Word: bananas
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Although these potions are costly, Harnett's will accept checks in an emergency at the Natural Juices bar. For a mere $3.50 one can enjoy their fresh mango and banana fruit smoothies. However, the more adventurous should try a wheat grass drink. This bright green liquid comes in a shot glass. The bartender cuts grass from a white plastic tray of growing stalks and puts it in a special metal grinder to get the juice. But this isn't just any grass, this is wheat grass, and it can perform miracles. It is a (take a deep breath) body building...
Strawberry Shortcake and her little cat, Custard, wouldn't put up with the preposterous and culturally confusing notion of a banana in sleepwear for one minute. In this produce showdown, 'Cake and her little feline friend give a pie in the face to the bedtime Chiquitas, who don't even have a fruity scent...
...course, none of us needs grapes at all. Grapes are nearly pure sugar, with far less vitamin C than an orange, and lacking the potassium of a banana or the dietary fiber of an apple. Don't get me wrong, grapes taste great. But there are plenty of other things that taste great that we don't have in the dining halls. (Chocolate bars come to mind.) And if you're such a big fan that you can't wait to make it home for the holidays where (presumably) a juicy bowl of your favorite fruit awaits your arrival...
...feature several opportunities to yell "Hullabaloo!" Benefits for students would include the President's annual Commencement Holler and overall friendlier staff ("Hi, my name is Domna Sue"). Dining hall meals would be patterned after Elvis' favorites in his last years at Graceland, including Fried chicken, Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, Fried pies and Fried frying oil. And, of course, if country music had stayed on in the Northeast, "Yale" would still just be a verb ("I tole Domna Sue to hurry up with them fried pertaters, but 'course she didn't, so I had to yale...
Other documents turned over to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee by Bob Dole's presidential campaign further erode Norquist's protestations of independence. R.N.C. deputy finance director and close Dole adviser Jo-Anne Coe directed a $100,000 contribution to Norquist's group from banana baron Carl Lindner two weeks before the election. "Keep up the good work," she wrote Norquist. Norquist did not return a telephone call seeking comment. An R.N.C. spokesman said the party never dictated the use of money given to Norquist's group; Dole, meanwhile, has volunteered to answer questions from Thompson's committee this week...