Word: flavorings
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...could go on listing antecdotes, most of which are amusing only to me and those involved in the stories, but instead I'll just tell a few that might have a flavor of your year to come...
...question as they go about their work and play. Whether shopping for vegetables among the hundreds of Korean-run greengroceries in Manhattan, or stopping for the night at one of the innumerable Indian-owned hotels in California, Americans are increasingly finding that entire businesses have acquired a foreign-born flavor. Indeed, through a process that is at times too slow to be noticed and at others astonishingly quick, industrious newcomers have been carving out miniature monopolies for themselves in corners of the U.S. economy...
...Coca-Cola to start making the old Coke again." After receiving 60,000 calls, the line was disconnected last week. Mullins talks about filing a class action against the company, claiming that he and millions of other Coke lovers have been deprived of their freedom to choose the old flavor. He says he now plans to try for a seat on Coke's board of directors...
...half of those who have tried the new Coke say it's time to switch from Coke, and the overwhelming majority say they'll switch to Pepsi." Roger Enrico, president of Pepsi-Cola USA, said his surveys show that 60% of new Coke drinkers see it as "weaker in flavor delivery." But hold on, countercountered Coke. Pepsi's sales figures are distorted because they include Pepsi's entire array of soft drinks, notably Diet Pepsi and the new lemon-flavored Slice. Reliable figures will not be available until July or August...
Most people feel gossip's special fascination "as horror or as attraction," observes the author. "Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears about it a faint flavor of the erotic . . . Surely everyone feels -- although some suppress -- the same prurient interest in others' privacies, what goes on behind closed doors." Novelist Margaret Drabble is brought on to elevate the tone: "Much fiction operates in the spirit of inspired gossip. It speculates on little evidence, inventing elaborate and artistic explanations of little incidents and overheard remarks that often leave the evidence far behind." In that observation lies the key to this...