January 2010
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“[Pennsylvanian] lawmakers and the Liquor Control Board (LCB) plan to take a...”
– Just when you thought Pennsylvania’s alcohol policies couldn’t get any more bizarre…
(if you aren’t familiar with the state: it maintains a monopoly on the sale of wine and liquor, prohibits the importation of any alcohol from other states unless it’s done through the...
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“As a legacy of the fork’s late arrival in the colonies, Americans were peculiar in using their ‘great lumbering, long, two-pronged forks,’ not to convey food to the mouth as their English and French contemporaries did, but merely to keep their meat from slipping off the plate while cutting it. ‘Feeding yourself with your right hand, armed with a steel blade,’...