Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emergency supply of chopped onions hidden away and given only to those customers "who insist they cannot eat a hamburger without them." Customers have generally been cooperative because, as one short-order cook put it, "they are not buying onions for their homes either." At Manhattan's Soup Burg, they claim that the cost of raw onion per hamburger is up to 70 or 80. "It's getting to be the most expensive part of the hamburger," says one of the waiters. The National Press Club in Washington has eliminated the thick onion garnish from...
...Roth, the brilliant cocktail-party mimic, hilarious storyteller and improviser of ingenious bits. His university degrees were set aside for the lessons learned on Newark's front stoops, where wisecracks and putdowns were the comic antitoxins against WASP sting and the guilt that could result from calling chicken soup consomm...
...time of excess, "everything is marketable," says Bucky's neighbor, a hack writer who lives on canned tomato soup and saltines. He is working on a new literary form: pornography for children. Globke, Bucky's anxious manager, is a winsome monster because he is totally aware of what he is. "I'm not new money, new culture, new consciousness," he says. "I emerge from a distinct tradition. Bad taste...
Fish Heads. Before 1969 food was kept at near starvation level at the more severe camps. For many prisoners, there were only two meals a day, six hours apart, and they might consist of nothing more than a bowl of watery soup, occasionally with a fish head in it. The bread was often wormy and the rice sandy. Lieut. Commander Knutson said that he and his fellow prisoners ate with one hand on their rice and the other on their soup bowl in order to keep the cockroaches from taking over...
...luncheon that was spiced with Bocuse's commentary. It began with sausage in a brioche ("You really have to eat sausage when you come to Lyon") and continued with pâté de foie gras that had been made the same morning. Next came the shrimp soup ("Escoffier would have been horrified at how simple it is. Just some shrimp, white wine, heavy cream, butter, a few shallots"). The fourth course was wild duck in green pepper sauce ("If you come in December, you can eat duck that I shoot myself"). Though sated by now, Englund continued through...