• Soulg@ani.social
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    3 hours ago

    I worked a small-ish local pizza chain for a while when I was younger and we had a similar promotion. If someone had a birthday where we were guaranteed to be closed, we would let them use the coupon on any other day instead

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      1 hour ago

      Based on the junk emails I get the same is true of most places. The number of random emails I get in my birthday month or birthday week from random companies that somehow have my birthday, they just want you to come in.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It wasn’t his birthday either. They just celebrate it then because of all the pagan holdiays leaving them out. (Yule… Saturnalia, bacchanalia.)

    Humans have pretty much always done something around the winter solstice. Historically, part of it was there really wasn’t much else to do.

    Most work could only be done with light. The shortest day of the year had little light and in any case mostly they were just waiting for spring to come while maintaining farms and shit. Also in the north they were kinda sorta trying to stay indoors and out of the frooking cold.

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    4 hours ago

    Cheese pizza is stupid. I’ll never understand it. Pizza is better with other toppings. If anything, overdo the sauce, underdo the cheese, and def add meat and olives.