Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ponytailed shaman among NASCAR drivers, he goes into the refrigerator of his trailer for an energy bar and makes sure it has the right ratio of protein to carbohydrates. "In the trailer park where all the drivers live in their coaches, if you're out of skim milk or tuna, you know what door to knock on, because you know who's on what diet...
...there is a traditionalist left in racing, it has to be Earnhardt, whose nickname is the Intimidator. I tell him Martin's pre-race meal is tuna with brown mustard on wheat bread. If Earnhardt says he eats the same thing, I'm going to cover golf. "My pre-race meal is steak and potatoes," Earnhardt says. "And when Mark's f______ tuna runs out on him at 400 miles, my steak will just be kicking...
...finishes 38th. It's his fourth washout in a month, and he begins to wonder, for the first time in his career, if the magic is gone. Earnhardt, running on steak and potatoes, wins the race with Martin on his tail, a nickel short with that lousy can of tuna he had for lunch...
...flock to the striped umbrellas and concrete chess tables of Au Bon Pain, the invariable meeting place for a night out. I drank numerous oily cups of Peet's Coffee, pretending that I was a tortured poet in a proverbial coffee house. I even developed a taste for their tuna croissant-wiches. I have good memories of ABP; it wasn't until college that it started to make me cringe...
...flock to the striped umbrellas and concrete chess tables of Au Bon Pain, the invariable meeting place for a night out. I drank numerous oily cups of Peet's Coffee, pretending that I was a tortured poet in a proverbial coffee house. I even developed a taste for their tuna croissant-wiches. I have good memories of ABP; it wasn't until college that it started to make me cringe...