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SNACK TIME: Mexi ice cream in South Philly, Laudrée for all, unidentified meat lip gloss, Cheesecake Factory giving you what you want, 9/11 wine and spaceship gardens.
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SNACK TIME: Mexi ice cream in South Philly, Laudrée for all, unidentified meat lip gloss, Cheesecake Factory giving you what you want, 9/11 wine and spaceship gardens.
- Mexico is probably second only to Japan as far as interesting ice cream flavors go. You can get the best in Kennett Square, but if you can't make that hike, Midtown Lunch discovered a place right in South Philly that has some: El Pueblo offers up elote, guaya con crema, and arroz con leche.
- Be still my heart: Laudrée has opened up a store in New York City. The legendary pastry shop now offers Madison Avenue shoppers a place to pick up some of the most celebrated pastries in the world. Macarons, tartes and gâteaux of astounding beauty stare out at you from irresistible window displays. If I’ve started to sound like an obsessed pompous snot, it's because I've just turned into one.
- Wouldn’t you just love to smear some on some UMP (unidentified meat product) to soothe your poor chapped lips? Hormel is now offering a Spam-flavored lip gloss, as well as other doodads such as air fresheners and beachballs.
- Stop judging The Cheesecake Factory — they’re just trying to feed the common man. Founder David Overton, who has shockingly not suffered a fatal heart attack yet, claims that he’s giving Americans what they want: enormous portions of over-salted, over-sugared food. He also claims to understand the taste of the common man and is not the least bit humble.
- The 10th anniversary of September 11 is this Sunday. (See Critical Mass for a roundup of local tributes and events.) If you weren’t sure what wine to drink to commemorate this, Lieb Cellars in Long Island has just the bottle for you. They're selling wine made with grapes grown 90 miles from the site of the World Trade Center. Not only that, they came up with the idea mere days after the tragedy. Talk about opportunistic.
- Forget Muppets in space — it’s gardens in space! NASA is developing a way to grow food on space shuttles in anticipation of five-year round trips to Mars. It will provide the astronauts healthy, fresh food as well as producing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide.
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