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  "description": "Hello again.\n\n\nItem 1: a link\n\nWe have a rich history in this country of giant megacorporations making up traditions and then us just gobbling them up like swine. For example, the lemon swine – I mean, lemon pig – which came to prominence (well, marginal well-knownness) in the 1970s when aluminum foil company Alcoa published 401 Party and Holiday Ideas from Alcoa, shameless aluminum foil propaganda which included the lemon pig as a make-at-home good luck charm. It's important to note, however, t",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-13T14:30:30.000Z",
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    "giant megacorporations making up traditions",
    "lemon pig",
    "started posting their own",
    "**Cultural Lists**"
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  "textContent": "Hello again.\n\n* * *\n\n## Item 1: a link\n\nLemon Pig (pure)\n\nWe have a rich history in this country of giant megacorporations making up traditions and then us just gobbling them up like swine. For example, the lemon swine – I mean, lemon pig – which came to prominence (well, marginal well-knownness) in the 1970s when aluminum foil company Alcoa published _401 Party and Holiday Ideas_  _from Alcoa_ , shameless aluminum foil propaganda which included the lemon pig as a make-at-home good luck charm _._ It's important to note, however, that lemon pigs had been made (mostly by children) for at least a century earlier. Alcoa just added an aluminum foil tail. That's corporate ingenuity for you!\n\nThen nothing much happened for fifty years or so, until Anna Pallai, author of _70s Dinner Party: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly of Retro Food_ , made one and put it on Twitter on New Years Eve 2017, and a bunch of people loved it and started posting their own.\n\nLemon Pig (capitalism edition)\n\nAnyway, this is admittedly not a very timely link, nor do I endorse the foil version, but consider crafting your own lemon pig in late December if you want 2027 to improve on 2026.\n\n## Item 2: a list\n\n### **Subcategories of****Cultural Lists****, Ranked:**\n\n  1. Culture-related lists of superlatives\n  2. Food- and drink-related lists\n  3. Lists of hoaxes\n  4. Skepticism-related lists\n  5. Cuisine-related lists\n  6. Lists of mascots\n  7. Lists of banned works\n  8. Cultural history-related lists\n  9. Arts-related lists\n  10. Lists of mottos\n  11. Lists of festivals\n  12. Etiquette lists\n  13. Communication-related lists\n  14. Lists of nicknames\n  15. Lists of practical jokes\n  16. LGBTQ-related lists\n  17. Entertainment lists\n  18. Journalism lists\n  19. Gardening lists\n  20. Lists of awards\n  21. Clothing-related lists\n  22. Fashion-related lists\n  23. Mythology-related lists\n  24. Lists of cultural organizations\n  25. Lists of observances\n  26. Lists of symbols\n  27. Sexuality-related lists\n  28. Animal rights-related lists\n  29. Cultural lists by country\n  30. Lists of organized events\n  31. Education-related lists\n  32. Astrology-related lists\n  33. Lists of orders, decorations, and medals\n  34. Translation-related lists\n  35. Religion-related lists\n  36. Christmas-related lists\n  37. World's fair-related lists\n  38. Beauty pageants related lists\n\n\n\n[All subcategory names _sic]_\n\n## Item 3: a media recommendation\n\nWillie Nelson – I Never Cared for You\n\n## Item 4: word of the week\n\nCongeries\n\n _This is less a book than a congeries of incoherent thoughts, phrased poorly and rife with spelling errors. But it's thinly veiled Harry Potter fanfiction so we're going to publish it._\n\n## Item 5: an image\n\nDee's Hot Dogs, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 2005\n\n* * *\n\n## See ya!\n\nThanks for reading. See you next week.",
  "title": "Friday, February 13, 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-13T14:30:30.000Z"
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