Word: tasters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...globe, from Burma to the Baltic Sea. Already, says president and co-founder Robin Steele, Ambergene scientists have identified filamentous fungi similar to those that have produced a distinguished line of antibiotics. They have also brewed batches of ale with ancient yeast. Beer buff Cano was named official taster of the new brew, dubbed Jurassic Amber Ale (a slight misnomer since the yeast used to make it did not come from the Jurassic period, which ended 144 million years ago, but from more recent geological epochs.) Quipped Steele to Cano: "We're not going to drink this...
What explains Harry and Louise's inspiring 286,000 calls to a toll-free number since the series began in September? Sure, they lured both Clintons into blasting them, but it's the hokey soap-opera techniques perfected in the Taster's Choice coffee ads that have made Harry and Louise seem like a bad song you can't stop humming. The actors cast as Harry and Louise by Ben Goddard, president of the Goddard-Clausen/First Tuesday ad agency, are similar to the Taster's Choice twosome in age, self-absorption and pseudo sophistication, although they have dissimilar levels...
...nature. Which is more fantastic? That a cappuccino-swilling duo would be caught dead spooning coffee from a jar, or that a two-career couple would spend their nights reading aloud from government documents? That anyone, much less the sophisticated lady with the arch British accent, would cart Taster's Choice to Paris, the City of Cafes, or that Harry's response to his wife's persistent nattering would be a chipper "Health-care reform again, huh?" If the pair of them had been members of the Screen Actors Guild when F.D.R. was President, there might be no Social Security...
...small, round, firm cookie. Smell The cookie's scent is something of a turn-off. When in the Pain, go for eau de Sweet Cheese croissant instead. Nonexistent, really. Perfect. Not too high, not too low. Cinnamon stench. Scrumptious. Pleasant Chip-to-Dough Ratio Out of control. Said one taster. "A tremendous amount of chocolate." "Too doughy." This is mere Star Market material--"you can taste the preservatives." Poor. Minimal chip action Great. Lots of chocolate taste, yet not overpowering. Wonderful. "The chocolate taste comes right through." General Observations Exotic chocolate flavor. Not your basic milk-chocolate. Far from chocolate...
...hard to settle on a defining moment that sums up our ambivalence. Perhaps the best symbol of growing harmony in an increasingly surreal world is that the two lonelyhearts in the Taster's Choice commercial finally hooked up. It looks like we're in for a couple more decades of pseudo-happiness, so we'd better learn to enjoy...