snuggles to him. "I love you too,Carm" Sly kisses her one more time and both fall asleep. The End.

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Bollywood Quarantined: Preity Zinta learns to make Dosa, Karisma Kapoor bakes a cake, Shilpa Shetty sweeps the garden, Nushrat Bharucha does night workout, Ayushmann Khurrana recites a poem - Times of India

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Bollywood celebs have been sharing pictures and videos to keep their fans motivated during the lockdown imposed due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The stars are also keeping the fans updated about how they are spending their quarantine period at their homes through social media posts. And now, we take a look at what the actors did on Friday.

Actress Nushrat Bharucha ended her day with some night workout to stay fit while being at home. She posted the pictures on her Instagram and without a doubt she looked amazing! Check it out:

Ayushmann Khurrana recited a poem written by Neeti Pandey who hails from ‘Banaras’. He captioned his video post, “So, I decided I cannot be reading poetry everyday I’ll get bored. So, today I decided that I will read this poem by Neeti Pandey. She is very talented from Banaras.”

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— Ayushmann Khurrana (@ayushmannk) 1585317733000

Karisma Kapoor decided to bake a cake for her family and the staff. In the pictures, she looked fresh while holding a vessel with chocolate in it. Here’s what she posted:

Shraddha Kapoor enjoyed watching birds in the sky and appreciated the beauty of nature. She shared a video of birds flying high in the sky on her Instagram and captioned, “Being home 🏡☁️✨💜 #SimpleJoys #AppreciateNature #Magic #Terrace”

Shilpa Shetty cleaned her garden and shared that the lockdown has made her realise one should always appreciate the house help. In the video, she can be seen wearing a pink tank top with blue leggings and shoes. Watch the video here:

Neil Nitin Mukesh went down the memory lane and shared a video of him wearing a jacket which he wore 11 years ago for his film ‘Aa Dekhe Zara’.

Mouni Roy who is a bookworm spent her day reading a new book. She shared a video of the same on her Instagram. She looked absolutely beautiful in an all-black attire! Take a look:

Preity Zinta learned how to make Masala Dosa. She posted a picture of what she made on her Instagram and wrote, “Yesss ! Finally learnt how to make Masala Dosa 😋”

Here’s what others posted:

Meanwhile, COVID-19 has brought the world to a standstill. As there is no cure for the disease, staying at home is the only way left to combat it and avoid the infection.

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kashmirbikers · 5 years

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15 Tips for a bike trip to Leh Ladakh

Before you begin reading our blog, do make sense of a season in which you're wanting to go for which we have curated a total guide for the equivalent - A Ultimate Guide To Leh-Ladakh by ladakh bike rentals, pick your preferred season and appreciate the magnificence of nature at it's best just in Leh Ladakh.

In the event that your bicycle is your first love and accomplice of your life, at that point you should remove your excellence from the city turmoil, in the midst of the mountains and into lavish greenery that the absolute most extravagant path and scopes of India has. Viewed as one of the most troublesome courses to endeavor by bikers, Manali-Leh Ladakh is additionally known to be the most satisfying one enveloping a wonderful valley in Manali and a grand top in Leh. Your Leh Ladakh bicycle trip is deficient without keeping these tips in your mind as it will make your excursion a fruitful one in light of the correct key components. Here are the 15 Tips you must concentrate on before you plan your bike rental in Leh to Leh Ladakh.

1. Pick The Right Bike

You'll be going through the hardest of streets, you can't stand to settle on the nature of the bicycle so pick one astutely. Give close consideration to the highlights of the bicycle and ensure it's in a decent condition. We prescribe - Royal Enfield 350C or An Enfield Bullet, on the off chance that not that, at that point one can go for pulsar bicycles too.

2. Get Your Bike Serviced

Recollect that you're taking a long excursion and in case you don't know that you bullet for rent is overhauled enough to guarantee a problem free excursion at that point get it adjusted at the earliest opportunity. Get everything fixed as security starts things out before everything - guarantee all parts are working fine to experience an excursion loaded up with a few hindrances, unpleasant courses thus significantly more.

