DODGE THE WAVE."Catch the Stokabunga Power Wave," cajoles the Mrs. Field's Website. Better to let it foam and fizzle out Verb 1. fizzle out - end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" fizzle, peter out, taper off discontinue - come to or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31" . Mrs. Field's new Stokabunga cookie makes every other cookie on earth look good. Heck, it makes a Cinnabon, a DoveBar, or a Big Mac look good. This Cookie Monster (recreation) cookie monster - (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), has 750 calories and 48 grams of fat, 16 of them saturated. It's not a cookie; it's a meal. That's apparently what the company has in mind. The Missus mis·sus n. Variant of missis. missus or missis Noun 1. Brit, Austral & NZ informal proudly describes her new creation as "a gigantic five-ounce cookie packed with enough chunks of chocolate, pecans, almonds, and sunflower seeds to keep you going all day long." Apparently, the idea came from a couple of surfers who needed a quick boost of energy to carry them through the day. Memo to Mrs. Fields Mrs. Fields Cookies is a chain of bakeries, located mostly in the United States, founded by Debbi Fields (b. 1956, Park City, Utah). Mrs. Fields and her husband started their business in the late 1970s, opening the first of many retail bakeries in Palo Alto, California, selling : Most Americans spend their days sitting in front of desks, computers, TV sets, and dashboards. They need your Stokabunga like they need a vending machine vending machine, coin-operated, automatic device for selling goods. Many vending machines are capable of making change, and some of the more sophisticated ones accept paper money or credit cards. in their bedrooms. Not that your standard 250-calorie cookies are worthy of praise. But a third of a day's calories and three-quarters of a day's fat in a single cookie? The Stokabunga is Mrs. Field's personal contribution to the obesity and heart disease epidemics in the U.S. Why not pick up the phone and send her your personal thanks? Mrs. Fields: (800) 266-$437. Nutrition Action Healthletter CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST Suite 300, 1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20009-5728 |
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