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...appetit, consumers. Help is on the way. That inescapable roadside institution, McDonald's, has been fined $5,000 for mislabeling frozen orange juice as freshly squeezed, and calling a concoction "maple syrup" that had nowhere enough maple to stand up to the name. In addition to folks at the Golden Arches, Baskin-Robbins, the International House of Pancakes and Hamburger Hamlets have all been foiled by a Los Angeles campaign to enforce honesty in eateries: it is now against the law, for example, to describe a nondairy product as "cream," or lower-grade beef as "prime." Like truth inadvertising...
Spoonful powdered orange drink added to glass of tap water, bowl of puff-milled corn, sugar, corn syrup, molases, salt, partially hydrogenated coconut oil, sodium ascorbate, BHA added to preserve product freshness...
...journalist in a medium where economic news is usually relegated to some place between the weather forecast and the cough syrup ads. Wearing one of his Rukeyser Enterprises hats, the WSW moderator is a hot item on the lecture circuit, where he gives about 100 speeches a year, com mands a top fee (at least $4,000 per appearance) and is booked through next May. He also turns out a thrice-weekly column on politics and economics that appears in 170 newspapers, has written one bestseller (How to Make Money in Wall Street) and is preparing another book on economic...
Chew Brew Peppermint, spearmint, cinnamon and other traditional stick flavors are old chew to the growing band of gumo-philes who prefer to make their own. Using a powdered gum base called POW!, combined with corn syrup, confectioners' sugar and just about any flavoring and color imaginable, chew-it-yourselfers can concoct a 25-ft. length of bubble gum from a $2, 2-lb. package of mix-about half the price of the manufactured product. Says POW! Entrepreneur Fred Starkey: "If scotch is your favorite drink, flavor it with scotch. If you like fruit cocktail, use that...
...washed away by subsequent downpours. The price of lettuce on the East Coast rose to a staggering $1 and even more per head. Observes Rancher Willie Chamberlin: "It's a lot like a breakfast table. Sometimes you have a little pancakes left over. Sometimes you have a little syrup left over. The trick is to make it come out even...