Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RAVING SUGAR HIGH. Great Kaleidoscopic smears of chocolate pudding, double oreo, and black raspberry goo up my arms; hot fudge is dribbling across my wrists and my scooper is slicing flesh off my fingers as I mash up another smoosh...
...Whoops, sorry." I smile a sugar-high smile and, jitterbugging to the music that's struggling out of the backroom speakers, spin back to the ice cream tubs...
...table Moses demonstrated how the rhinoceros thinks. He used the saltshaker to represent the American visitor. The pepper shaker would be the rhino. The sugar bowl would be the boulder that stood between them. "Be careful," Moses warned. He moved the rhino in an ominous drift to its left. The rhino began to circle the sugar bowl, using the bowl as cover in order to ambush the saltshaker (the visitor) from behind. The visitor became a naked and oblivious wanderer on the white linen plain. He stood frozen and defenseless as the rhino came...
Again, the economy is in a terrible state. The country has endured four years of "negative growth"--declining prices for major export crops, especially sugar. It suffers under a per capita debt burden of $1500, but per capita earnings are only about half that. Aquino's extraordinarily muddled set of policies and priorities in response to these problems conspire to make a bad situation even worse...
...diet provided by her family was large and exotic, the food was anything but. "My maternal grandmother was in residence during most of my childhood, and she decided what we would eat. She believed in having only the simplest food -- always fish on Friday, very little meat, no salt, sugar or other seasonings, and absolutely no coffee." A great revelation concerning the wonders of food came in 1929, when Fisher, while in France, dined at the Hostellerie de la Poste in Avallon. "The dish that forever changed my idea about food was mashed potatoes, dripping with butter," she recalls...