On what must be the slowest news day in the world, the NYT covers care packages for soldiers, telling us that chicken pasta is vegetarian. In what world? Chinatown?

Other new field rations include an expanded line of vegetarian dishes, including lasagna and chicken pesto pasta. [Link]

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [Link]

Reading this story is like hearing about Hillary Clinton baking cookies — you’d think there wasn’t a major military scandal going on. But I do like the image of tea-drinking American soldiers. After all, we came to blows over a spot of tea in Boston Harbor:

Her lemon cookies are popular, too. “They drink a lot of tea over there and I think lemon cookies go really good with it,” she said. [Link]