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It’s National Banana Bread Day. Yup, You Read Me Right.

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It’s National Banana Bread Day. Yup, You Read Me Right.

Recipes for Optimising This Historic Day Are As Follows.  It’s another fortuitous Friday, my friends! And this one is special. Arguably, the national sweet treat of our country is banana bread. Who of us hasn’t enjoyed a tasty morsel of B-bread? Either made with love by someone dear to us or from a local corner cafe? We’ll speculate less than 1%.  But ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, first of all, we need to be transparent. Banana Bread was an American invention! During the 1930s, the Depression hit the US in a big way. Money for food had to be...

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A Tale of Kris Kringle and The Secret Santa Code of Conduct.

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A Tale of Kris Kringle and The Secret Santa Code of Conduct.

T’was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even your lovely co-workers, your parents, siblings or spouse, or that new group of friends from the gym that you just met three weeks ago … Big Yikes Pulp Fam! Gift-giving szn is upon us, but no drama. We have the goods to help you through it.  There are two versions of Secret Santa. The first is the Origin Story of the practice of ‘Secret Santa’ AKA Kris Kringle. And it is a chronicle of kindness. In the 1970s, an American philanthropist called Larry Dean...

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Blend In By Standing Out: Drinkware That Will Add a Little Zazz to Your Daily Liquid Consumption.

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Blend In By Standing Out: Drinkware That Will Add a Little Zazz to Your Daily Liquid Consumption.

Yeah, you read me right: Zazz. With three Z’s. Is it even an Oxford English Dictionary-sanctioned word? Who knows!? Not me, but it just about does a full vibe check for these colourful cups we have for you here at Pulp. Think of them as ‘drip’ (aka cool fashion) for your kitchen. If you don’t know what I mean, GYAT !! (ahem, get your act together). Apologies for the overwhelming Gen Z lexicon; I was having a moment. The earliest known drinking vessels date back to the Upper Paleolithic age (50,000 years ago), known for  the emergence of more sophisticated...

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