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The Dumpster: It’s a Wrap
I bought a 16MB Flash card for my camera. The card itself is about the size of a Cheez-It. It was packaged in a little plastic box, which was wrapped in a four-inch plastic bubble, sealed in a plastic hanger
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The Dumpster: Un-American Food
We have been invaded. The Europeans snuck in and now all our signature foods are named after their home towns. Hamburger. Frankfurter. We call the latter a hot dog, but in our hearts we know the truth. A hot dog
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The Dumpster: Loyal to the Bone
I bought a bag of Newman’s Own Organic Second Generation Premium Dog Treats. There were about as many little snacks in the bag as there were adjectives in the title. The treats were for Phooey, a Shih Tzu, who had
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The Dumpster: For Good Measure
Recipes used to be simpler: 1. Hit pigeon with rock; 2. Pull off feathers; 3. Hold over fire until inside temperature reaches . . . ow! Our ancestors learned the feather trick after some trial and error. Then came the
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The Dumpster: Molding Opinions
Before the dawn of refrigerators, back when humans made ice cubes by banging chunks of glacier against their foreheads, food storage options for leftovers were simpler. You either 1) ate it, 2) it rotted, or 3) it rotted and you
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The Dumpster: Saying It with Meat
At Christmas we often show our love with a salami. I don’t know how Hillshire Farms survives the rest of the year, but during the Christmas season business booms as neatly packaged grassy nests of unrefrigerated salami and warm wet
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