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Raspberry-lime rickeys are good in this weather and so is Ballantine Ale and so is Dannon Apricot Yogurt. Big, thick, greasy Elsie Burgers are not good. Ice cream cones are not good. They are sticky and they chalk up your mouth and make you thirsty, but you eat them anyway. The line is long at Brigham's and it is air-conditioned there...
...Durham bacon cake, caudle, flummery, ale jelly, Rissered haddie, Huntingdon fidget, Bucks bacon badger, star-gazey pie, slapjack, Bedfordshire clanger, Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs' pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool...
...West African kola nut, which Africans chew for refreshment. With their strong cola sales, front-running Coca-Cola and runner-up PepsiCo have long dominated the soda-pop industry. Lacking a popular cola contender, Canada Dry Corp. has run a poor third despite its lead in ginger ale. Now, in a move to put more fizz in its fortunes, the company has brought out a new variety of cola drink that is 99% caffeine-free...
...case of Mrs. Cunningham, the respite was as long as any recorded. After the first alcohol treatment worked, Dr. Perell sent her home from Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., with the prescription to "feel free to do a little elbow bending." Mrs. Cunningham felt like two bourbon-and-ginger-ale highballs a day. "This," she says, "was the only thing I could keep down." But it did not raise the alcohol level in her blood high enough to keep the oxytocin down. For that, a level close to the intoxication mark is needed. Her contractions began again. So back...
...consumed 3.25 gallons of distilled spirits per capita; today that figure is only slightly more than 1.5 gallons. What has happened is that per-capita wine consumption has risen from one-third gallon to nearly one gallon a year; the consumption of malt liquors (beer and ale) from about three gallons to more than 16. Indeed, beer, which contains only 4% alcohol, as against 12% for table wines, 20% for fortified wines and 40% to 50% for distilled spirits, accounted for all but a small fraction-13% last year-of the volume of alcoholic beverages consumed...