Word: muffins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California, the state asked Procter & Gamble to take Duncan Hines muffin mixes off the shelves, and in Massachusetts, the public health commissioner recommended that consumers return 46 different cake mixes and grain products to the store. The cause of the panicked shelf cleaning was a chemical called ethylene dibromide, or EDB. A highly effective pesticide similar to DDT, it is also a dangerous carcinogen. Farmers have used EDB to keep bugs off grain and citrus fruit for more than 30 years, and scientists have known the cancer risk for the past ten years. But the Federal Government has been slow...
...Tommy's just down Mt. Auburn St., is every bit the venerable institution, having served pinball-players and procrastinators for over 25 years now. The cheese steak sub is marvelous at 1 a.m. With these two stalwarts in tow, you'll find little reason to check out Mug and Muffin over the summer, except perhaps for a bagel or blueberry muffin for breakfast...
...asks the counterman if his bagel is ready yet. Just about, the counterman says, and he throws a couple of bagels on the grill. Things are busy for him, even at this hour. A thin man with a bad crossbite is drinking black coffee and waiting for a blueberry muffin, another guy with a German accent is hunched over a plate of fried eggs and toast, and a third customer is sipping at a lime rickey and watching his raw hamburger patty start to smolder. That's close to capacity for The Tasty--only three or four stools around...
...relationships among Square concessions often comes closer to family feeling than competition. Stores and restaurants like Brigham's and Mug'n Muffin--which Higgins feels "complement" rather than harm his business--send him emergency messengers when they run out of supplies. When Brigham's needs milk in midafternoon, Higgins shrugs and sells a harried employee all he can spare, about 45 half-gallon cartons. "In ten minutes someone will come in and be bummed out because there's no cream," he predicts, "but what...
From the first scene in Part I, in which members of the audience are handed tasty scones, courtesy of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin (and Crumpet) & Punctual Delivery Company, to the emotionally devastating finale of Part II, a riot of incident fills every corner of the stage. Dialogue scenes are intercut: one pair of actors converses, then falls silent as another, perhaps standing between them, provides exposition on the same subject. The actors coalesce to form an encroaching wall of bodies, the blinking façade of a rich man's house, a Hydrahead of starving Londoners, an aristocrat...