Day: 20 May 2025
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Found GCB4434 A Road Anarchy - A40 TB Hotel
This checkin to GCB4434 A Road Anarchy - A40 TB Hotel reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. On a diversion from my cycle from Witney to Eynsham I came along the A40 cyclepath to find this cache. And what a cache! An excellent container perfectly suited to it's hiding place. …
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Found GCAARWW Green All Around
This checkin to GCAARWW Green All Around reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After cycling into Witney on an errand, put a slight diversion in my return route to find this cache. Didn't see anything at the coordinates so hit the hint, and there's been enough fresh green growth here …
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Shower thought for the morning was: why is cream cheese spread 'Philadelphia' called that? Is it from Philadelphia? (My box isn't, of course: it came from Ireland.)
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Dan, a white man with blue hair and a goatee, wearing a purple t-shirt, stands in a spacious residential kitchen holding a 'Family Pack'-sized tub of 'Original Philadelphia'.
Nope, it turns out that it was originally invented in New York in the 19th century and named for Philadelphia because Philadelphia, PA was at that point famous for its dairy industry. Just another bit of parasitic branding leveraging a borrowed association, like the Quaker Oats guy or the Rolls Razor. Now I'm wondering how many other examples I can find!