3. Things You've Got To Keep Handy And Easily Accessible

Keep the First-Aid pack convenient, similar to we say security consistently starts things out which ought to incorporate Band-Aids, Antiseptic, Crocin for fever and body agony and Avomine for infection. Climate changes hugy affect your body so keep your medical aid helpful ought to consistently be your priority. First-help pack

4. Choose The Route

In spite of the fact that there are two unique courses to Leh by leh bike rental, one through Manali and another through Srinagar and despite the fact that the previous is favored in light of the risky landscapes, it's prudent to take the last course which goes through Rohtang La, Sarchi, and Upshi. Make sure to choose the course as indicated by your abilities and solace.

5. Not Be A Victim Of Acute Mountain Sickness

You can dispose of this either however arriving at a higher height will wind up making you a casualty of Mountain ailment. In the event that you don't have a solid insusceptibility, at that point your body probably won't have the option to hold up under with the climate changes. Or maybe complete a total wellbeing exam before you leave for the outing. Individuals with hypertension issues, heart diseases and asthma should shun this outing. Indications incorporate a cerebral pain, weariness, stomach sickness, tipsiness - so remain hydrated and take breaks in the middle.

6. Pick The Right Season

You shouldn't experience this excursion whenever you feel like as streets get obstructed because of flighty climate changes and becomes it makes courses incredibly risky for any sort of transport. The best riding season is from Mid-May to Mid-October as the streets from Srinagar and Manali open from Mid-May. So remember this time before you plan your bicycle trip by bullet for rent.

7. Nourishment Supplies

You ought to never depend on road merchants for nourishment fundamentals while voyaging, there can be times that there will be nothing en route to furnish you with nourishment, so you ought to basically keep additional nourishment supplies like chips, rolls, glucose and other little nourishment things. Keep these nourishment supplies in an effectively available pocket on your knapsack as these things ought to be effectively open when hungry. We suggest - Carry a few chocolate bars, little parcel of chips, simple to make noodles or oats and possibly protein chocolate bars also for vitality.

8. Stops ARE IMPORTANT

You must take interims and stops to effectively finish your excursion. You can't bear to be in a surge and break down your body's abilities to finish the excursion. Don't over-apply or enjoy any sort of physical movement, which can give superfluous effort to your body.

9. Convey Extra Petrol

10-20 Liters of additional petroleum is the thing that we suggest as it's a really long excursion and searching for oil in transit is unquestionably not a shrewd alternative to go for. Oil stations are really a long way from Ladakh so ensure your bicycle tanks for bullet on rent are filled sufficiently to guarantee an issue free excursion.

10. Try not to devour antidepressants or Alcohol

It's a major NO to devour any kind of liquor or antidepressants during the excursion rather evening smoking and biting tobacco ought to be kept away from. When going through higher heights, one can confront respiratory issues making it hard to finish the journey.anti-depressants-Alcohol

11. Remain Hydrated

One counsel you'll generally get before leaving for your excursion is: Stay hydrated! In the event that you need to maintain a strategic distance from the problem of searching for spots to purchase the water bottle from, at that point simply keep a reusable one which you can likewise tie on your rucksack. Lightweight, sealed, sifted water jug would be an incredible choice. The channel in your container is vital as it evacuates unsafe microscopic organisms like E.Coli, Giardia and Cryptosporidium oocysts and numerous other waterborne contaminants. stay-hydrated

12. Save Parts You've Got To Carry

An extra bicycle key, save bungee lines, save combine, additional chain lock, save grasp, and quickening agent link, chain lube, on the off chance that cylinder tire, at that point one extra cylinder, motor oil to top up and an extra front light bulb. Rent bike in leh, leh is the most beautifull part of Jammu and Kashmir.

13. Convey Cash

You can't depend on your cards since there're places where you probably won't discover an ATM effectively and cards probably won't be worthy at all neighborhood shops and road merchants.

14. Defensive Biking Gear For Safety

Make sure to have your wellbeing gear prepared for the excursion protective caps, knee and elbow monitors, weatherproof gloves, shoes and appropriate riding coat, intelligent dress, shades to spare your eyes from UV rays.safety-gears

15. Telephone Connectivity

Just post-paid cell phone associations from different states work in Ladakh. Indeed, even from these just BSNL has a nearness past Leh. Except if you are reliant on STD Booths, go for a BSNL/MTNL postpaid association. It's essential to keep your family or a couple of companions refreshed about your area each 6-7 hours as it's an erratic ride and troublesome circumstances can win.

