Word: muffin
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Take the morning ride up. If you don’t first try to hide behind someone nervously sipping a venti Frappuccino latte, you can be sure to seem otherwise occupied by stiring your own iced something. By the time you get to the top floor that blueberry muffin you saved for later is all but gone—stuffing your mouth with food saves you from unbearable small talk...
...discover, for example, that one raspberry tart is the equivalent of eight cups of raspberries with whipped topping and that one scone has the same number of calories as a bowl of oatmeal with peaches plus an English muffin with jam plus a bowl of cherries plus a bowl of cornflakes with banana plus two slices of light toast with marmalade plus a bowl of orange and pineapple slices...
...will be amused or annoyed by the final product is an open question. Director Spike Jonze is a Seinfeldian surrealist, and it's fun, especially if you happen to be a writer, to see Charlie trying to concentrate on his script while visions of coffee and a banana-nut muffin dance distractingly in his head...
While on this tour of New York’s landmarks, we were constantly reminded of what it meant to be a New Yorker—riding a horse-drawn carriage in the Park, trying to redeem bottles and cans for ten cents each and opening restaurants selling muffin tops. Each of these seemingly crazy schemes are nothing but metaphors for what makes a Real New Yorker—the desire for excitement, for passion, for something more from life than the commonplace...
...Yorkers willing to try something new and different in the world of dating can head over to the Drip Cafe in Manhattan, grab a cup of coffee and a muffin and get fixed up for a date. Drip patrons scan anonymous written profiles of other singles, indicate which ones sound interesting and, if both parties agree, have a Drip staff member arrange a date for them, according to Nancy Slotnick, the cafe's founder and chief executive officer. Each couple has its first date at the coffee bar, with a Drip waiter or waitress making the introductions. There...