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Interesting trivia thread
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Never seen one of those
Unusual boxes and 7,000-year-old trove found locked in ice
Scientists find artifacts that further identify the archeological and cultural significance of the land encompassed within Mount Edziza Park.
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There are currently over 5500 Star Link satellites in orbit with another 40,000 planned !!!
Camels born with an extra hump are called Humfrey
They are upsetting a lot of astronomers as they distract from looking at real shooting stars etc
I buy this product when I can in France or sometimes at home too. I never knew the story behind the Bonne Maman jams and preserves.
Walmart and Costco carry this jam and I felt that this story needed to be shared and you will feel the need to too
*The incident took place in a supermarket in New Jersey. The tweet is by Michael Perino @ProfessorPerino*
“At the supermarket today, I found a small, elderly woman standing in front of a high shelf holding @BonneMamanUS preserves. She was having trouble finding the flavor she wanted because the jars were set back on the shelf.
She couldn’t read the labels. She could barely reach them. I offered to help.
After I handed her the raspberry preserves, she thanked me, paused, and then asked, “Do you know why I buy this brand?”
I laughed and replied, “Because it tastes good?”
“Yes, it tastes good.” She paused again. “I am a Holocaust survivor.”
This was not the conversation I expected on a Sunday grocery run. “During the war, the family that owns the company hid my family in Paris. So now I always buy it. And whenever I go to the store, my grandkids remind me, ‘Bubbe, don’t forget to buy the jelly.’”
I told her that that was the best reason I ever heard to buy any company’s product. And then we both smiled behind our masks and went our separate ways.”
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Someone else on Twitter looked into the story and indeed, the town that Andros Company, the makers of Bonne Maman, comes from, hid and saved Jewish families in WW2. It was called Biars sur Cere, which then had about 800 villagers.
From an article, “You have to understand what it was like then. There were posters on the walls, from the Nazis and from the collaborators, and they said that if you are found to help a Jew, a freemason, a communist, a socialist, or a pervert, you will be shot on sight.” Despite the great danger in which helping them put the villagers in, still they kept the children safe.”
A good reason to buy Bonne Maman products. And a poignant reminder that when we look out for each other it can change lives, and that there are good and selfless people in the world.
Bonne Maman!
read more - https://viralquill.com/winging-love...s-surprise-for-his-flight-attendant-daughter/
more stories - 1 min stories
Walmart and Costco carry this jam and I felt that this story needed to be shared and you will feel the need to too
*The incident took place in a supermarket in New Jersey. The tweet is by Michael Perino @ProfessorPerino*
“At the supermarket today, I found a small, elderly woman standing in front of a high shelf holding @BonneMamanUS preserves. She was having trouble finding the flavor she wanted because the jars were set back on the shelf.
She couldn’t read the labels. She could barely reach them. I offered to help.
After I handed her the raspberry preserves, she thanked me, paused, and then asked, “Do you know why I buy this brand?”
I laughed and replied, “Because it tastes good?”
“Yes, it tastes good.” She paused again. “I am a Holocaust survivor.”
This was not the conversation I expected on a Sunday grocery run. “During the war, the family that owns the company hid my family in Paris. So now I always buy it. And whenever I go to the store, my grandkids remind me, ‘Bubbe, don’t forget to buy the jelly.’”
I told her that that was the best reason I ever heard to buy any company’s product. And then we both smiled behind our masks and went our separate ways.”
*****************************
Someone else on Twitter looked into the story and indeed, the town that Andros Company, the makers of Bonne Maman, comes from, hid and saved Jewish families in WW2. It was called Biars sur Cere, which then had about 800 villagers.
From an article, “You have to understand what it was like then. There were posters on the walls, from the Nazis and from the collaborators, and they said that if you are found to help a Jew, a freemason, a communist, a socialist, or a pervert, you will be shot on sight.” Despite the great danger in which helping them put the villagers in, still they kept the children safe.”
A good reason to buy Bonne Maman products. And a poignant reminder that when we look out for each other it can change lives, and that there are good and selfless people in the world.
Bonne Maman! read more - https://viralquill.com/winging-love...s-surprise-for-his-flight-attendant-daughter/
more stories - 1 min stories
Adjective for metal is metallic.But not so for iron - which is ironic.
The David/Bacharach hit ‘always something there to remind me’ that propelled the fabulous Sandie Shaw to stardom was inspired by a chance conversation that Bacharach had with a stranger in a a Greenwich Village coffee shop who had just broken up with his girlfriend….he subsequently found out that his ‘reminder’ was a touch of herpes.
It turns out the song was up to scratch
Hey, don’t be rash.
Of all the VW Beetles (the people’s car) made during the war none were sold to paying customers due to the poverty.
Don't get that?????
Not quite true…Adolf was taking advance payments from the populace but used the money to fund the war effort.
I remember crossing the coast and thinking ‘nearly there’…five hours later…!!!
Car made for ordinary people
Ordinary people couldn’t afford them
No ordinary person bought them
Don't you mean bug-ger off..?Thank you
Now you can beetle off with yourself