Additional Excess of Verbage and Adjectives

Like vanilla? You probably only know vanilla flavoring.

But the vanilla that wearies us is rarely vanilla at all. Anywhere from 90 percent to 97 percent of vanilla-flavored products are made with vanillin, a substance found in small quantities in natural vanilla but made synthetically for processed commercial foods. Real vanilla...is as different from vanillin as sugar is from Equal; vanilla possesses subtlety and depth, while vanillin is loud, brassy, superficial. Food manufacturers thus have little incentive to choose real vanilla: Using pure vanilla extract costs...73 cents a gallon of ice cream, as opposed to 12 cents a gallon for...vanillin. In 2004, vanilla prices peaked at $500/kilo.

I'd pay more for real vanilla, and to also not have anything artificial at all in my ice cream! Its so unnecessary!

Boatsticks

The ice cream sticks used to make the ship were provided by Unilever’s ice cream maker OLA and by children who collected discarded sticks around the world.
McDonald is a 45-year-old from Jacksonville, Fla. whose Sea Heart Foundation helps provide leisure activities for children in hospitals, hopes to sail his Viking ship across the Atlantic next year. “That’s still the ultimate goal, to sail across the Atlantic in the Viking-style,” McDonald said.

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The ship carried a crew of 20 on its maiden voyage. "It's a dream come true. It's truly worth all the hard work," said Mr McDonald, quoted by Reuters news agency. "I never want to look at glue again. I don't think I will be in a hurry to look at ice cream sticks again."

Luxury toilet paper Incredibly stupid, but probably being bought.

Game Boy Micro(Photos)

Nintendo said Thursday it will launch Game Boy Micro, a new mobile-phone-size game console, in Japan on Sept. 13 with a price tag of 12,000 yen-- just under $110--about a week before the U.S. launch.