Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mass. Ave location, good, cheap coffee will be right on the way to class for every river student. Some may claim that Starbucks fits the “cheap, good coffee” bill, but let me tell you: five dollars for coffee, caramel, whipped cream and low-fat vanilla flavoring isn’t coffee. It’s dessert, you over-commercialized, health-club-dependent, BMW-driving yuppie...
...Americans' ice cream palates go gourmet, even traditional formulations are taking on a more sophisticated edge. Neuhaus, the Belgian chocolatier, has brought its superpremium ice cream to the U.S. for the first time, in the form of Snobinettes Glace, which are chocolate shells filled with ultrarich vanilla, coffee or chocolate ice cream. An ice cream and sorbet maker in Dallas called Out of a Flower uses herbs, teas and edible flowers to create its exotic flavors, which include Tequila & Cilantro, Rosemary & Black Peppercorn and Texas Goat Fromage Blanc & Roasted Hazelnuts...
Their signature drink is called an Ice Blended. It is not terribly different in conception than a Frappuccino, actually. An Ice Blended consists of sweetened coffee syrup, vanilla or chocolate powder and ice, mixed together in a blender with more horse power than most Japanese cars on the market. There are a number of variations—you can get maraschino cherries thrown in, put whipped cream on top or hold the coffee syrup altogether...
...mind, though, that is the essence of Los Angeles. If you give the consumers what they want—in my case it’s a regular sized Vanilla Iced Blended, light on the vanilla powder, with whipped cream after lunch, but not in the morning—then you will be very richly rewarded. That’s entertainment...
...their Texas bedroom is none of our business. The court's affirmative-action decision was just as pragmatic. Most Americans disapprove of specific, codified racial preferences, like the now famous 20 points granted minority applicants to the University of Michigan. But American life, happily, is no longer plain vanilla. Anything all-white--law-school classes, corporate suites or presidential Cabinets--is not merely aesthetically displeasing, as Clarence Thomas asserted in his dissenting opinion, it is also considered socially deficient, inappropriate, un-American. Our diversity is the wellspring of American creativity, one of our competitive advantages in a global economy...