ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

New greeting cards come with flavor strips included

CLEVELAND

Move over, greeting cards with sound or that come scented. A new entry in the card aisle plays to the sense of taste.

American Greetings Corp. on Monday announced the launch of Tasties, a line of cards that come with a dissolvable flavor strip meant to be eaten by the recipient.

The Cleveland-based company says each sealed strip offers a “tasty surprise” that corresponds to the message on the card. For example, an insert made to taste like a cupcake comes with a card that features the image of a cupcake and a line about birthdays providing an excuse to eat cake — “lots and lots of cake.”

Other cards in the series come with the flavors that include a doughnut and a margarita.

Camo-wearing bowhunters marry in a tree in Iowa

ANAMOSA, Iowa

An Iowa couple whose passion for bowhunting encouraged Cupid’s arrow to strike wore camouflage to blend in with the wooded backdrop at their treetop wedding.

Forty-two year-old Kim Silver dressed in a silk gown made by camouflage specialists Mossy Oak, and her 61-year-old groom, Marvin Hunter, was dressed in camo shirt and pants at the Saturday nuptials.

They said their vows atop a tree stand hunting platform at the Anamosa Bowhunters Archery Club in the state’s northeast. The bride and groom occasionally punctuated the ceremony by firing arrows at targets.

Hunter said the couple had always joked about getting married on a tree stand. Silver said they hunt together so much that the camo wedding “just seemed like the right thing to do.”

Seeing double diplomas: 2 NY schools, 19 sets of twins

BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y.

People attending graduation ceremonies at a pair of upstate New York high schools couldn’t be blamed for thinking they were seeing double.

Twelve sets of twins graduated from Baker High School in Baldwinsville on Sunday, the same day seven sets of twins received their diplomas during ceremonies at nearby Jamesville-DeWitt High School in the Syracuse area.

Representatives from Guinness World Records say Baker High’s graduating class with 12 sets of twins breaks the previous record of 10, set by a Massachusetts high school in 2007.

Principal Joseph DeBarbieri, himself a twin, says four of his school’s 12 sets of twins plan to attend the same college as their sibling.

Associated Press