Word: sandwich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea, the caller is more than likely to be some reporter or talk-show crocodile wanting to know about the Dull Men's Club. Dullness had everyone excited there for a while, and it kept things jumping among the regulars at the café, a neighborhood beer-and-sandwich joint in San Francisco's Mission District. Now everyone is bored, though. The T shirts finally came, but no one feels like wearing them. Dullness has lost its madcap charm...
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...
...usual ("Send me everything on marijuana") and the unusual (a picture of a stained-glass window showing monks riding bicycles). Requests for pictures that the staff believes to be nonexistent are met with gentle regrets. Among the most frequently sought-after: the sinking of the Titanic, the Earl of Sandwich eating a sandwich, and the elusive Gabriel Fahrenheit, developer of the thermometric scale, an authentic picture of whom would earn a $1,000 reward from the archive. Fees for the archive's service (exclusive of royalties) can range from...
...middle of a sandwich, Liberman looked up to see Thomas Crooks, master of Dudley House, peering over at him. Crooks took him aside and politely reminded him that the University ruling prevented him "from ever setting foot on University property again." (Crooks says he does not remember telling any students to leave, and calls such statements "silly...
...charm. She tells how to confect Wiltshire lardy cake and Yorkshire hot wine pudding, chickens as lizards and rum roast of lamb (for the sailor's return) -not to mention belly-warming Bedfordshire clangers, Oxfordshire sweet devil or the great Melton Mowbray pie, which long before the sandwich was the foxhunter's favorite lunch munch...