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...food they could eat, all the liquor they could drink, beds, valets, and music. And inasmuch as at no time were all the guests incapacitated or otherwise absent, Penrose never left the ball room, the center of the merry-making." Typical Penrose meal: "A dozen raw oysters, chicken gumbo, a terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw and stewed corn, one hot mince pie and a quart of coffee. All of which he stowed away while he drank a bottle of sauterne, a quart of champagne, and several cognacs...
...special to Washington, "Waiter, I will eat this $1.25 luncheon. . . . This gumbo soup. . . . This chicken à la king. . . . This apple...
Advertisers are the greatest Sophists of all time; and today only a keen, dispassionate mind can drive straight to the point of inquiring whether or not a product is really of the slightest use. Weaker souls are at once mired in the gumbo of sentimentality and rhetoric. When they buy, they pay for the most expensive romantic poetry ever written...
...TIME, June 9) I notice the American Bible Society sent more than 5,000,000 Bibles to wartorn, starving China last year. Because the Chinese make soup out of bird-nests, does the Bible Society think they can turn Bibles into Campbellite gumbo? For the money that these Bibles cost, at least 50 million cans of Campbell soups could have been sent to starving China. . . . BOB LYLE Biloxi, Miss...
Campbell's soup menu lists 21 genera, species and varieties of soup: asparagus, bean, beef, bouillon, celery, chicken, chicken gumbo, clam chowder, consomme, julienne, mock turtle, mulligatawny, mutton, oxtail, pea, pepper pot, printainer, tomato, tomato-okra, vegetable, vegetable-beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish...