Once upon a time an immigrant from somewhere worked very hard at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in New York City. He did so well that he opened his own Kentucky Fried Chicken. He did not ask anyone, he just opened it. Red & white stripes, biscuits the whole nine years.
KFC found out (I would like to think it was many years later). He had to change the name to Kennedy Fried Chicken.
He opened one or two Kennedy Fried Chickens locations in the city. He hired hard-working immigrants who went on to open their own locations without asking him. Now there are probably a hundred or more Kennedy Fried chicken places all over the world. Including London. He is trying to get them to pay royalties.
I was looking for cooking oil on the Costco website and discovered that one can purchase four 55-gallon drums of olive oil for just under $4,000. Who on earth can use that much olive oil before it goes rancid?
Could be a company that produces flavored olive oils (like the ones you see at farmers’ markets and specialty stores). That’s only 1760 pints. Or a soap manufacturer.
It says at the website:
Industrial use for food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical manufacturing
We always hear about how the monarch of the Commonwealth countries (Elizabeth II) would never refuse royal assent and likewise her governor-generals wouldn’t. Today while prowling around Wikipedia, I found out that Royal Assent has been withheld in Her Majesty’s name in 1937 by Alberta Lieutenant-Governor John Bowen using his vice-regal perogative.
The World’s Oldest Hotel Has Been Operating Since 705 A.D.
The Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Yamanashi, Japan, holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest hotel in the world. The hot-spring hotel sits at the foot of the stunning Akaishi Mountains and has been in operation since it was founded by Fujiwara Mahito in 705 A.D. Since then, it’s been in the hands of some 52 generations of the same family for more than 1,300 years.
I just learned that in baseball, the American League almost dissolved in the wake of the Black Sox scandal. The Yankees, Red Sox, and White Sox (called “The Insurrectos” because they hated League President Ban Johnson) had all agreed to join the National League and there were plans to put a National League team in Detroit if no other AL team joined. However, they changed their minds when the other teams met with them without Ban Johnson.
Even after the crisis, other AL teams refused to trade players with the Insurrectos. It why Babe Ruth went to the Yankees; no other AL team other than the White Sox would trade with them (interleague trades were very difficult to set up, since players had to go through league waivers). The White Sox also negotiated a trade for Ruth – giving up Shoeless Joe Jackson but less cash. The rumors of Jackson’s involvement with the Black Sox Scandal made the Red Sox wary.
I know jack shit about the royal family, but even I know this is wrong. In 1937 Liz would have been 11 or 12 (had to look that up) - the withholding would have been in His Majesty’s name (knew it was a George because I watched The King’s Speech [reluctantly, with Mrs Trep]), but got the number wrong. I guessed IV, it’s actually VI.
Close to thirty years ago, I was visiting a couple of friends in the Cambridge area. We were on the road someplace late one evening and watched another driver make a right turn on red, a very immediate U-turn followed by a second right turn on red, effectively jumping the light, kind-of, sort-of legally.
Left turn on red is legal in New York – under certain circumstances. It’s allowed when two one-way streets meet. Doesn’t happen often, but I have used it.
