--- title: A great kebab costume, POTUS is a dreadful job, and more newsy numbers - The Hustle description: "Plus: The last Netflix DVDs and ice cream in spaghetti form." image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1492140665-19-News-Brief_2023-08-20T230532.046Z.webp --- # A great kebab costume, POTUS is a dreadful job, and more newsy numbers ![Sidd Finch](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/siddfinch-1.jpg?width=48&height=48&name=siddfinch-1.jpg) [Sidd Finch](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/sidd-finch) [Sidd Finch Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/TheHustle) Published: August 22, 2023 Updated: October 11, 2023 **~30m:** [cups of “spaghettieis”](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-germanys-spaghetti-ice-cream-came-to-be-180982461/) sold in Germany each year. Invented by Dario Fontanella, the dessert uses a spaetzle maker to turn ice cream into pasta-like strands; it’s then topped with a fruit sauce and white chocolate to resemble marinara and parmesan. ![kebab and bowl of pasta with POTUS giving speech](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1492140665-19-News-Brief_2023-08-20T230532.046Z.webp?width=595&height=400&name=1492140665-19-News-Brief_2023-08-20T230532.046Z.webp) **10: **[extra DVDs ](https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/17/23835731/netflix-dvd-customers-10-extra-discs)Netflix will send to its DVD-by-mail subscribers before it shutters the service after 25 years. Subscribers must opt in by Aug. 29 to receive 10 movies selected from their queue a month later. All discs must be returned by Oct. 27, though. **$11.9k: **what Adil Asim, owner of a Canadian restaurant chain, paid for [an incredible costume](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66505627) auctioned off by the Alberta government. It looks like a giant donair— a Canadian street food mashup of a Greek gyro and a Turkish doner kebab — and was originally bought for a never-aired anti-drug PSA in 2015. **36%: **the share of Americans who approve of President Biden’s handling of the economy, according to the [latest](https://apnorc.org/projects/economic-perceptions-continue-to-be-a-weak-spot-for-biden/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top&doing_wp_cron=1692375243.3878009319305419921875) AP-NORC poll. The Biden team is winning on many key economic numbers — inflation down to 3.2%, unemployment at 3.5%, and [per](https://www.axios.com/2023/08/18/sp500-earnings-q2-2023-target-walmart) *Axios*, ~80% of S&P 500 companies beat forecasted earnings last quarter — yet they’re continually losing on vibes. And you think *your* job is annoying? 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