Day 417 / Hat 417: Mostly triangular aluminum foil hat constructed shiny-side-out from Reynolds Wrap® Standard Aluminum Foil. Brim measures 18 inches a side and crown measures 11 inches in height with a three-inch flat spot on top of the crown.
Constructed yesterday by our Test Kitchen
Director Noelle Carter ("Instead of doing my work," she says.) She
notes that upon completion it was modeled by various fellow cube farmers before
alighting in a place of honor -- the inflatable turkey wearing a bacon bandage
at Noelle's desk -- where it caught my eye first thing upon my arrival this
morning.
I have a strange connection to the tin foil
story (yeah, I know it's aluminum and not tin): My dad distinctly recalls, as a
kid, when his own father (Frank Henry Tschorn and an engineer by trade) worked
for Reynolds Metals as the company was trying to get the thickness of its
product just right for introduction into home use.
The result? Lots and lots of
rolls of foil - some too think, some too thin. Which means daddy-o and his
brohams had plenty of tin foil hats to go around.
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PC 217: Spies Like Us
PC 117: Chefs Like Us
A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins
Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?
A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.
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