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Cupcakes are, but doughnuts aren't. Ritz crackers are, but saltines aren't. Granola bars are, but granola cereal isn't. Confused? So are shoppers in California, where the state government last week extended its sales tax to candy and "snack foods." But the exemption for food products remains, forcing beleaguered bureaucrats into an exercise in semantics: What is a "food," and what is a "snack"? The extra $200 million may help balance the books, but it has nearly unbalanced grocers as they try to price chocolate chips (a tax-exempt baking product) vs. chocolate kisses (candy, which is taxed...
...Palm Beach, where the average house costs nearly $1 million and mutts have been known to snack on biscuits shaped like Bentley sedans, this had been a quiet season. The Trumps have split but are now too poor by local standards to make much of a splash. There had been no divorce to equal that of Peter and Roxanne Pulitzer, which featured cocaine, a trumpet and a sexual threesome...
Students said the van did not escape the crash unscathed--its windshield was cracked and its left side was seriously dented. But the greatest signs of damage inside the van, they said, consisted of large quantities of spilled snack food...
Rudenstine declined the flight attendant's offer of a beverage and a tasty, cheese-and-crackers snack and chose instead to read, as the plane cruised along at 21,000 feet...
Rudenstine declined the flight attendant's offer of a beverage and a tasty, cheese-and-crackers snack and chose instead to read, as the plane cruised along at 21,000 feet...