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Items such a frappes are more expensive here-$1.75 compared to $1.25 at Quincy-but such exotic flavors as M&M and mocha chip make them thick and well worth the price. Other specialties include the Dolly Dog-a bacon and cheese hot dog named for the House superintendent, and Elsie's M&M cookies. "We order them from the same bakery which Elsie's gets its cookies from," said co-owner Stefanie P. Scheer...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: The Grills Next Door | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

...VCRs this year. Cassettes of U.S. movie hits like Patton and Cabaret, plus soft-and hardcore pornography, have proved so popular that a well-known chain of coffee stores was all set to add a line of cut-price VCRs to its menu of Colombian prime and Brazilian Mocha. It backed off only when video shops threatened to retaliate by selling discounted coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: VCRs Go on Fast Forward | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...first," says the mustachioed Ph.D., who has a California masseur's license, "but it will give energy to old and sick animals and stimulate healthy cats." In his home near by, Fox, who is director of the Humane Society of the U.S., demonstrates on his Burmese, Mocha. A chiropractic tail pull straightens the spine, Swedish kneading relaxes the muscles, and Oriental rubbing drains the cat's sinus passages. Mocha stretches in ecstasy. Cats need such relaxation. Even subtle shifts in their owners' life-styles can send kitties into tailspins. When Philadelphia Writer Marc Kaufman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Late one night, after finishing your article on ice cream, I forgot calories, triglycerides and cholesterol. I had to have ice cream, preferably mocha-nut or rum-raisin marshmallow-nut. What had my sensible, nutrition-conscious wife stored in the freezer? Frozen, uncoated, vanilla yogurt bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...that customers who talk to the scoopers get more ice cream. She and her colleagues fight brain-fade by sizing up customers ("definitely a Swiss orange-chip person") the way soda jerks used to do. "The other day a guy came in and ordered a frappe with vanilla and mocha-chip ice cream, vanilla syrup, marshmallow sauce, hot butterscotch and an egg. That was weird." Her word frappe here is a Frenchified New England term for what Midwesterners call a milkshake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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