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...first two were terrific: rosemary encrusted chunks of pork were complemented perfectly by the succulent mush-rooms and beans, and the tiny scallops and shrimps in squid ink were fresh and perfectly cooked. The pastry on top was fluffy and tasted vaguely sweet, like vanilla. In both cases, the sauce adhered so perfectly to the meal that the plates looked clean enough to be reused. The baby octopus was tender, but needed more fresh tomato and onion chunks to liven it up, as well as a bit more red wine vinegar for tang. The canelon, as the fourth tapa...
...Actually last year I figured out how to make something that tastes just like Mexican fried ice cream. It's very simple: you take vanilla fro-yo and cover it with Just Right cereal. And this year I've gotten far bolder. After the salad bar thing worked out, I spent some time experimenting with sushi...
...vanilla-colored table tents perched atop the dining hall tables do not dispense information on the fat content or sodium intake of your food. Rather, they feature black scientists such as Jan Ernst Matzeliger, George Washington Carver and Mae Jemison--the second installment of black scientists to be featured this month on the table tents created by the Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers (HSBSE) in celebration of February's Black History Month...
Against the nurses' orders I bring her vanilla ice cream from time to time in a small cardboard cup, and I feed her with a flat wooden spoon. She takes her regular food through a tube in her stomach, so the taste of the sweet, cold substance makes her salivate and smile. She will exclaim, "This is delicious!" after every taste, with exactly the same intonation, as if she feared that if she used any other formula to express her appreciation, I would not reward her with another spoonful...
...when such heights are not reached, the movie degenerates into the plain vanilla horror's episodic nature of red herrings and and-then-there-were-none character elimination. The self-aware cleverness of the movie's premise survives only in spirit, as the events pale in comparison: we feel gypped, but then the movie just set impossible standards for itself...