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75 Mind-Blowing McDonald’s Facts

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The Inception and the Legacy

1. Seventy-five years ago, in 1940, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald opened up the first McDonald’s restaurant—a BBQ joint—in San Bernardino, California (at left; it’s now a museum). Eight years later, they switched to burgers, shakes, potato chips, and pie. The McDonalds purchased several Multi-mixers for use in their establishment, and when Multi-mixer salesman Ray Kroc visited, he was impressed by their success and efficiency. Kroc purchased franchise rights from the brothers. In 1955, he opened his first franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois. Looking for more McDonald’s facts? This is the first McDonald’s menu ever.

2. McDonald’s first drive-thru opened in 1975 in Sierra Vista, Arizona. What inspired the then-revolutionary concept? The restaurant was located near a military base, and soldiers were not allowed to leave their cars while wearing fatigues. Check out how the McDonald’s menu has changed throughout the years.

3. There are almost more than one-and-half times more McDonald’s locations than hospitals in the United States: 14,350 versus 10,660. Find out the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald’s.

4. All those dimes and pennies do add up: In 2013, Ronald McDonald House Charities—the nonprofit organization that is McDonald’s charity of choice—raised around $450 million. It used those funds to help nearly 9 million children and their families worldwide. Today, RMHC has nearly 300 local chapters in 58 countries and regions.

5. McDonald’s invested in Chipotle in 1998, back when the fast-Mexican chain consisted of 16 restaurants. By 2006, McDonald’s owned 90 percent of Chipotle—which had grown to 500 locations—but it sold its stake in order to focus on McDonald’s.

6. The average McDonald’s drive-thru transaction took roughly three minutes, or 189.49 seconds, according to one recent study; the fast-food leader was Wendy’s with a 133.63-second turnaround time.

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McDonald’s Facts: All About the Arches

7. The Golden Arches are said to be the most recognized symbol in the world, even ahead of the cross. By the way, this is the drink you should never order at a McDonald’s, according to an employee.

8. Founder Richard McDonald first sketched the Golden Arches as an architectural feature to attract customers in cars looking from the roadside, but it took five more years for the arches to be linked into an M (shown at right, at a present-day restaurant in Downey, California, the oldest one still in operation). Did you know there might be a hidden sexual meaning behind McDonald’s gold arches?

9. At its Paris Champs-Elysees restaurant, McDonald’s typically yellow Golden Arches are neon white to blend in with the lighting of that location. This is the real reason the logo is yellow and red.

10. The McDonald’s in Sedona, Arizona, has the world’s only turquoise arches—the owners of that franchise were told that they needed to make the location more in keeping with the distinct desert environment. The blue was chosen to echo the sky, and the building is more orange and red to resemble the surrounding terrain. Read more about it here.

McDonald’s Facts from Around the World

11. While many international McDonald’s look the same as their American counterparts, their menus contain unique items that reflect local tastes. Some examples: nurnburger, or three bratwursts on a bun (Germany); creamy stars, or deep-fried star-shaped pieces of cheese (Italy); McFalafel and McKebab (Israel); McSpaghetti, or pasta served with Chicken McNuggets on the side (Philippines); McRice burger, or a burger in which rice patties are used instead of a bun (Singapore); quiche de quejo, or cheese quiche (Brazil); red bean pie (Hong Kong); McAloo Tikki burger, or a spiced-potato burger (India). Pssst: There’s a reason why Coke tastes so much better at McDonald’s.

12. Samuel Jackson’s character came pretty close in Pulp Fiction: a Quarter Pounder in France is called a Royal Cheese, not a Royale with Cheese. This is the McDonald’s with the best menu in the world.

13. Since 1996, skiers have been able to schuss into the world’s only ski-thru McDonald’s in the Lindvallen resort area in Sweden.

14. Many people probably wish they could dine on McDonald’s on a flight instead of airline food; for now, they’ll have to settle for dining at a New Zealand McDonald’s, which includes an actual retired aircraft as part of the restaurant.

15. Nations that have placed a ban on McDonald’s include Bermuda, Montenegro, Kazahstan, and Macedonia. Here are more countries that have banned McDonald’s.

