Costco shoppers are doing the ‘monster mash’ on this candy-stuffed Frankenstein. The warehouse giant has unleashed a monster-sized sweet treat: a life-sized, 5.5-pound Frankenstein head made of 100% Belgian chocolate that requires shoppers to smash open with an included wooden mallet to get to the gummy candy inside. The $55 chocolate Frankenstein is filled with … Read more
For a 5-year-old, walking into Jack’s Candy in downtown Los Angeles is equal parts dream come true and sensory overload. The downtown LA candy store, believed to be the largest in America, spans a massive 42,000 square feet and carries roughly 10,000 items, with aisle after aisle of chocolate, gummies, lollipops, Mexican sweets, nostalgic favorites, … Read more
Panic at the disco rice. Soaring temps and mounds of waste could make a cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights the ideal breeding ground for human-infecting flies, a city-commissioned health inspection found. The four-page report obtained by NBC Los Angeles focuses on the Lineage Facility in Boyle, which suffered fire damage last month, leaving millions of … Read more
On Saturday nights in downtown Los Angeles, one warehouse party is trading EDM for ambient music, and glow sticks for blankets. At the “Remember Those Quiet Evenings” on July 11, guests arrived with pillows, settled onto the floor and spent the night listening to Tibetan singing bowls, modular synthesizers and effected guitar. Before the main … Read more
They send your bags packing. When passengers lose luggage and never retrieve it, their suitcases don’t end up in a landfill or some forgotten storage unit — the bags are actually sold. According to Vice, 2.1 million passengers take off on an estimated 45,000 flights per day. While most of their luggage finds its way back to … Read more
I scream, you scream, we all scream for affordable ice cream. Inflation has had a chilling effect on the treasured summer time tradition of going out for a cone — leaving parents and children alike stone-cold mad at the prospect of paying 2024 prices for the simple pleasure. Happily, dessert lovers not drowning in ducats do still … Read more
The cat’s out of the box. A pet kitty survived almost a week without food or water after being accidentally shipped off in an Amazon return box by its owners. The feline, named Galena, was found inside the box by a startled employee at an Amazon warehouse in California on April 17, six days after … Read more
No one wants a golden ticket to a Scottish Willy Wonka-inspired experience. Police were called to Willy’s Chocolate Experience in Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday after parents felt scammed by the “absolute shambles of an event” and gathered to demand refunds. Tickets for the barren event, which cost $45 a person, promised a “paradise of sweet … Read more
Hopefully, he’s not “trolling” the public. The discovery of an apparent “goblin fetus” in Mexico has the internet in a tizzy with users debating over the identity of the freaky folkloric-seeming find. The bizarre specimen was reportedly exhumed during construction work on a derelict warehouse in Santa María Regla, which is located northeast of Mexico … Read more