Word: chickening
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Given the current bagel-building boom, few Americans will be able to avoid them. With remarkable velocity, the bagel is joining America's basic fast-food group--pizza, hamburgers, chicken and tacos--as competitors race one another across the country to create bagel-shop chains before this latest hole in the market is filled. Bagel sales have reached about $3 billion and are growing more than 20% annually, according to Lehman Brothers. Sales in bagel shops and bakeries increased roughly 50% last year, according to Bakery Production and Marketing, a trade magazine...
...overseas everything from V8 juice to Friskies, a "market promotion" budget that is almost 30% higher than in 1995. As these companies are among the world's best at marketing, "it's hard for me to believe that McDonald's needs government bureaucrats to tell them how to sell Chicken McNuggets," says Beau Boulter, chairman of the antitax group CapitolWatch...
...chicken really foul? A consumer group charges that 25% of RAW CHICKENS harbor Salmonella and 90% are contaminated with Campylobacter, an equally stomach-sickening and potentially deadly bacterium. The study blames the practice of immersing carcasses in hot water to loosen feathers; the report, disputed by the poultry industry, says the water is not hot enough to kill the bacteria and encourages them to spread...
...give her. It, along with a certain amount of sentimental jewelry, belonged to Camilla. Diana called her sisters to lunch just before the wedding and asked them if she might still get out of it. "Your face is on the tea towels, so it's too late to chicken out now," was the famous reply. The pity is that the bride could not ask the groom about whether they had any future together; they didn't know each other well enough...
...celebration was kicked off with a 13-course buffet that included roast duck, Kung Pao chicken and orange-flavored beef...