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Welcome to the good news ride home for Thursday, June 11th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

Today, weird comfort foods born out of historic times of discomfort.

How to hug during a pandemic.

Electric vehicle batteries may get a second life.

Drones are now delivering library books to kids in Virginia

and the best custom birthday videos on the internet.

If you've got any family recipes that have been handed down through the generations, there might be some strange ones in the mix.

For example, among my grandma's genuinely delicious recipes, there's also one for

mock apple pie, which is literally just boiled sugar and cream of tartar, spread across some

saltine crackers and topped with cinnamon. No apples or anything. She also has a recipe for pineapple pizza.

That's just a lump of baked bisquick topped with a can of crushed pineapples. And I love it.

Genuinely, one of my favorite comfort foods. My grandma grew up in the 30s and 40s,

the oldest of 12 kids in a two-room house. She learned to cook

for lots of people with very little and to make it last. And that's how a lot of strange

comfort foods began, a little bit of innovation and a lot of necessity. The creators probably

didn't think that their dish would be something people would want to keep making for years to

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