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two interesting statistics that i've heard recently:

- a kit-kat bar is consumed every 47 seconds in the UK.

- starbucks is on track to have 10,000 stores in the US by the year 2010. If they meet this goal, then one in five workers in america will be employed by starbucks. (mathematically, i can't get this one to work out, but i'm going to choose to believe it because it's just that scary.)

one interesting story that i can't get out of my head, and i know i'm going to use it in various conversations from here on out:

my friends jodie & adam live in southeast, and somehow got hooked up with this couple visiting from Cedarville, Ohio. they were recently married, still in school - and they had heard about portland from their online science fiction community and wanted to check it out, so they stayed with jodie & adam. um, apparently this girl from cedarville eats only five things. i'm not saying she ate five things while she was here, nor is she on some kind of five basic food group diet. all of her twenty-some years, she has only eaten the following:

1) beans from a can
2) corn from a can
3) french fries
4) ravioli
5) i don't remember what the fifth one was - so i'm going to pretend that it is meat from a can.

apparently her parents didn't force her to eat things that she didn't want to eat as a child - and now this is all that she eats. is that even possible? does anything happen to your body, biologically, if you only eat certain foods? if peter suddenly declared that he only ate food that was the color yellow or some such thing, i wonder how that would affect our relationship....

posted by jessica @ 10:36 AM