Word: gooey
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Despite Teddy’s somewhat dubious accounts of his own irreproachable foot hygiene—no, really, once you have stepped barefoot on one piece of gooey street gum, you’ve stepped on them all—the benefits of life without shoes seemed pretty compelling by the end of our walk together...
Complicated exposition falls away with costumes, special effects, good-looking actors and a protagonist who can shoot a white, gooey liquid 100 feet into the air from his wrists. When the genre is the star, the script doesn't have...
...coupled, Valentine’s Day is a gooey holiday: heart-shaped lollipops, cheesy greeting cards and a mutually dependent, sensitive partner who has strategically arranged rose petals on a bed draped in freshly pressed satin sheets. But for singles, the day can seem more like a burden as they endure exposure to public displays of affection and the abrasive hum of those three little words: “I love you.” Fret not! FM offers three other little words guaranteed to combat loneliness: Do it yourself...
There used to be fruit snacks in the cabinet, like Gushers, those capsules of wonderfully colored gooey chemicals that tasted sweet and for some reason were packaged and sold to parents of small children. Now that no one packs school lunches in my house anymore, the former snack cabinet is stacked high with cans of tomato paste, tuna fish, and other non-perishables. If my dad has been to the natural foods co-op recently, there may be a bag of “chunks of energy” that seem to be made entirely of congealed tofu and birdseed...
What American export is hot in Japan these days? Cinnamon buns--big, gooey pastries with an aroma that could send you into insulin shock. In 1999, when Atlanta-based Cinnabon opened its first outlet there, 300 people lined up to buy its buns, says Gregg Kaplan, president of the chain. Rather than try to sell cinnamon buns in Japan on its own, the company partnered with Sugakico, a successful operator of a chain of ramen-noodle restaurants. Two years later, sales are five times as high at Japanese outlets as at those in the U.S. of comparable size and location...