Word: freezers
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Another former employee, Ayaad Assaad, whose lawsuit over his 1997 dismissal led to the release of the Army documents, says he got a call last year from security reporting a power outage in a freezer; when Assaad explained he had not worked there in years, the guard said his was the only name on the security roster. Assaad also complains that he was the chief target of Camel Club harassment. The Army has confirmed the charge and issued an apology...
...that they are likely to vanish altogether in another 15 years. And if that happens, Thompson realized, then all that will remain of Kilimanjaro's crowning white glory will be whatever fragments he and his colleagues managed to bring back to Ohio State and stash in their Arctic-cold freezer...
...Tongchart's freezer holds 10 tons of boiled and freeze-dried giant water bugs, dung beetles, grasshoppers and a fine assortment of succulent worms. The 40-year-old former butcher and noodle salesman is president of United Insects of Phitsanulok, and that, he says, makes him the king bee in Thailand's estimated $50 million-a-year edible bug industry. "Business is so good that I don't have to deliver," he says. "If you want bugs, you come...
...market is ready. When Tongdaeng's crickets are big enough to eat, he gathers them up and delivers them to "bug king" Tongchart. With business still brisk, there is always room for more in his malodorous freezer. And Tongchart is already dreaming up new ventures, like canning bugs and exporting them to new markets. Maybe even to Europe or America. Maybe. Or maybe that is better left as food for thought...
After that, every time I flew home from school, I would go back to Pilsen and buy a box of 20 dozen tortillas that I would take on the plane and stuff into the tiny freezer of my fifth-floor walk-up on West 108th Street, where I was the first Mexican on the block...