Word: floured
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...cultural coincidence!-of Egypt, Easter Island and Polynesia. The Ra was loaded with over a ton of fresh water in authentic Egyptian jars and almost twice that weight in food. Menu samples: sheep cheese in olive oil and sello (ground almonds, honey, butter, flour and dates). Coops enclosed live chickens and a duck named Sinbad. There was also a pet monkey named Safi. With Heyerdahl sailed an oddly assorted crew of six: a Russian doctor, an Italian mountain climber, a Mexican anthropologist, an Egyptian judo champion, and Abdullah, a desert dweller from Chad who did not even know...
Partial Relief. Those complaining of loss of the sense of taste said that eating was like chewing and swallowing flour paste or sawdust. Those suffering from loss of the sense of smell reported that they were unable to detect the aroma of foods or the odors of smoke or escaping cooking gas. Several women reported that they had served rancid foods to their families because they did not notice the spoilage...
Name of the Grain. Exports of top quality European wheat flour, for example, receive a subsidy equal to 80% of the world market price. Taking advantage of that, one enterprising German trader was convicted of making several hundred thousand dollars by exporting certified "finest wheat flour" to Switzerland and pocketing the subsidy. When EEC officials finally inspected a shipment, they discovered that the flour actually was a nonsubsidized mixture of cattle feed. Conversely, "cattle feed" imported into the Common Market duty-free often turns out to be a mixture of two high-tariff commodities, wheat flour and sugar...
Miraculous Mayonnaise. In a similar case, a German merchant is being tried in Hamburg on charges of illegally pocketing $8,000,000 in subsidies. His 500-ton cargo ships would load up with maize flour (30% subsidy), and in mid-sea they would turn around and head for home. Their expensive cargoes were reimported as cattle feed (no tariff), and the journey would begin all over again. Other revolving traders, according to EEC tariff sheriffs, export melted butter (100% subsidy) that on the return trip miraculously becomes mayonnaise (no tariff). All that is needed for the transformation...
Cambridge does not have a food stamp program. Instead, there is surplus food doled out in cans and bags at local distribution spots. This "food"-which the government has no use for and generously throws to the poor-consists of delicacies such as powdered milk, lard, flour, canned hamburger meat, spam, and powdered potatoes. Much of it is inedible at best...