Costco customers are overjoyed by news that the store’s ‘archaic’ cake ordering system is finally modernizing

“This is GREAT!”

By Emily Shiffer

Loyal Costco fans are lauding their favorite big-box store for a long-awaited change to its custom cake ordering system. In a company memo, Costco announced that it will be launching an app for customers to order customized cakes at the touch of their fingers without having to enter a Costco store.

It’s a change that most loyal Costco customers are welcoming with open arms. But that doesn’t mean some of them didn’t have some deep, and deeply hilarious, observations on the matter.

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The ancient, brilliant reason we divide days into 60-minute hours and 60-second minutes

This is one place where the metric system falls short.

By Annie Reneau

Humans have devised many ways of measuring things in an attempt to learn more about our world, including numerical systems that help get us all on the same page. But we haven’t always agreed. The ongoing battle between the imperial and metric systems demonstrates the challenge of standardizing measurement. As most of the world uses the base-10 metric system, the United States remains the primary imperial holdout.

But one thing we agree on is how we measure time, or at least how we measure hours and seconds. And oddly enough, it’s not using the metric system. Why is that? How did we decide to split days into 60-minute hours and 60-second minutes instead of splitting them into, say, hundredths?

It's the little things. ☕️💕⁠

Man shares how not getting a wedding invite made him end a 10-year friendship, and it struck a chord

I went through so much with this person that I thought I had made the cut.”

By Heather Wake

As many are in the habit of doing, a man recently took to TikTok to “vent.” His “story time” was about his choice to end a 10-year friendship after not getting invited to said friend’s wedding. It soon became undeniably clear that he wasn’t alone in having an experience like this. 

Woman on a mission to bring back lost Black American recipes has people gasping at vinegar pie

Most of the recipes were created out of poverty to provide families with a sweet treat.

By Jacalyn Wetzel

People get very creative when it comes to cooking with limited ingredients and no budget. This combination is something people who lived through the Great Depression were very familiar with. It’s also something Black Americans experienced frequently in the 1800s, but time has stolen many of the ingenious recipes. Until now.