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...chicken feet, and cow stomach, only to reach for seconds. I’ve nibbled pickled jellyfish and chomped on wild boar. Squeamishness, clearly, is not something I’ve been accused of. But John Barlow’s latest food travelogue, “Everything But the Squeal,” rarely fails to turn my stomach—and I suspect he’d take this as a compliment. “Squeal,” Barlow’s third food-writing venture, catalogues his quest to eat the whole hog in a yearlong journey...
...Woohoo!” The Pillsbury Doughboy stood in front of the General Mills (GM) table , instantly recognizable in its white chef’s hat and expansive stomach—sure enough, the Doughboy responded to FM’s poke with a squeal of irrepressible glee. Emily S. High ’06, a marketing associate at GM, stood calmly by while the Doughboy began shimmying its body from side to side. “It’s definitely drawn a lot of people to our booth,” High said. One enterprising job-hunter even...
...also, says Robert F. Bruner, dean of the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, a classic "prisoner's dilemma." In game theory, the dilemma involves two arrestees deciding whether to squeal. Here it's about whether to pull your money from the market. For each worried individual, the rational answer is yes, but the financial system is far better off if everybody agrees not to. The invisible hand of the market can't deliver the best outcome; collective action, Bruner says, is the only good answer...
Anyone who has loved cotton candy, sno-cones, the smells of competing barbecue booths and the squeal of a Yorkshire pig can appreciate your Essay on county fairs [July 23]. I was taken back to the nostalgic time of an exciting week at a fair in Carroll County, Ind., more than 35 years ago. Thank you for reminding me that those smells, sights and moments untouched by city life still exist for many kids today...
...Halloween, which means that the 3,000 to 5,000 haunted houses across the nation are creaking open their doors for business. For about $15 a person, hundreds of thousands of kids and adults willingly squeal and scream their way through attractions that are now so realistic that what once was cold spaghetti in a bowl is now, most certainly, brains...