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...packages of its Everyday Inkjet Paper contain 400 sheets instead of 500. "It's almost like going to buy eggs and finding 11 in the carton," says Edgar Dworsky, founder of ConsumerWorld.org a consumer-advocacy website. Most shoppers never notice a couple of ounces missing from a can of soup or a few feet gone from a roll of paper towels--which is what manufacturers are counting on. "Consumers really don't have in their minds that they have to check the net weight or net count every time they buy something," says Dworsky. "It's the perfect consumer scam...
...decline. Dr. Laurel Coleman, a geriatrician in Augusta, Maine, gives her patients written prescriptions for weekly weight-training sessions. "Some of them say, 'Oh, come on, you're kidding!' because they don't picture themselves lifting weights," she says. "So we start off doing biceps curls with cans of soup, or leg extensions with tiny ankle weights...
Oliver vividly remembers Law going out of his way to ensure that the vegetable soup served in the dining hall on Friday did not contain any beef stock...
...civet cat, a nocturnal mammal similar to the weasel, is served in southern China in a variety of ways: roasted whole, braised in brown sauce or standing in for tiger flesh in the classic Dragon, Tiger and Phoenix Soup. (The dragon is snake meat, the phoenix ordinary chicken.) Some diners believe cooked civet has medicinal properties, such as a warming effect during the winter months...
There's nothing like rounding the corner of a Himalayan trail in the rain and finding your cook making a hot meal. Unless your cook is Sikkimese. Our cook-he never offered a name-made good tea and noodle soup. But the rest of his food was an appalling improvisation-exemplified by his signature deep-fried cheese-and-tomato-and-peanut-butter-and-jam sandwich...