16. In all the world, there is one floating McDonald’s. Known as the McBarge, it’s in Vancouver, Canada. It was built for and served food at the 1986 World’s Fair, but it is now abandoned. Perhaps it should open as a sail-thru?

17. The Queen of England owns approximately $11 billion of real estate in the United Kingdom; among her holdings is a McDonald’s near Buckingham Palace. So far, she has yet to dine there—but she may be more of a drive-thru type.

18. Golden wedding arches: McDonald’s in Hong Kong offers a variety of wedding packages. The deluxe package, which costs around $1,200, includes a two-hour rental of a decorated McDonald’s location, 50 invitations, McDonald’s gifts for 50 guests, a pair of McDonald’s balloon wedding rings, a bridal bouquet, apple pie display, and an emcee.

19. In the U.K., McDonald’s has launched a program to recycle its employees’ uniforms. Some of the material will be re-spun into fiber to make new uniforms; the rest will be shredded and used to stuff mattresses.

20. In another innovation, McDonald’s Hungary and the advertising agency DDB Budapest recently unveiled the BagTray: a paper bag that has a reinforced cardboard tray at its bottom. By ripping off a strip of the bag, you can detach a sturdy tray.

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McDonald’s Facts: Menu Mania

21. McDonald’s best-selling menu item is … French fries! Check out the 10 most popular items at McDonald’s.

22. But it took nine years for fries to appear on the restaurant menu (they debuted in 1949); before that, only potato chips were available. This is the secret ingredient behind the addictive flavor of McDonald’s fries.

23. You don’t need a passport to try exotic McDonald’s offerings. In some parts of America, McDonald’s restaurants sell their own specialty items. In the summer, you can get a McLobster roll at restaurants in New England. But Hawaii takes the prize: Choices include Saimin, a Hawaiian noodle soup with fish cake, nori, char siu pork, and sliced scrambled eggs; a taro-root pie; and a breakfast platter with Spam or Portuguese sausage as the meat options.

24. A McDonald’s franchise owner in Monfort Heights, Ohio noticed that residents in his highly Catholic town did not eat hamburgers or cheeseburgers during Lent so he created a meat-free alternative, the Filet-o-Fish, which swam onto menus in 1962. Today, 23 percent of all Filet-o-Fish sales are thought to occur during Lent.

25. The fish in the filet was originally halibut; now it’s wild-caught Atlantic pollock.

26. The chain’s worst-selling item may have been the Hula burger. Invented by Ray Kroc as a meatless alternative for Catholics on Lent, it consisted of a grilled piece of pineapple with a slice of cheese in a bun. It lasted a brief while in 1962. Here are the failed McDonald’s menu items you’ve probably never heard of.

27. McDonald’s McGriddle was invented by product developer Tom Ryan because he wanted a handheld breakfast item that was both sweet and savory. He is the Dr. Frankenstein of fast food. In an earlier job at Pizza Hut, he created stuffed-crust pizza and the Meat Lovers, Veggie Lovers, and Cheese Lovers pizzas. He is now the founder and chief concept officer at Smashburger.

28. Franchisee Herb Peterson created the Egg McMuffin, which became available in 1971, by modeling it off his breakfast of choice, eggs benedict. This is the only McDonald’s Breakfast made with fresh eggs.

29. Some discerning diners believe that the Coke served at McDonald’s tastes better than it does at other places. They may be onto something: Only at McDonald’s is the Coke syrup delivered in stainless steel tanks to preserve its freshness; elsewhere, it’s transported in plastic bags.

30. At a grand total of 1,880 calories, the 40-piece Chicken McNuggets are the highest calorie item on the regular menu. That’s more calories than many adults should consume in a single day. Find out the 5 healthiest things you can order at a McDonald’s.

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31. The number of ingredients in Chicken McNuggets? 40, which is low compared to the ingredient list for the McRib, which has 70. By the way, this is why McNuggets always come in one of four shapes.

32. The McRib, which debuted in the chain’s restaurants in 1981, was invented in part because chicken farmers couldn’t keep up with the demand for McNuggets.

33. There are no ribs in McRib; it’s a patty made from pork shoulder meat.

34. The McRib was removed from the McDonald’s menu in 1985 due to its lack of popularity. But thanks to a loyal cult following, it came back in 1989 and was offered until 2005 in the chain’s restaurants in much of the world. From 2006 on, it’s been available for a few months every year. However, all along it has been a menu staple in one country: Germany.

