Word: creams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday-night ritual in Westwood Village, an enclave of movie theaters and trendy shops neighboring the sprawling campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Teen-agers and college students hang about the bars and ice-cream parlors to gawk and hobnob, while lines of moviegoers curl around the corners...
...subsoil has caused parts of the city to sink, in some places as much as 30 ft., a process worsened by periodic earthquakes. The redoubtable Palace of Fine Arts, which looks rather like some turn-of-the-century world's fair pavilion made of vanilla ice cream, has sunk nearly 10 ft. since it was completed in 1934. The 16th century church of San Francisco, which has sunk 5 ft., can be approached only by going down a flight of stone stairs. At the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, just north of the city, the original basilica tilts...
Creator Mintz, 53, is not surprised. A former caterer and a devout Orthodox Jew, Mintz suspected eight years ago that tofu could be the milk substitute he needed to make an ice-cream-like dessert that would not violate religious prohibitions against the mixing of meat and dairy products at the same meal. "It didn't come out right at the outset," he admits...
...best masks the aftertaste of its novel ingredient with strident flavors such as banana-pecan and forest maple. In Texas, the bestseller is made by swirling peanut butter and chocolate flavors together into something that tastes like a Reese's Cup. Aficionados swear Tofutti is better than ice cream. Says one: "If you eat it too fast, you even get the headache...
That is about the only unwelcome side effect. Tofutti is a dieter's and a cardiologist's dream. Blended with high-fructose corn sweeteners, it contains 128 calories in four ounces, about the same as frozen yogurt, but fewer than the 250 or more for premium ice cream. NutraSweet, the sugar substitute, may soon be used to further reduce calories. Because Tofutti is both butterfat and cholesterol-free, Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach even serves the confection to heart patients. It contains no lactose, good news for the millions of Americans who suffer an adverse reaction...