Word: potatoes
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Almost every industry group is touting nutrition. The Washington Apple Commission, a growers' organization based in Wenatchee, calls its fruit the "original health food" and asserts that the natural fiber in apples is an appetite suppressor. The Potato Board is pushing its vegetable as "multivitamins with minerals." Even the Sugar Association has something positive to stress: the sweetener's low 16 calories a teaspoon and its placement on the Food and Drug Administration's "safe" list, a claim artificial alternatives cannot make. "Which would you rather put on your kids' cereal...
What with corked bats and cut balls, and even a minor league potato thrown into one game, baseball has been caught up in equipment this year. But when everything was finally sanded off and boiled away, after the New York Mets were ground into powder and Reggie Jackson evaporated entirely, the Minnesota Twins, the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals awaited either Toronto or Detroit and this week's play-offs...
...NOTEBOOK:Pinezich's goal was her third of the season...She is now the leading scorer on the team with eight points...Barry replaced freshman stopper Tracy Hackeling who claimed to be suffering from Harvard Union potato salad poisoning...
...vending machine become a short-order cook? Apparently yes, but the menu is still limited. Prize Frize of Palm Springs, Calif., last week began selling an automated dispenser of fresh-cooked French fries. For 75 cents or $1, it adds water to a dehydrated potato concentrate, forms the mix into fries, plops them into hot oil, and in one minute delivers a 4-oz. serving...
Although Prize Frize now has French-fry vending to itself, big-name competition is on the way. Boise-based Ore-5Ida, the largest U.S. retailer of 6frozen potato products, is developing a machine that uses frozen fries instead...