Word: stilton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coated clerks, who preside over stacks of specialty foods that can quickly run a grocery order to sky-high figures. Christmas accounts for 25% of Fortnum's business; last week 700 employees hustled to fill orders from eminent customers for such items as Beluga caviar ($44 a lb.), Stilton cheese, smoked Scotch salmon and pate de foie gras en croute, flown from Strasbourg. Almost every order includes that centerpiece of British Christmas, Fortnum's plum pudding, 70,000 of which will be sold in London or mailed around the world this year...
...edge of war. Apparently, Hitler's propagandists believed Plum's breezy account of his misadventures as British Civilian Prisoner 796 would lull U.S. hostility by picturing the Nazis as good-natured nitwits in the inane, innocuous image of Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay-Phipps or G. D'Arcy (Stilton) Cheesewright...
...readers of U.S. magazine ads, Great Britain is a land of rare roast beef and rich Stilton cheese, fox hunts and elegant cars, castles and thatched cottages. It is peopled by snobby, sophisticated men who wear tweeds, raincoats and aloof looks. They drink only tea, Scotch, sherry, or gin and tonic. Such is Madison Avenue's image of Great Britain, and to many an Englishman it is "offensive and often unimpressive." So charged the London Economist last week in a critique of U.S. efforts to sell Britain and its wares. "The image that emerges." said the Economist...