Word: vanillas
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...When the alarm is activated by a break-in, a 12-volt impulse turns the mixture into an impenetrable fog, filling the cabin in seconds and preventing thieves from driving away. Even with all doors open, it takes 10 to 15 minutes for the fog to clear - leaving a vanilla scent. Considering how often car alarms go off for no reason, there might be too much vanilla in the air for anyone's good. The cylinders (three sizes, from €398), are available from ePyron (secufog.de). - By Ursula Sautter/Bonn
...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...
...honeymoon ends with your tongue seeking divorce, cool it off with one of Smile’s decadent desserts. My assistant—obviously a regular— demands we split the fried banana and ice cream dish ($3.25). Unmoved by the boring notion of banana and vanilla ice cream, I passively agree, and indifferently await the arrival of our generic dessert...
When it does, much to my surprise, my tongue greets the greatest pleasure it has ever known—not vanilla, but coconut and ginger ice cream topped with diced jack-fruit and ground peanuts. I search for the bananas and ultimately find them hidden within delicious fried pastries...
...Ackler uses only natural ingredients to make his creamy but relatively low-fat desserts. Chillers in his factory on Bridges Street are piled high with pure fruit purees, Madagascar vanilla beans, Valrhona cocoa, Italian pistachios, spices, even flowers. And these exotic ingredients from faraway places are thrown into suggestive creations such as "raspberry nipple," "chocolate ecstasy" and "volcanic pistachio." His most unusual flavor? The zingy lemon-pepper, which has a delightful kick. So popular is Ackler's ice cream that it's on the menu at many top Hong Kong eateries, and several independent markets sell it by the kilo...