"National up in the air but has lost support (standing upright even with one stay on the ground), Labour is on firm ground, Winston is on the left with the Greens lagging behind and no sign of TOP," writes David. "The signs are outside our house by the Queenstown Airport roundabout . Cloud obscuring The Remarkables - and our political future?" he adds.
Marrying bacon with eggs was a PR stunt
Edward Bernays, who's been called the "father of public relations", was the person responsible for pairing bacon with eggs on American breakfast tables. He'd been hired by a producer of bacon in the 1920s to increase demand for the porkly product. At the time, Americans ate a light breakfast - maybe coffee and a roll. Bernays asked the agency's physician whether a heavy breakfast was better than a light one since "the body loses energy in the night and needs it in the day". "We asked him whether if he'd be willing - at no cost - to write to 5000 physicians and ask them whether their judgment was the same as his. He said he'd be glad to do it," reminisced Bernays decades later. "Obviously, all of them concurred." This news was reported in newspapers throughout the country, many of which added that bacon and eggs should be part of the "healthier" breakfast. Sales of bacon went up and bacon became embedded with eggs. (Source: howstuffworks.com)
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