35. According to Reddit users, you can get a Big Mac for half the price if you order a McDouble without mustard or ketchup and add shredded lettuce and special sauce. The only difference will be the lack of a third bun.

36. Those in the know say that McDonald’s has a secret menu. The most popular items include the McLeprechaun shake (a chocolate shake mixed with their seasonal Shamrock Shake), the McKinley Mac (a Big Mac made with quarter-pounder patties), and the Land, Air, and Sea burger (a McChicken patty, beef patty and Filet-o-Fish patty combined). Here are the McDonald’s secret menu items you need to know.

37. In an effort to provide a more customized experience, the “Create Your Taste” initiative allows diners to use tablet-like kiosks to pick different buns, cheeses, toppings, and sauces for their burger. It’s expected to roll out at 2,000 locations in the United States this year, or about one in seven McDonald’s in the United States.

38. Customer Moshe Tamssot posted a YouTube video that showed him creating the biggest burger possible with a “Create Your Taste.” Although he was limited to two quarter-pound beef patties, he was able to add 10 times all the other ingredients. His sandwich was topped by 10 slices of bacon, 30 slices of cheese, and 10 servings of guacamole, tomato, pickles, lettuce, mushrooms, jalapeno peppers, raw onions, and grilled onions (not to mention a variety of sauces). The sandwich weighed 3.8 pounds and cost $24.89. We believe he is still digesting it.

39. In a one-off event in 2013, McDonald’s challenged celebrity chefs to deploy McDonald’s ingredients to create a “McGourmet” meal. Guests at the NYC dinner enjoyed kung pao chicken (made with Chicken McNuggets and sweet-and-sour sauce), a tortilla espanola (hash browns and eggs), slow-cooked beef with blueberry pomegranate sauce (the chain’s blueberry-pomegranate smoothie) and gnocchi (French fries!), and washed it all down with mojitos (mango pineapple smoothie).

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Ronald McDonald Facts

40. While there are disputes about who invented the Ronald McDonald character, Willard Scott—who later became famous for being The Today Show weatherman— was the first to portray him in TV ads.

41. Scott was fired from being Ronald McDonald after he was deemed to be “too fat.”

42. In Japan, the character is known as Donald McDonald, due to the lack of a clear “R” sound in Japanese.

43. The original Ronald McDonald wore a yellow-and-red striped suit, which he often accessorized with wearing a tray bearing a hamburger, fries, and milkshake as a hat.

44. Ronald’s newest wardrobe, which debuted last summer, consists of yellow cargo pants and a vest and a red-and-white striped rugby shirt; on special occasions, he tops it all with a red blazer emblazoned with golden arches on the front pocket. His new look was created by theatrical costume designer Ann Hould-Ward, who won a Tony for Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast.

45. In 2005, a man from Manchester, New Hampshire, robbed a Wendy’s. His name? Ronald MacDonald. Learn which McDonald’s is the most expensive McDonald’s in the world.

McDonald’s Facts: Crime, Punishment, and Some Bizarre Lawsuits

46. Shaneka Torres of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is currently serving a three-to-seven-year prison sentence after she was convicted of shooting a bullet in a McDonald’s drive-thru window after she failed to receive bacon on her burger. She has also been banned from the restaurant for life.

47. In 2014, a McDonald’s customer sued the company for $1.5 million after claiming to suffer “undue mental anguish” after he received only one napkin with his order. This is why McDonald’s ice cream machines are always broken.

48. After starring in a McDonald’s-bashing ad for Burger King, the then-4-year-old actress Sarah Michelle Gellar was named in a lawsuit by the fast food giant—and was banned from McDonald’s.

49. While the best-known McDonald’s lawsuit in America is the one involving scalding coffee, the company is known in the U.K. for a different legal matter. In 1994, two members of the London Greenpeace group were sued by McDonald’s for distributing pamphlets that claimed the company was responsible for hunger in the Third World, deforestation, food poisoning, cruel treatment of animals, and paying low wages. The trial—dubbed the McLibel case—still stands as the longest in English history at 300 days, generating 20,000 pages of trial transcripts. The defendants were found guilty of making some libelous statements and ordered to pay a fine. But in 2005, they brought their case to the European Court, which declared that the case was in breach of the right to a fair trial and right to freedom of expression (mainly due to the unavailability of legal aid for the Greenpeace members).

