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...explains, just a Snickers bar and some penny candy. The average sale is, in fact, about $1.50, Higgins says, but that takes into account the 340 sales a day of a single can of soda, the people who come just for a break and buy a single three-cent mint, and, conversely, the ones who are locked into a pattern of four or five dollars worth a night...
...Gelato in San Francisco. Nonsense, says a newcomer to the discussion, which started as a modest watercooler filibuster and has quickly become an anarchic mob scene. If you believe such claims it is because-you poor, butter-fat-starved, crushed-strawberry-and fresh-peach-and Oreo-mint-deficient ignoramous-you have never laid tongue to a rich, chewy, almost dripping sugar-cone full of sinfully delightful ice cream made by the enchanted trolls of Robert's in Southampton...
...dessert. They are wrong. What is clear is that at this stage in the decline of the West, instinct tells us that we have a right to live in the golden age of something. Why should that something be acid rain or rocket launchers? Why not-an Oreo-mint cone, please, with a scoop of cantaloupe, and jimmies-do our wistful dreaming about one of civilization's benign marvels, ice cream? -By John Skow...
Zogby talked freely about the problems of using natural flavors. Real vanilla beans add flecks to the mix, and some customers used to the cheaper artificial flavor vanillin complain of dirty ice cream. Real mint flavor is as clear as gin, not green. A blend of pumpkin and squash tastes more like pumpkin than pumpkin alone does, but squash ice cream sounds dreadful, so the firm's flavorers had to work harder and stick with pumpkin. Most cherry ice cream contains bright red bits of cherries that have been embalmed, as maraschinos are-bleached white with formaldehyde and then...
...this month, the police called Horwitz's widow. They had found the car, the very same 1969 Buick Electra that had disappeared eleven years earlier. The auto is in mint condition, from the paint job to the power gewgaws. Says Sergeant Richard Nazzaro, who with his partner found the car: "What caught our eye was that it was so sharp looking." Their eyes also caught an improper license plate; the driver was stopped and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. Sylvia Horwitz is shaken by the recovery. "It was eerie," she says. At least...