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‘Family Feud Canada’ contestant impresses Popeyes with wrong viral answer, gets awarded $10,000 worth of food
A “Family Feud Canada” contestant, who gave a wrong answer that went viral, impressed Popeyes so much that the fast-food chain awarded her with $10,000 worth of food.
“Chhhhiiiicckkeennnnn,” answered contestant Eve Dubois, singing it aloud while doing a hilarious little dance.
“Name Popeye’s favorite food,” host Gerry Dee had asked Dubois and another contestant Logan Tomlin.
Dee prefaced the question with, “Real simple. There’s one question. Only one answer. Whoever gets it, you’re playing for $10,000. That’s it. Whoever guesses this wins the game.”
Dubois couldn’t wait for Dee to finish the question when she slammed on the buzzer and excitedly provided her answer.
“Oh, my Gooooood,” one of Dubois’ family member gasped, as Dubois covered her mouth in shock.
“Spinach, Gerry,” Tomlin answered correctly, winning the $10,000.
The “Family Feud Canada” question was referring to Popeye the Sailor, not Popeye’s, the food chain.
“I thought you meant Popeyes chicken!” she ran back to the microphone and said cheerily.Nonetheless, Dubois’ answer went viral, catching the eye of Popeyes.
“.@sublimevey! Our survey says you got that right. DM us to claim your $10,000 worth of Popeyes. #LoveThatChickenFromPopeyes,” Popeyes tweeted on Friday, tagging Dubois.
Earlier this month, Business Insider’s Irene Jiang tried the Popeyes chicken sandwich prior to its national roll out and declared it the best chicken sandwich available in fast food.
The Popeyes chicken sandwich was also dubbed the fast-food menu item of last year.
Australian wildfires: ‘Annihilated’ supplies of meat, wheat, dairy, water threatens global food crises, experts say
Experts say the wildfires in Australia, which have killed at least 27 people and an estimated 800 million animals, could significantly impact supplies of meat, wheat, dairy and water, threatening global food crises.
“Typically, there are a few ways food supply can be affected by wildfires,” former NASA engineer and founder of TCHO Chocolate Timothy Childs told FOX Business. “For one, any farms, crops … that might be in the path of the fires, clearly will be immediately annihilated.”
Australia a major exporter of wheat, which has been destroyed in the flames.
“For one, pollutants released by wildfires can affect crop and vegetation growth hundreds of miles away from the actual area that has burned,” Childs said.
Childs added that those pollutants could also “reduce plant growth and productivity.”
Sydney University ecologist Chris Dickman estimated that the wildfires will likely kill nearly 800 million animals in New South Wales, Australia alone and will impact more than one billion animals nationwide.
Childs said since Australia is the second-largest beef and veal exporter in the world, behind Brazil, beef prices could rise.
“Hundreds, perhaps thousands of cattle will have been lost. We have to wait for the full assessment but the impact will be devastating,” Phin Ziebell, agribusiness analyst, National Australia Bank, told Reuters.
The loss of cattle could also hurt the dairy industry.
Australia, the world’s seventh-largest dairy exporter, face tightening milk supplies due to the wildfires, Reuters reported.
Southern Australia is a huge producer of cheese. Over the new year, two major dairy areas in the country were scorched, including the New South Wales south coast and East Gippsland in Victoria.
Wildfire-affected regions account for about a third of the country’s milk output, the wire service reported, citing data from industry group Dairy Australia.
Farmers are struggling to secure feed for their cattle, which could affect both milk production and breeding, Reuters reported.
“The fires have primarily killed the youngest in the herd. It will take years to rebuild,” Paul Mumford, a dairy farmer in Won Wron, 130 miles east of Melbourne, told the wire service.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday nearly 4,000 livestock had been killed by the fires.
“Because climate change doesn’t know borders, there’s a real danger that food crises could develop on several continents simultaneously,” venture capitalist and environmentalist Ibrahim AlHusseini told FOX Business.
More than 26 million acres have burned in an ecological disaster unprecedented in Australia’s history, the National Geographic reported.
Drinking water supplies, coastal ecosystems and the freshwater rivers that support Australian wildlife are threatened.
“Disturbance on this scale is almost certainly going to impact biodiversity. I’m remarkably worried about the effects on freshwater ecosystems,” Ross Thompson, a freshwater ecologist at the University of Canberra, told the Geographic.
“Given the severity of the fires, pretty much everything [in burned landscapes] is gone, so one of the big issues is that when we do get some rain, a lot of that ash and crap, nothing is going to stop it running in our catchments,” Ricky Spencer, a conservationist and ecologist at the University of Western Sydney in New South Wales, told the publication.
The sudden influx of nutrients into waterways could cause algae blooms, also called cyanobacteria. When this happens, oxygen could drop to dangerously low levels for aquatic life, potentially leading to mass fish kills, according to the Geographic.
Agricultural run-off and the ongoing drought already caused blooms that led to the death of millions of fish in Australia last summer, the report said.
And Spencer said he fears the algal blooms will be exacerbated by the wildfires.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