50. Children’s television producers Sid and Marty Kroftt sued McDonald’s in 1973, saying that McDonaldland ripped off the “concept and feel” of their TV show H.R. Pufnstuf. McDonald’s was ordered to pay the brothers one million dollars.

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McDonald’s Facts: Amazing Feats

51. In the Guinness Book of World Records, one record is unlikely to be beaten anytime soon: “Most Big Macs Consumed.” When Don Gorske of Wisconsin set the record in 2008, he’d already consumed 22,477 sandwiches. But since he eats two a day, he’s had over 27,500 of them by now. He had his first at age 18 in 1972 (it cost 49 cents). He liked the sandwich so much that after eating it, he had eight more of them—for a one-day total of nine, a limit he has never exceeded. Both his weight and cholesterol are said to be normal.

52. The world’s largest Big Mac can be found in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, at the Big Mac Museum (which bills itself “the most tasteful museum in the world”). While the mega-Mac is inedible—it’s a 14-foot-tall statue—hungry visitors can eat the real thing at the on-premises McDonald’s restaurant.

53. Mike Fountaine holds the record for owning the most McDonald’s related memorabilia. His 75,000-item collection—which includes buttons, uniforms, cups, and Happy Meal boxes and toys—spills over nine rooms of his Pennsylvania home. In 1968, a then-15-year-old Fountaine began working at the Golden Arches and began his collection one year later. Today he owns two McDonald’s restaurants.

54. The world’s largest McDonald’s PlayPlace is in the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida. It includes a 500 gallon aquarium, waterfall, and 100 arcade games.

55. A limited edition—one out of 200 produced in the world—500 ml bottle of McDonald’s Big Mac Special Sauce sold in Australia on eBay this year for $20,600 in Australian dollars, or around $16,144 US. One hundred percent of the profits went to Ronald McDonald House Charities.

56. But the ingredients in the special sauce are no longer secret. According to the company website, it contains soybean oil, pickle relish, distilled vinegar, water (main components); egg yolks, onion powder, mustard seed, salt, garlic powder, vegetable protein, caramel color, paprika and turmeric extracts (for flavor and color); high fructose corn syrup, sugar (for sweetness); sodium benzoate, calcium disodium EDTA (for preservation of color and taste); propylene glycol alginate, mustard bran, soy lecithin (for thickness and creaminess).

57. In 2012, Rebekah Speight of Nebraska auctioned off a truly one-of-a-kind possession on eBay: a chicken McNugget that resembled George Washington. The winning bid was $8,100, which Speight planned to donate to her church’s youth camp. At the time of sale, the nugget was already three years old. In general, eBay bans the sale of expired food products, but the company made an exception.

58. McDonald’s is the world’s largest distributor of toys. It gives away around 1.5 billion toys each year with Happy Meals.

59. Jamaican runner Usain Bolt claims to have eaten around 1,000 chicken McNuggets during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where McDonald’s had an outpost in the Olympic Village. It was the lunch (or dinner) of champions: At those games, he won three gold medals and set three world records. This is the secret that makes their apple pies taste so good.

McDonald’s Facts All About the Employees

60. One in eight U.S. workers has been employed by McDonald’s at some point in their careers. These are the secrets McDonald’s employees won’t tell you.

61. Famous former employees of McDonald’s include Rachel McAdams, Pink, Macy Gray, Jay Leno, Carl Lewis, Jeff Bezos, and Andie MacDowell.

62. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “McJob” is “an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector.” McDonald’s threatened to sue to change the definition, but ultimately responded with a clever U.K. ad campaign that extolled the company’s employee benefits. It ended with the line: “Not bad for a McJob.” This is how much McDonald’s workers really make.

63. On a corporate level, McDonald’s has some pretty spectacular benefits. Employees get an extra week of paid time off in the years when they reach an anniversary ending with a “5” (5, 15, 25, etc.). They’re eligible for an eight-week paid sabbatical for every 10 years worked.

