Unsung Victim of the Titanic Disaster

It’s the centennial of the sinking of the White Star Line’s RMS Titanic, an event marked by 3-D movies, TV shows, ceremonies, memorials, magazine and newspaper stories and blog posts. Many profile the men, women, children and dogs who were lost.

There’s a forgotten victim here, a helpless baby iceberg a mere 50 to 100 feet high and 200 to 400 feet long. It was peacefully bobbing along in the North Atlantic one evening, minding its own business, when it was suddenly rammed by a huge luxury steamer carelessly speeding on its way to New York.

There are many memorials to other victims of the Titanic, but none recognizing the iceberg. It’s time for one. An ice sculpture, perhaps.

Oreo Cookie Centennial

An American icon reaches the century mark today: the Oreo sandwich cookie. A classic. Two crisp, round, embossed chocolate-colored wafers separated by a thin stratum of sweet white paste. Nothing but the finest sugar, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1}, riboflavin (vitamin B2), folic acid, high oleic canola oil and/or palm oil and/or canola oil and/or soybean oil, cocoa (processed with alkali), high fructose corn syrup, cornstarch, leavening (baking soda and/or calcium phosphate), salt, soy lecithin (emulsifier), vanillin — an artifical flavor, chocolate. Yum.