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...potato-chip varieties are like the changes made in bread," says Richard Duchesneau, president of Tri-Sum Potato Chip, which has operated in Leominster, Mass., since 1908. "People got tired of standard white, and now when you walk down the supermarket aisle, you'll find wheat, oat berry, cracked wheat and more. It's the same with chips." Though they profess an interest in foods that are low in salt and calories, Americans last year spent an estimated $3.3 billion dollars (an increase of 75% since 1980) on deep- fried chips, generally strewn with salt. The market is dominated...
...stroll down a supermarket aisle would surely beguile George Crum, the chef at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., who in 1853 is said to have devised "Saratoga chips" to placate a cantankerous customer who complained that the fried potatoes were too thick. But if Crum were to taste chocolate-coated chips, a salt-sweet, cloying aberration priced from $6 to $18 per lb. (the latter from Yuppie Gourmet in Racine, Wis.), he might be sorry he started the whole thing. As a good chef, he would be the first to recognize that even the best idea...
...federal jury has convicted a former Princeton graduate student of "product tampering and communicating false information" for planting a cyanide-laced teabag in a local supermarket last February, The Daily Princtonian reported last month...
Several hours after placing the teabag, Dragoljob Cetkovic called the supermarket claiming that some cheese had been poisoned, citing the teabag as proof. The store tested 157 cheese samples, but found cyanide only in the teabag. The call was later traced to Cetkovic's apartment...
...ANYONE WHO follows the news, Reagan and Gorbachev is of little use. At best, the book is a clear distillation of recent events in Soviet-American relations. At worst, it is a supermarket paperback masquerading as thoughtful analysis. Either way, the authors' "insights" would rarely startle a freshman Gov Jock...