Word: peppers
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...snack flavors seem to clump around versions of salt and pepper, wasabi and pickle. But the flavor breakthrough has been to finally combine the taste of buffalo wings with the flavor of blue-cheese dip. Kettle Krinkle Cut Chips Buffalo Bleu is a thick potato chip that manages to deliver the slight spice of barbecue with a cool, creamy aftertaste. It's impressive, but there's a vinegar taste that gets in the way. Doritos Blazin' Buffalo & Ranch isn't nearly as complicated, but it takes that weird Cool Ranch flavor I never liked, puts it up front and then...
...there's more than a bit of shadowboxing going on. Republican consultant Mike Murphy, who has worked for G.O.P. contenders John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, says he always hangs a map behind his desk--and has a campaign intern pepper it randomly with colored stickpins--so that visitors will be impressed with his campaign's "field operation." The real measure of a campaign in the early stages, he says, is often what it isn't doing. "If you hear one campaign is talking to Mayor Bag O'Doughnuts, you feel...
...Finally, there's "Pepper ... and Salt," the small cartoon that has been running for 57 years and that has moved back - apparently due to popular demand - to the Journal's opinion pages. I've always felt uneasy around "Pepper ... and Salt," a bit like I do watching Jay Leno, whose high corn factor and consistent unfunniness make me cringe. But what do I know? America seems to love the guy, along with that little cartoon in the Journal...
...still I was thrown off by the table-sized basket we were led to. The staff at Asmara had clearly seen my look of confusion before, because the menu explained everything: the injera; the name of the traditional dish of chicken, meat, or peas and lentils in red pepper sauce (“wot”); the name of the table (“mosob”); and the presentation of our food (on a single tray placed inside the basket). Our server kindly recommended a dish called “sega bebaynetu,” a sampling of chicken...
WHERE DOES PEPPER COME FROM...