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Nickelodeon Slime, Hooters Air, counterintelligence training... just a few of the important matters we cover here at Work Talk. Heat up some leftovers, sit back, and enjoy. |
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As the Office Microwave, I keep an ear to the streets and hear the best conversation topics for your work friends, for your boss, for your latest client, and everyone in between. Here is this week’s totally not boring Work Talk. |
TLDR: Shoppers for the White House chef have to alternate between random stores in the D.C. area to protect the First Family. |
TikTok sometimes gets a bad wrap for making people dumber, but over the weekend a creator on the app taught me something interesting.
When the president and his family get food at the White House, they typically can’t get it catered or delivered. So, the White House chef sends shoppers who must select random stores in the D.C. area in order to protect them from being poisoned.
Meanwhile, the kitchen staff are under constant surveillance from the U.S. government, while also being trained in counterintelligence in case they are spied on by foreign adversaries.
(This information comes courtesy of Chef Andre Rush, the extremely jacked White House cook who has to balance all that extra work with his rigorous workout plan and 8,000-calorie daily diet)
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TLDR: The old recipe for Nickelodeon's slime was leaked in 2017. |
In 2017, game show personality Marc Summers, who used to host the show Double Dare on Nickelodeon, quietly leaked some high-level intel we’ve all been dying to know since the 90s and 00s: The recipe for Nickelodeon slime.
The network’s flagship substance was born in 1982 on a kids’ sketch comedy show called You Can’t Do That on Television. Before the debut of hit shows like SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents, the network found a brand identity in slime and the “splat” logo it inspired.
If you’re ready to give up on your dream of winning a Kids’ Choice Award, all hope isn’t lost. You could still get slimed. The recipe is… - oatmeal
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3 cups of applesauce
- 4 cups of vanilla pudding
- 3-4 drops of green food coloring
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TLDR: The Swissness Act prevents companies from using Switzerland's likeness in branding, unless a percentage of the product is produced there. |
Soon, the chocolate bar Toblerone will be legally required to remove its Matterhorn logo. Because Toblerone’s parent company, Mondelez International, is moving parts of production to Bratislava, Slovakia, it must fall in line with the Swissness Act. This 2017 legislation prohibits brands from using Switzerland's likeness to market products, unless a percentage of manufacturing happens in Switzerland. Under the law, milk-based products with Swiss themes must be made exclusively in the country, meaning Toblerone’s iconic mountain logo and “of Switzerland” tagline have got to go.
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Here are “25 Tweets That Changed the World” according to The New York Times.
Here’s the story of how HBO and Showtime passed on Schitt’s Creek before it became a Netflix classic, shared via Adam Ryan.
The Wolf taught me that when FedeEx had only $5,000 in the bank but owed a $24,000 jet fuel bill, its founder saved the company by playing blackjack.
For some reason, the story above reminded me of the short-lived Hooters Air airline.
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