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Number of kilos of cocaine smuggled in a shipment of frozen onion rings. A 30-year-old Polish truck driver was found traveling from France in the United Kingdom with what appears to have been $44 million in drugs. The U.K.’s National Crime Agency posted a photo of the seizure on their official Twitter page. The tweet received comments. One user asked, “Serious question, what happens to the onion rings?”

Which food was reported in an April Fool’s hoax to supposedly grow on trees?

A. Spaghetti

B. Mushrooms

C. Rice

D. Turnips

The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute prank report which aired on April Fools’ Day in 1957 on the BBC current-affairs program Panorama. The broadcast showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree”. At the time spaghetti was relatively unknown in the U.K. The BBC told viewers they could grow their own spaghetti trees by “placing a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hoping for the best”. An estimated 8 million people watched the program and hundreds phoned in to question the authenticity of the story or to ask for more information about how they could grow their own.

Jalapeños and Rosé

In the Hot Pink department: it seems there’s a “trend” (if that’s the right word) among some rosé drinkers to plop sliced-up raw jalapeños into their glasses of rosé. (Gag). Why not just throw in… Continue reading

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