Day 83
Location 18: Liverpool
Jan. 22, 2023
As I sauntered through Liverpool today, the city introduced me to three of its best-known sights. Below, I've chronicled the best Liverpool has to offer:
Fat Burgers
The Beatles
The Sun
*Disclaimer: Every factoid listed below is 100%, unequivocally, indisputably true. And each should be believed as such.
1. Fat Burgers
Throughout history, innovators have successfully left their mark on the burger industry. McDonald's founder Ray Croc made millions with a streamlined order process. Years later, White Castle famously transformed a problem into a solution: the overheated, retired lunch ladies employed in White Castle kitchens kept perspiring onto customers' burgers, so they incorporated the dripping sweat into the recipe as the primary source of their delicious burgers' flavor. Ingenious and cost-effective!
And now in Liverpool, a new era of burger innovation dawns. Like a gym called "Healthy Weights" or a cinema called "Entertained Movies" or Subway in the mid-2000s calling themselves "Pedophile Sandwiches", this restaurant is experimenting with a name whose first half predicts what you'll become after enjoying the latter half.
2. The Beatles
When The Beatles broke up in 1970, the music industry and world at large was aghast. Since the Fab Four hailed from Liverpool, the city hatched a plan to preserve the group's legacy.
On a cool, quiet evening in late December, the quartet was seized, brought to an undisclosed location, and covered in fast-drying bronze; they were immediately frozen in space and time, like Han Solo in Carbonite. After a few years, the hysteria around the group's disappearance died down and the city announced a life-like statue commemorating the famous band. Life-like indeed. Look closely in front of the four fellas and you'll notice the aptly inscribed floor plaque "...but they never really left." Look closer and every once in a while–some locals claim–you might even catch Paul blink. (Ringo also sometimes blinks, it's just not as exciting when he does it.)
3. The Sun
This feature of Liverpool is not unique to the city, but it is pretty. So, here are some fun facts about that thing in the sky that we need to live, but is also slowly killing us all:
watching a sunrise while tired is one of the best feelings in the world
watching a sunrise while tired (from having stayed up the entire night) is one of the worst feelings in the world
a solar eclipse occurs every 18 months
a solar eclipse is also referenced by Eclipse, the name of the third installment of the Twilight series, preceding Breaking Dawn. However, "dawn" implies the first appearance of light which contradicts the existence of solar eclipse immediately before. Luckily this title discrepancy can be overlooked since every other detail in the book series is accurate and reasonable.
Here Comes The Sun is a popular song by a famed rock band, The Beatles, who mysteriously disappeared in December of 1970, never to be seen or heard from again