64. In 1961, the company opened Hamburger University to train its executive employees; today, there are more than 2750,000 graduates. The original campus is in Oak Brook, Illinois, where McDonald’s is headquartered. Other campuses are in Tokyo, London, Sydney, Munich, Sao Paolo and Shanghai. All together around the world, Hamburger U. employs more than 60 full-time college professors.

65. McDonald’s holds its own version of American Idol. Called the Voice of McDonald’s, the competition shines the spotlight on the vocal talent of its 1.8 million employees. In its most recent contest, 58,000 McWorkers from 63 countries entered. Lucy Ospitia of Bucaramanga, Colombia, won the $25,000 grand prize. Rocky Rosabal from the Philippines won second prize ($17,500); third prize ($12,500) went to Ashlae Nelms from Illinois.

A Pop Culture Icon

66. The Economist created the “Big Mac Index” in 1986 as a shorthand way to determine whether a country’s currency is inflated. The index uses the international prices of a Big Mac, a globally available food product, to illustrate the differences in monetary value between nations. It’s still referenced today. In January, the average price for a Big Mac was $4.79 in the America and $7.54 in Switzerland. (All prices are in U.S. dollars.) Russia and Ukraine were among the cheapest places at which to buy a Big Mac, $1.36 and $1.20, respectively.

67. In the 2003 documentary Super Size Me, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock chronicled his 30-day, all-McDonald’s diet. At month’s end, Spurlock had gained 25 pounds, sent his cholesterol sky-rocketing, and caused serious harm to his liver. McDonald’s removed Super Size fries and drinks from its menu six weeks after the film’s release, although it said Super Size Me did not influence its decision.

68. The “I’m Lovin’ It” McDonald’s jingle was written by Pharell and recorded by Justin Timberlake.

69. Ottawa Senators goalie Andrew Hammond is nicknamed Hamburglar. How he earned it: A fan threw a burger on the ice at Hammond after a recent win (in 12 starts, he’d amassed an impressive 10-0-1 record); the goalie graciously accepted it but did not eat it because he said it was too cold. To ensure that he always has access to a hot burger, Hammond received—courtesy of McDonald’s in Canada—a special card that entitles him to a lifetime of free eats.

70. Octogenarians Carl and Barbara Becker of Virginia were regulars at their local McDonald’s, where they liked stopping in for “scrunch”—a snack between lunch and supper. One day, an employee was sweeping up near them, and when asked if it bothered them, the couple answered that it did. A manager then told the Beckers that they’d exceeded their allowed 30 minutes in the restaurant and had to leave. The Beckers wrote a heartfelt letter to their local paper in which Carl explained how the incident had marred their McDonald’s ritual. For the pair, scrunch is “a sweet time of fellowship, which we enjoy, which helps sustain our marriage of 63 years,” wrote Carl. In response, McDonald’s corporate offices sent the couple coupons for two small coffees. The Beckers refused them but said they’d still patronize the chain—just not the Culpeper location.

71. The Beckers were not left burger-less, however. Shawn Moss, who owns Shawn’s Smokehouse BBQ restaurant in Culpeper, was so moved when he heard about the couple’s experience that he offered them one free “scrunch” a week for the rest of their lives.

72. In 2014, 18-year-old Stian Ytterdahl from Norway had a tattoo artist ink a McDonald’s receipt onto his arm after his friends dared him; a week later, he had the same receipt tattooed on his other arm. For the rest of his life, he’ll always know what he ate at 7:36 PM on March 24, 2014: a Coke, three cheeseburgers, a cheeseburger Happy Meal, a McFlurry NonStop with three extra toppings, and an extra Happy Meal toy. This is why you should always ask for your receipt at McDonald’s.

73. At the McDonald’s online shop, customers in the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Australia can purchase Big Mac-patterned pajamas, wallpaper, long underwear, rain boots, dog coat, and (human) bedding.

74. Scientists studying McDonald’s patrons found that female diners ate less when they were eating in mixed-sex groups rather than in same-sex groups, while male diners ate more in mixed-sex groups than in mixed-sex pairs, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Health Psychology.

75. While only McDonald’s is on Twitter (with more than 2.8 million followers), both McDonald’s and Ronald McDonald have Instagram accounts. McDonald’s boasts 565,000 followers to Ronald’s 10,900.

