That’s Odd

the phrase, “In G-d We Trust.”

Almost 3,000 flag designs were submitted to the commission; five were ultimately chosen to present to voters.

The five designs include those with a shield with wavy lines representing water; the Mississippi River snaking along the state’s western border, plus a magnolia blossom; two others with magnolia blossoms; and one with a stylized magnolia tree. Each has a star made of diamond shapes that are important to the state’sChoctawculture.

There’s no place like home, even though it may take you a long time to get there.

Three months ago, Solomon the tortoise embarked on quite the adventure. The 150-pound Sulcata tortoise managed to escape from his home in Ashland City, Tennessee. His owner, Lynn Cole, frantically searched for the 15-year-old slow-moving reptile but was not able to locate him.

Cole searched for 74 days, hung up hundreds of fliers, and posted myriad pictures on social media to find her hard-backed friend. Finally, on Thursday, Cole received the long-awaited phone call. A man had spotted Solomon at a construction site just an eighth of a mile from Cole’s home.

She and her husband rushed to bring Solomon home.

Solomon came back tried, hungry, and caked in mud. Cole immediately brought him his favorite dish – collard greens, broccoli, cauliflower, and watermelon rinds.

Hopefully, Solomon’s wandering days are over.

“People are surprised to know that he’s very attached to his humans, and he’s very happy to be home,” Cole said.

Being that Sulcata tortoises can live more than 100 years, Solomon has many more years to live happily ever after.

Home Sweet Home

$350 PB&J

This isn’t your typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

The Golden Goose sandwich, which is on the menu at a restaurant in Chicago called PB&J (Pizza, Beer and Jukebox), is one for the record books. The upscale classic sandwich is made with “toasted edible gold leaf bread,” “all-natural peanut butter,” manuka honey from New Zealand, and “the world’s most expensive” seedless redcurrant jam from Maison Dutriez in France, which, according to the menu, is “hand-seeded using goose quills.”

The price for this over-the-top lunchbox staple?

A whopping $350.

The Golden Goose — which needs to be ordered one day in advance — is officially the world’s most expensive PB&J, according to theRobb Report

Restaurant owners Matthew and Josh McCahill came up with the idea after spotting a similarly decadent PB&J selling for hundreds of dollars. Another out-of-control PB&J was served at the now-closed Red’s Golden Gourmet in San Diego for $299. It featured peanut butter, jelly, blueberries, bananas, bacon, and two sterling silver, gold-plated toothpicks.

Matthew McCahill says that the inspiration also came from his childhood.

“The inspiration actually comes from when I was a child and we grew up very poor and we were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and then just peanut butter sandwiches, and then just peanut butter,” said Matthew, noting the irony of his idea for the menu item.

Nothing is simple anymore.

Slogan Social Distancing

Well, if you thought that it was important to maintain six-feet social distancing, KFC is taking it to another level.

Kentucky Fried Chicken, the crispy chicken giant, is now scrapping its famous “finger lickin’ good” slogan because it may give customers ideas about licking their fingers at a time when people should be vigilant about keeping their hands clean.

On Monday, the company said that the 64-year-old slogan “doesn’t feel quite right.”

“We find ourselves in a unique situation — having an iconic slogan that doesn’t quite fit in the current environment,” said Catherine Tan-Gillespie, global chief marketing officer at KFC in a statement.

The slogan, though, will return when the “time is right.”

For now, the company has blurred out the offending words.

To be sure, this week’s announcement is a sneaky marketing ploy. The company has produced self-effacing campaigns in the past. For example, it has hawked chicken-scented clogs, chicken-scentedlogs, and, best of all, “finger lickin’ good”chicken-flavored edible nail polish.

Word to the wise: It’s best not to lick your fingers when they’re covered with hand sanitizer.

Car Subscriptions

right car for you.

The automaker is committed to helping customers who have commitment issues by announcing that it is adding a new, lower-cost single-car tier to its Porsche Drive subscription program, which was launched in Atlanta in 2017 and is currently available Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, and Los Angeles.

While the original program gives subscribers access to a fleet of sports cars, sedans, and SUVs that they can swap between as often as they like, with maintenance and insurance included, the new option locks them into one model for one or three months.

For now, there are only 325 subscribers to Porsche’s easy-come-easygo program. They’re generally younger than a typical Porsche buyer and stick with the program for an average of four months.

“We’re not just doing it. We’re doing it because so far we have seen it to be successful,” Porsche North America CEO Klaus Zellmer said.

“If you are customer-centric, if you are into flexibility that your customers demand, if you are searching for new target groups, and just one figure that hasn’t changed in almost three years now is that 80 percent of our members in those subscription programs are new to the brand.”

Zellmer said that having cars that people “desire to drive” is a plus, and that about 10 percent of subscribers do go on to purchase a Porsche. He’s not sure yet if that figure is good or bad, because the program is meant to stand apart from the company’s traditional model.

Porsche sold a record 61,568 vehicles in the U.S. in 2019 and 26,290 through the first half of this year.

Pricing for the single-car plan runs from $1,500 per month for a Macan SUV to $2,600 for a 911 Carrera compared to $2,100 to $3,100 for the multi-car plans. A $595 activation fee is waived for customers who opt for a three-month single-car program. The cars are delivered and maintained via a concierge service, as long as the subscriber is within 20 miles of the dealership operating the fleet, which is refreshed every six to 12 months.

If committing to a subscription program is still too much for you, consider Porsche’s daily rental program, which starts at $245 a day.