A petroleum engineer’s joyless lunches went viral in China
Keith Brown, a British petroleum engineer, ate the same cheerless sandwiches for lunch every day — dry bread, a slice of something, no condiments — and his wife Zhang Jian filmed them. She posted the videos to Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, where audiences were, according to Wikipedia, “grimly fascinated.” Brown became famous.
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