Word: pumpkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Right now I really don't have too many plans of my own," Henderson said. "But it would be nice to do a satisfactory job, and have Dean Stendhal think so too, when I turn back into a pumpkin on June...
...dark of that night a huge meal was partially consumed. Steak was there and eaten, and yogurt with kumquats and plum wine from Japan was drunk and coconuts were cracked with hammers and given to dogs. But the piece of resistance of the engagement feast was a vast baked pumpkin, so large it had barely squeezed in and out of Merilee's oven, and filled with breadcrumbs and a surprise, with comfrey and tomatoes, with currants and dill and with a delicious white powder from the cabinet which not even Merilee could identify; and when the love of her twenty...
...told him of a little epiphany she had at the Alpha B: all those Crackerjacks boxes sitting there in their rows. Unwanted for themselves. Desirable only for the prize inside. And what if one box could just for once be the goody, the prize inside itself? hence the baked pumpkin and the whole thing, Marilee explained...
...familiar face known only as "Pumpkin" said. "When you've been out of action for four years like Lassiter has, it's got to hurt, and I don't care...
...What is it? "A pasteurized blend of water, hydrogenated vegetable oil, sugar, starch, sodium-phosphate, derivatives of mono-and diglycerides, sodium caseinate, polyoxyethylene (20), sorbitan tristearate. salt, cellulose gum, calcium chloride, vanilla and artificial flavor. Charged with nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide." It goes well with pumpkin pie. Answer: a dessert topping. Makes you wonder, doesn...