Word: gumdrop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punny possibilities. He turned out a saga called-what else?-"The Italian Confection." The scenario involves an economics professor named Mel Marzi (played by Henry Fondant) who comes to Rome for an International Monetary Fund meeting. En route, Marzi stops at a tobacco shop. "I'm a gumdrop in here to get some coins for the Trevi fountain," he says. Instead of a few coins, his change is a chocolate bonbon. "Nougat lire," the tobacconist explains. "Plus ca change, plus c'est la creme chose," observes the professor...
...good ice cream," Robbins notes. "They have had plenty of ice cream of a sort, the cheap stuff sold in supermarkets, but it wasn't fun ice cream." By rapidly rotating his flavors, Robbins hopes to create a nationwide cryogenic euphoria. Only once has he erred. Goody Goody Gumdrop, with tiny gumdrops blended into tutti-frutti-flavor ice cream, was invented in 1965. But the gumdrops kept freezing solid. "When people bit into it," Robbins recalls, "it was like biting a rock. That was the only flavor we had to drop. We were afraid someone would break a tooth...