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Category: Weird

What Does Your Fridge Say About You?

Photographer Mark Menjivar traveled the states for 3 years for his “You Are What You Eat” project, meeting people and documenting their lives from a surprisingly interesting viewpoint -their refrigerators. Could you tell the picture above belonged to a bartender who goes to sleep at 8 AM and wakes up a 4 PM every day? The series is fascinating in what it says about the people involved and what it makes you think about your own fridge.

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Hershey’s Website Hacked, Recipe Changed

I’m not sure which is worse, the fact that someone hacked Hershey’s website and only changed a recipe or the how seriously the company is taking it (the recipe change, not the hack).

Dear Hershey Consumer, At Hershey, we are committed to open communications with our consumers and other stakeholders. As a result, we want to take a moment to inform you about a recent incident and the steps we took to correct it. We recently discovered that an unauthorized individual accessed one of our websites and altered one of our baking recipes. As you know, Hershey’s recipes are built on our legacy of offering the highest-quality products for more than 100 years. Consumers rely on us for this information, and we take the quality of our baking and cooking recipes very seriously.

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Chinese Couple Sells Their Kids to Fund Gaming Habit

The strangest news comes out of China. According to ABC News, a Chinese couple sold their three children to use the money they made from the sale in video games.

Sanxiang City News reported that the parents, both under the age of 21, sold their kids to fund their gaming habit at internet cafes, where they played games. In 2009, Li Lin and Li Juan sold their second child, a baby girl, for less than $500. Girls being worth less than boys in China, they decided to go all in and sold their first child, a boy, for $4600. Their third child, also a boy, was sold for the same amount.

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