Word: lactaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sundae. I returned to the table holding a dish heaped with two large scoops of vanilla ice cream and literally dripping with hot fudge. As I zealously prepared to devour this modern-day ambrosia, I was struck with a horrible thought: I had forgotten to bring with me my Lactaid tablets! (Some of The Crimson's lactose-intolerant readers may not be aware that the Lactaid company also produces chewable tablets which enable some intolerants to digest milk products, if one-half to three tablets are consumed with one's first bite of ice cream or sip of milk...
Element 2: The Harvard administration mistreats lactose intolerants. When I was a first year student, and I though I could change the world, I also thought I could get the Union to stock specially digestible milk called lactaid. The Union supervisor told me that storage space was available, but only if I paid for the products myself...
This arrangement worked for two days, and which point my lactaid disappeared. I bought some more, only to have that batch stolen too. Finally I complained to the supervisor that I had spent $20 and had taken just two sips of lactaid. She gave me a special bag for my food, and marked it "Do not touch Josh Sharfstein...
...never tried to keep lactaid in the union (or change the world) again...
...dress up like 18th century revolutionaries and dump 50 barrels of dining hall ice cream into the Charles River? Why not spray heavy cream on Harvard administrators until they provide free lactaid in the dining halls...