(AP) – “Pan Solo”,that’s what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay
Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread sculpture of the “Star
Wars" character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in 
“The Empire Strikes Back."    

Hanalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan, co-owners of
One House Bakery in Benicia, California, spent weeks molding,
baking and assembling the life-sized sculpture using wood and
two types of dough, including a type of yeast less dough with a
higher sugar content that will last longer.

The two worked at night, after the day’s business was done. The sculpture is now on display outside of the bakery, located about
a half-hour’s drive north of San Francisco.

Unfortunately, Pan Solo won’t last forever. The dough eventually
will be composted, not eaten.

So, as a wise Jedi might warn: Don’t use the forks, Luke.

Harrison Ford as Han Solo.

On October 5, 1947, President Harry Truman (left/above) made the
first-ever televised presidential address from the White House,
asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to
help starving Europeans.

At the time of Truman’s food-conservation speech, Europe was
still recovering from World War II and suffering from famine.

Truman, the 33rd commander in chief, worried that if the U.S. didn’t provide food aid, his administration’s Marshall Plan for European economic recovery would fall apart.

He asked farmers and distillers to reduce grain use and requested
that the public voluntarily forgo meat on Tuesdays, eggs and
poultry on Thursdays and save a slice of bread each day.

Armour & Company was an American company and was one
of the  five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was
founded in Chicago, in 1867, by the Armour brothers led by
Philip Danforth Armour Sr. 

In connection with its meatpacking operations, the company
also ventured into pharmaceuticals (Armour Pharmaceuticals)
and soap manufacturing, introducing Dial soap in 1948.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

   

Philip Danforth Armour Sr.
(16 May 1832 – 6 January 1901)

An Australian artist’s latest masterpiece is a McDonald’s pickle
stuck to a ceiling — and he wants $6,200 for it.

The gallery director said “The work, simply titled "Pickle," gets
at the question of how people attribute value and meaning to
things”. 

Whoever buys the art will get instructions on how to recreate it
for themselves.