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...package butterscotch chips...

Author: By Dora Y. Mao, | Title: Recipes for a Dorm Room | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...obvious first choice of chocolate-cinnamon-raisin unavailable-at a cost of $1.60 for a large scoop with one mix-in, or $2 for a large scoop with three mix-ins. A mix-in, for those who have not yet followed aerobic eating into its postmodern era, may be butterscotch chips and walnuts, pulverized Reese's peanut butter cups, crushed Oreos, M & Ms or-in some temples of asceticism-granola. Mix-ins are not simply dumped on top of a scoop of ice cream as toppings would be in a conventional sundae; they are kneaded expertly into the very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...cream. She and her colleagues fight brain-fade by sizing up customers ("definitely a Swiss orange-chip person") the way soda jerks used to do. "The other day a guy came in and ordered a frappe with vanilla and mocha-chip ice cream, vanilla syrup, marshmallow sauce, hot butterscotch and an egg. That was weird." Her word frappe here is a Frenchified New England term for what Midwesterners call a milkshake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

They probably hate the beach because of the sand, sleep in pajamas, never eat spareribs and kiss with their mouths closed. What deprivation. Give me rum raisin, give me butterscotch excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: An Eternal Verity | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

They come in two flavors, Pralines 'N Cream, with a kind of butterscotch overcoat, and Jamoca Almond Fudge, sheathed in chocolate. Sometimes, I buy a six-pack of Jamoca Almond Fudge bars, eat two of them on my way home from work, and finish the rest before the 11 o'clock news. I know it's disgusting, but I don't care any more. And besides, it's a lot cheaper than whisky or cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: An Eternal Verity | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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