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EBTH + Boston: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Boston

The City on a Hill, The Athens of America, The Cradle of Liberty: whatever you call it, Boston is an undeniably important part of American history. The city hosted events that made America a reality, including the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Bunker Hill; and while visitors are sure to walk The Freedom Trail and visit the US Constitution, there is much more to Boston than American history.

The 10 fascinating facts about Boston listed below will give you a deeper look into what makes this city so compelling.

1. There is a Boston in England

Boston may be a symbol of American independence and culture, but its name is derived from a town in England. This is true of many American cities, where early settlers named their new homes after the places they left behind.

2. Boston Witnessed the Largest Art Heist Ever

For a city that’s well-known for its history and art, it's perhaps little surprise to discover Boston is the location of the largest art heist in history. On March 18, 1990, two thieves disguised themselves as police officers, talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, overpowered the guards, and stole 13 art pieces with an estimated total value of $500 million. Police have never recovered any of the stolen art.

3. It's a Beacon of Light

Boston is a beacon of light in more ways than one. It was once home to America's first lighthouse, built on Little Brewster Island in 1716. The original lighthouse is gone, but its replacement from 1783 is the second-oldest working lighthouse in the United States.

4. It Has a Sweet History

Here's a bite-sized fact for anybody with a sweet tooth: Boston is home to the United States' first ever chocolate factory. In 1765 John Hannon and Dr. James Baker established the Baker-Hannon factory in the Lower Mills section in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. The company is better remembered as the Baker Chocolate Company due to a name change following Hannon's mysterious disappearance in the West Indies in 1779. The factory stayed operational until 1965 when production relocated to Delaware.

5. It's a City of World Records

200 Clarendon, formerly called the John Hancock Tower, is the tallest building in Boston (in fact, the tallest building in New England), standing 790 feet high. In 1988, Paul Tavilla claimed the world record for catching grapes in the mouth at distance when he caught a grape released from the tower at 788 feet. His previous best was in 1986, when he caught a grape at just over 660 feet at the Somatomo Insurance Building in Tokyo. The city even holds the world record for most people wearing tie-dye in one place — and that's not to mention the racing-specific records set during the famed Boston Marathon.

6. The Statue in Harvard Yard Isn't John Harvard

The statue in Harvard Yard is a monument to education, and also a monument to little lies. For a start, nobody knows what John Harvard looked like, so when Daniel Chester French created the statue in 1884, he got a student named Sherman Hoar to model for the head. John Harvard never attended the university but he did donate half of his estate and library, making him the first major benefactor.

7. Harvard Wasn't Founded in 1638

John Harvard's statue states the founding date of the university as 1638, but that's not true either. The establishment dates back to 1636, making it the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Additionally, although the inscription on the statue credits John Harvard as the founder, it was actually established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

8. It's Where Edgar Allan Poe Started His Career

Writer and master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe was a native Bostonian. He self-published his first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poems" in 1827, crediting the work to "A Bostonian" rather than using his real name. He subsequently published the poems under his own name, making copies of the early book incredibly rare. One sold at auction in December 2009 for $662,500, a record sum for any work of American literature.

9. There Was a Flood in 1919

When you hear there was a flood in Boston, you may imagine Boston Harbor under a deluge of Atlantic sea water. However, the flood that occurred on January 15, 1919 was actually a wave of molasses, 25 feet tall and 100 yards wide, which covered two city blocks within seconds. The event occurred after a storage tank containing more than 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst, flooding the North End. The gooey substance claimed the lives of 21 people and several horses, injured more than 100 other people and flattened buildings, including a fire station.

10. The Boston Tea Party Wasn't an Isolated Incident

Everybody knows about the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773, when demonstrators destroyed a shipment of East India Company tea in protest of the Tea Act. During the protest, more than 92,000 pounds of tea went into Boston Harbor, which is enough tea to fill 18.5 million teabags. However, this wasn't the only tea-based demonstration. Three months later, in March 1774, 60 men dumped 30 chests of tea that were on board the ship Fortune. This smaller act of defiance garnered significantly less attention.

Bring a Piece of Boston Home

Boston is a fascinating and culturally significant city with a storied history that makes it a wellspring of items ranging from books to colonial-era furniture. Shopping on EBTH is a wonderful way for collectors and social historians to acquire rare and vintage items and to learn more about the city that helped to make America great. You can shop new discoveries every day.

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