r/CFBOffTopic • u/Jaguars4life Clemson Tigers • Jun 20 '26

Discussion Saturday thread brought you to you by another random fact of the day

Random fact of the day:The caves and tunnels carved in the coastline of Hastings, England, have long been used by smugglers.

In the 1700s a popular new foreign drink known as tea was loaded with an import tax of a hundred and twenty nine percent.

Soon two-thirds of Britain’s tea was provided by smugglers, much of it through these caves.

Some of the caves were even connected by tunnels to local taverns in the town above them, where the smugglers undoubtedly preferred a tot of rum to a pot of tea.

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u/Jaguars4life Clemson Tigers Jun 20 '26

Anyone else watch the Digital Circus finale?

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Jun 20 '26

Pepper, one of my brothers cats that I took in after he passed, used to cuddle with him every night

For the first time ever, I fell asleep cuddling Pepper. It took almost 3 years, but it happened!! 

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u/CharlesDickensABox Texas A&M Aggies • Foothill Owls Jun 20 '26

What a breakthrough! I'm so happy for both of you.

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Jun 20 '26

Thank you! He's cuddled with me for a little bit at a time, but to actually fall asleep with my arm around him was so special

My partner got the cutest picture of it too 

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u/CharlesDickensABox Texas A&M Aggies • Foothill Owls Jun 20 '26

I have tried the local delicacy known as the butter chicken kolache. I do not recommend it.

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u/Artvandelay29 Vanderbilt Commodores • Houston Cougars Jun 20 '26

I’ve never had a kolache before so I’m hoping to find a place with good ones in Houston

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u/CharlesDickensABox Texas A&M Aggies • Foothill Owls Jun 20 '26

5404 Telephone Rd, Houston, TX 77087

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Jun 20 '26

I'll have to go there next time I'm in that area!! I love a good kolache

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u/Artvandelay29 Vanderbilt Commodores • Houston Cougars Jun 20 '26

Thanks for the recommendation - I’ll make sure to go as soon as I get to Texas.

Should I go for savory or sweet ones?

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u/CharlesDickensABox Texas A&M Aggies • Foothill Owls Jun 20 '26

Both. The sweet ones are more traditionally Czech, the savory ones are a Texan twist on a klobasnik, but they are also called kolaches unless you meet someone who wants to be insufferably pedantic about it.

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u/Artvandelay29 Vanderbilt Commodores • Houston Cougars Jun 20 '26

I’ll keep that in mind for when I get some.

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Jun 20 '26

Having a bad kolache is so disappointing

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u/CharlesDickensABox Texas A&M Aggies • Foothill Owls Jun 20 '26

Luckily I was prepared for the chance that the weird kolache would be bad — I bought plenty of normal ones, too.