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Beyond the Dessert. In Charleston, W.Va., at the gala opening of Woodrum's Tearoom, the proprietors did some rapid table hopping after they discovered that matchbooks placed before each customer bore an advertisement for indigestion tablets...
Finished with the book and too ashamed for another round of smorgasbord. I concluded the meal with three desserts, apple crunch cake, Norwegian rosettes, and rum pudding. After lapping up the last of the rum, I forgave my Scandinavian friends for serving French pastry and said goodbye to the waiter, the dishwasher, the cold chef, the hot chef, and the just plain chefs. I paid my check, $1.50, with one dessert, and told my hostess I'd be back on May 17 when the patio would be open. The seventeenth is of course, Norwegian Independence...
When a freshman arrives at the dessert end of the Union food line and requests a double portion, Mrs. Millic J. Corballis must refuse. "I'm sorry, deary," she apologizes, "but its against the rules." Formerly the boys would take so much ice cream that it spilled from their trays on to the floor: and when an unwary Wellesley girl slipped and skidded on her pride, the one-portion rule was adopted. But, "come back, sweetheart," adds Mrs. Corballis, "there is plenty...
...boys" do come back, greeted by an elfish faced woman, with a Saint Patrick's Day smile. In her green dress, and with her thin white hair pulled back. Mrs. Corballis has served dessert for more than eight years. Before coming to the Union, she worked at the Central Kitchen and the Medical School. Her specialty in the freshman dining hall is dessert, served with a smile, and garnished with "Hello sweetheart, how are you today...
...platters. Although complaining that the new trays were too shallow, the freshmen never uttered a swear word, she says, not even a "damn." "These boys are gentlemen through and through." Also, she guessed, "they must like the food for they never complain, and most of them return for more dessert; except the Rockefeller and Roosevelt type," she philosophized, "they must be satisfied, or else eat again afterwards...