
Star Wars and merchandise have been hand in hand since the very beginning.
A New Zealand Army soldier tries a US military MRE — or Meal, Ready-to-Eat — and compares it to New Zealand MREs. An MRE is designed to sustain soldiers during training or an operation while food-service facilities are inaccessible.
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Remember fast-food kids meals with specially marketed pop culture toys? They just don’t make ‘em like they used to.
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British and American "Food Wars" hosts Harry Kersh and Joe Avella swapped places to try each other's KFC menu items and find all the differences between the two. This is "Food Wars: Foreign Exchange."
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