Word: mix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Averill Q. Mix...
...uncertainty was expressed colorfully by Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker when he described Reaganomics as a "riverboat gamble." But there is an irresistible appeal to fall in behind a man when he promises adventure, even when one may not agree with him. Tennyson said it well. "I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair...
...psychology mix-in ladled freely on the expensive-ice-cream phenomenon proposes that when a meal in a good restaurant costs what a used car once did, and when a new car costs what a house once did, a $2 cone is the only way most of us have to gratify our wistful yearning for luxury. Cheap at the price...
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...
...that not all natural flavors are vivid enough (Mattus has failed so far to make a peach ice cream that he considers good, and Häagen-Dazs will not sell peach until he succeeds). Raising butterfat much above the 16% or 17% level can produce a greasy mix that for some reason resists flavoring. Staleness kills ice cream, and natural brands, such as Breyers or Häagen-Dazs, to some extent become unnatural when they are shipped across the country and stored for too many weeks. Ice crystals form and texture coarsens when any ice cream is melted...