Yeah, they are models for a stock photographer - https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/antonio-guillem

It’s pretty funny because all three of the models in the distracted boyfriend meme are used in a bunch of situations

The walking girl is the girlfriend’s dentist

The couple works together and the fallout is awkward

The dentist tries to apologize to the girlfriend, but girlfriend only pretends to forgive her

Etc.

I live in Montana which isn’t quite the Midwest, but close. I checked my previous store in coastal California to see if that was what was making the difference, and the pizza is the same price there - Kroger branded $1.25 (Ralph’s in CA, Smith’s in MT)

There are frozen pizzas near me (a relatively expensive food area, for America), that cost $1.25 (~17c an ounce) and have almost 500 calories. I’m not advocating for the frozen pizza diet at all but that level of price/calorie ratio is pretty impressive.

Ciao also

It’s not even that specifically, at least in my family they latched onto the “resveratrol has health benefits” study, and expanded that to “red wine is healthy”

Like oh yeah cookies are healthy now because eggs have choline. So dumb.

He is actually a pretty amazing host - better than Alex was in some ways. Extremely personable with the contestants, funny, offers context on some clues because he knows so much, and you can tell the contestants have genuine respect for him because he’s been there and succeeded better than anyone.

Yes!

In fact you could do one better - it doesn’t need to make a profit, just break even, so you could either have lower prices, helping the community save money, or higher wages, helping the community spend money. But since it helps most people instead of a few people, it’s bad according to capitalism.