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On 12 November 2013, the day after Veterans Day, The Duffel Blog (TDB) published an article positing that the Applebee's restaurant chain would be filing for bankruptcy protection due to enormous financial losses it had incurred in offering free alcohol to service members on Veterans Day: Links and excerpts referencing that article were soon circulated via social media, with many of those encountering it mistaking it for a genuine news report. However, the article was merely a spoof from the TDB military humor site which combined the tradition of restaurant chains offering free (or reduced price) food and beverages to veterans and active duty military on Veterans Day with the stereotype of service members being prodigious consumers of alcohol. As stated in TDB's About Us page, the site is akin to a military version of the satirical web site The Onion:
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