12 Days of Cheese, Fried Chicken Fireplace Log, French Fry Shortage [12/2/2019 – 12/8/2019]
Whole Foods’ 12 Days of Cheese sale starts this week – and the list of featured cheeses is pretty great! The carefully curated list includes many high-end kinds of cheese, as well as a few Whole Foods exclusives. A different cheese will be half price each day of the sale, so it’s the perfect time to stock up for all those holiday charcuterie boards! The sale runs from December 12th ends on the 23rd.
Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker is just days away from release, and Coke has come out with the best Star Wars-themed product: light-up lightsaber Coke bottles! Coke engineers covered the bottles in a paper-thin OLED panel complete with a battery pack that makes Rey or Kylo Ren’s lightsaber illuminate when touched. The caveat is that there are only 8,000 of these bottles and they are only available in Singapore.
The KFC chicken-scented fireplace log is back by popular demand. Last year, the chicken chain sold out of the logs three hours after posting them on their website. After receiving numerous weekly calls, they decided to bring it back! KFC is touting the log as an environmentally sustainable alternative to natural firewood, which is a good thing unless you can’t stand the smell of 11 secret herbs and spices. You can find the log at Walmart for a limited time.
Ever wonder what it’s like to eat like the royal family? Chef Darren McGrady, who prepared daily meals and designed private events for the royals from 1982-1998, has penned a cookbook called Eating Royally; Recipes and Remembrances from a Palace Kitchen. The cookbook contains many Windsor family food traditions, the nine foods her majesty won’t eat (garlic!?!), and even includes the full Christmas Day spread! A perfect gift for the anglophile in your life.
There is a French fry shortage in the United States right now and nobody is talking about it. A burst of unseasonably cold wet weather in September and October has damaged the long potato crop in places like Idaho, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Collectively, these places make up about 18% of the potato crop in North America. Under-producing and damaged crops have forced retailers to import potatoes from other countries, so we will likely see a sharp rise in the price of potatoes over the next few months.