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Farm Bill. In his budget-cutting fervor, Reagan has proposed slashing or eliminating entirely a bale of venerable farm-aid programs. For example, he proposes moderating commodity price supports for most farm products, abolishing some special programs like peanut acreage allotments, and pulling the plug on the Rural Electrification Administration. As chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Jesse Helms of North Carolina has junked the Administration's farm bill in favor of his own, more expensive version; the House Agriculture Committee, meanwhile, has endorsed a bill that, complains a White House aide, "totally disregards what Reagan wanted." The Administration...
...will find out, no doubt, that Americans who do not patronize les grands restaurants live on substances like le cake mix, JellO, peanut butter, ketchup, Coke and orangeade without orange. Surfeited with frozen victuals and "baby food," they have lost all contact with natural flavors. From an early age they grow fat on sugars, gassy drinks, bread and superfluous vitamins. "No wonder," say GM, "that American dentists are the best in the world or that the gastroenterologists are so busy." Evidemment, you must eat only in the very best places, and your first duty on landing is to make your...
However thin you spread it, peanut butter is in short supply and increasingly expensive as a result of last summer's drought in the producing states. The impending sandwich crisis may be averted, however. From Texas, which also helps fill the oil gap, comes a substitute spread that sticks to roofs of mouths as fondly as the real stuff. Made from organically grown glandless cotton nut kernels mixed with 15% peanut oil, the American nut butter is higher in protein and lower in calories than peanut preserve. The Madeleine & Charlotte's brand, available in chunky salted and creamy...
Another alternative to peanut butter is sunflower spread. It has the texture and appearance of peanut butter and sells for $1.99 per 18-oz. jar. In addition to roasted sunflower seeds, ingredients include hydrogenated rape seed, which is commonly fed to birds and is said not to stick to beaks. As for the flavor, both cottonseed and sunflower spreads compare to the real thing like, say, California sauternes to Chateau d'Yquem...
...down the steps of Air Force One into the waiting arms of the Secret Service and then, in the ongoing battle against inflation donning a big red button with the letters WIN embossed in white. And who can forget Ford's classic performance in the debate with a onetime peanut farmer, when in the century's greatest diplomatic coup he simultaneously liberated Poland and lost an election...