Hey, welcome back! It’s another Friday, which means it’s another chance for us to make you laugh or just take you by surprise. As always, we have gathered the strangest and weirdest retail news on the internet to kick off your weekend.
This week, restaurants at a popular, luxurious holiday destination in France are now expecting customers to fork over $5,000 just to reserve a table, and one frozen-pizza company is introducing a pie that comes with not only pineapples, but also pickles.
- Some restaurants in Saint Tropez are asking diners to cough up a minimum of $5,000 just to be able to reserve a table.
- Oscar Mayer has introduced a limited edition silicone “Hot Dog Straw” meant for sipping beverages.
- DiGiorno has taken the national debate about pineapple on pizza to a new level—by offering pizzas topped with pineapple…and pickles.
Our loyal newsletter readers will remember another odd bit of “news” that unfortunately wasn’t true. We said residents in one Michigan town are perplexed by a pack of giant rats infesting their houses and specifically drinking all of their wine, and while we so wanted the giant rats getting drunk to be true, did you consider the effort it takes a human to work a corkscrew?
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