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Cheap Eats sandbox
Cheap Eats is an original food travelogue television series on Cooking Channel where host and co-executive producer Ali Khan, author of the blog Bang for Your Burger Buck, has 12 hours to find the best deals for breakfast, lunch, a snack, and dinner — on a budget of only $35. Sometimes Ali breaks the budget, but he only ever goes over by a few dollars.

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Flexible glass sandbox
Flexible glass is an alleged lost invention from the time of the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar (between 14-37 AD). It is also modernly used in fiber optic cables.

History / Mythology
The account of flexible glass (vitrum flexile) is most popularly related by two compilers, Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD, Naturalis Historia XXXVI.lxvi.195) and Petronius (c. 27–66 AD, Satyricon 51). Pliny claims that the story of flexible glass is "More widely spread than well authenticated." Petronius's work is more dramatized and satirical. Pliny and Petronius's story is retold by Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636, Etymologiae XVI.16.6, ‘De vitro’), which in turn is included in pseudo-Heraclius's 13th century collection of technical recipes.

Purportedly, the unnamed inventor of the technique brought a drinking bowl made of flexible glass before Caesar, where there was an attempt made to break it. Accounts vary on who tried to break it, however, the bowl merely dented, rather than shattering. The inventor repaired the bowl easily with a small hammer, according to Petronius. After the inventor swore that he was the only man alive who knew the manufacturing technique, Tiberius had the man executed. The emperor feared that the glass would devalue gold and silver, since the material might be more valuable.

Modern Usage
In the modern era, flexible glass is used in fiber optic cables. It is incredibly pure glass, manufactured with few defects and a pristine surface. In 2012, Corning Inc. introduced Willow Glass - a flexible glass based on borosilicate glass. In 2016, Schott AG introduced a similar flexible glass product.