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Archive for August, 2007

Donut Dip, West Springfield, Massachusetts

Posted: Thursday, August 9th, 2007 @ 8:32 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I must have passed it hundreds of times, but it wasn’t until a Chowhound pointed out its merits that I dared to try it.  I mean, so many donut shops are disappointing.
Not this one.  Opening the door, I felt as if I had stepped back into the 1950s.  There were […]

Food Porn

Posted: Monday, August 6th, 2007 @ 9:01 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Isn’t that a delicious term?
Alas, I did not make it up.  It aptly, if sometimes sardonically, describes a type of appetizing advertising or presentation of food items–one in which food is presented as the sensual and (ahem) “arousing” stuff it is.
It can be its own satisfaction–a kind of substitute for actually […]

Sugarless-Gum Mumblings

Posted: Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 @ 4:31 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’ve long been perplexed about the following statement on countless sugarless-gum wrappers:  “Not a Low Calorie Food.”
Okaaaay….   I suppose the “not low calorie” part is true if you CHEW TWO WHOLE PACKETS IN ONE SITTING!  But, come on, one piece is only five calories!   Do we […]