Day 3920: Smuggling and a favorite.

  

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Surprising Smuggling?

For most people, the black market likely conjures thoughts of prohibited drugs and illegal wildlife. However, the latest botched smuggling attempt to make international headlines revolves around a decidedly less controversial but still unexpected product: Fruit Roll-Ups.

Authorities have reportedly seized more than 650 pounds of the sugary, nostalgic snack at one Israeli airport alone. One of these smuggling crackdowns was reported by the Israeli news outlet Mako on May 1. When an American couple arrived at the Ben Gurion International Airport in late April, customs officials discovered a whopping 375 pounds of Fruit Roll-Ups in their luggage.

Footage shared on Twitter showed what looked like hundreds of individually-packed Fruit Roll-Ups–and nothing else–filling the couple's overpacked suitcases. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, citing the Israeli Tax Authority, reported that officials discovered and confiscated 661 pounds of Fruit Roll-Ups in total at the airport in a period of just one week.

Though the ultra-sweet treat has never really gone away, it’s having a major resurgence thanks to a new TikTok hack. Over the last few weeks, Fruit Roll-Ups have become the star of social media, thanks to a few intrepid youths unrolling them, filling them with ice cream, and rolling them up again for an ice cream sandwich-like creation. 

Wow?

What's your favorite book? This is one of mine.

"You become. It takes a long time. 

That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. 

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your 

hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and 

you get loose in your joints and very shabby.
But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand."
 

Margery Williams -The Velveteen Rabbit

 

 

 

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