Word: mints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jack's also offers a wide array of edible (and not-so-edible) products. Trick your friends over drinks with floating eyeballs or ice cubes containing bugs. Offer dinner guests a bagel with a "cockroach surprise" and for an after-dinner mint, give them a piece of garlic-, pepper-, hot- or sour-flavored chewing gum. Or perhaps some oh-so-refined mustard candy...
Apart from the traditionalist's favorite, chocolate, the selection of fudge flavors is remarkably large: vanilla, rocky road, maple, mint chocolate chip, creamsicle, chocolate peanut butter and walnut are a few tasty choices. The ever-ambiguous flavor of the month adds a bit of surprise for regulars. If affecting a cosmopolitan air is a priority, then there's always cappuccino or penuchi fudge. Should Mom and Dad enjoy the eats during a visit, these wonderfully calorie-packed concoctions are also available nation-wide, thanks to Billings & Stover's mail-order service (order forms are on the counter or call...
...hold that mint julep, Rhett: the flag in question is done in red, black and green--the colors of African liberation. In the heart of the city where the first shots of the Civil War rang out, Sherman Evans and Angel Quintero, both 34, both black, have fired a volley of their own. At NuSouth, their 10-month-old boutique, all the gear features that red, black and green flag logo, a symbol, they say, of racial solidarity. "It's about unification, not polarization," says Quintero, noting that most of his customers are white. The line has caught the attention...
...with a mesh to put your tea leaves in--and a three-minute hourglass timer to make sure you steep the tea for just the right amount of time. If you desire a souvenir of your visit, you can choose to buy anything from a teapot drip catcher to mint-tea jelly...
...professional funny person's uniform of jeans, sneakers, T shirt (and optional Oxford shirt, unbuttoned), surrounded by exactly the kind of stuff a Long Island high school kid from the '60s might buy if he grew up to be a multimillionaire--car models, superhero models, Mets memorabilia, a mint-condition Schwinn Sting-Ray--Seinfeld comes across as a relatively contented man, perhaps the first self-actualized comic in history...