Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago's Southwest Side. The three-to four-hour Super Bowl of Gluttony begins with appetizers (bean salad, salami and pepperoni) and a vast antipasto tray, continues with soup, tossed salad, stuffed peppers, ribs, eggplant parmigiana, veal scallopini, chicken cacciatore and piles of pasta. Dessert includes pastries, fruit and cookies, followed by a nut cart. If anyone complains that he is still hungry, Manager Peter Bianco Jr. has a secret weapon that few could stomach: a huge submarine sandwich topped by a "Champion" trophy. "Nobody's finished the whole thing yet," says Bianco. "If anyone really...
Each of the tables set up at the Armory had as its centerpiece a platter of fruit, cheese and bread. The bars at the corners of the hall served wine and champagne as the only hard drinks. Incredibly, there was no beer. "A political rally without beer?" one reporter exclaimed. "I never thought the state of Massachusetts would sink...
Musing on his dilemma as he flew across the darkened country on Dakota Queen II, McGovern slumped wearily in his seat and nibbled grapes from a tray of fruit. Somehow combining hope with despair, he confessed: "I don't understand the polls, but I never understood them in the primaries, either. If we can win in California and New York and then add Illinois and Ohio and some others...
...hero of Booth Tarkington's Huckleberry novels thought the "winny-wurst" was "all nectar and ambrosia. ..it was rigidly forbidden by the home authorities." Like Penrod, contemporary Americans tend to ignore authorities; they consume 15 billion hot dogs every year - possibly even because of the warnings. Forbidden fruit tastes delicious; why not proscribed wieners...
...rope, only to find two mice gnawing through it from above. Represented by chattering dentures extended on long poles, they are about to sever his lifeline, when he spies a strawberry. Seizing and eating it, he reaches a complete enlightenment of Zen, found through the perfection of the fruit, and abandoning his mortal fate with a blissful cry of "Strawberry!", he drops to the waiting tigers below as the stage blacks...