Word: grapes
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KUDZU. Imported from the Orient for use as an ornamental vine, kudzu has a wisteria-like purple bloom and a smell similar to that of grape soda. It also grows at a phenomenal rate; in rural areas, naughty children are warned that they will be thrown into the kudzu patch and quickly swallowed up. The threat is not entirely unrealistic. Kudzu grows so fast that it can cover an abandoned car in a few weeks, completely overgrow an empty house in the course of a summer, and keep highway crews busy trying to clear roads. It can even cause communications...
...saga began in 1922, when Italian Immigrants Cesare and Rose Mondavi settled in Lodi, Calif., to start a grape-shipping business. In 1943, drawing on savings and bank loans, the Mondavis acquired the Charles Krug Winery, a dilapidated structure dating to 1861. To own it, the family formed a limited partnership, C. Mondavi & Sons, and later turned it into a corporation. Cesare, Rose, Robert and Peter each took 20%; Daughters Helen and Mary received 10% each. Cesare put Robert in charge and returned to grape shipping. When Peter got out of the Army Air Corps at the end of World...
...your requiem for Red Dye No. 2 [Feb. 2] you say: "Without it, instant chocolate pudding would be greenish, artificially flavored grape soda would look blue," etc. Perhaps banning of all such food-cosmetics would spur a more critical look at the oddly colored subtances that we accept as food...
Without it, instant chocolate pudding would be greenish, artificially flavored grape soda would look blue, and cake mixes would have a lemony-green tinge. The substance is Red Dye No. 2, which has been used for decades to brighten up innumerable products, including frankfurter casings, pet foods, ice cream, gravies, makeup and myriad red pills. About 1 million pounds of the coal-tar-based stuff-a $5 million industry in itself-have ended up annually in more than $10 billion worth of foods, drugs and cosmetics...
Even more interesting are the results from Delano, the center of UFW activities for most of the last decade. The table grape capital is where thousands of farmworkers supposedly went on strike in 1965. For ten years people were supposed to boycott grapes for these workers. But in Delano, the Teamsters have won 18 victories covering 4008 workers and the UFW has won seven covering 569 workers...