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“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

tags: barbie, bellwether, fads, humour, independence

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message 1: by Tamahome (new)

Aug 22, 2014 12:03PM

Chocolate cheesecake will never go out of style.

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message 2: by Julie (new)

Aug 22, 2014 12:03PM

If it does, we know the Apocalypse can't be far away.

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message 3: by Rosamund (new)

Aug 22, 2014 09:22PM

BLASPHEMY. Bread pudding is the food of the gods. (But otherwise, I love that book.)

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message 4: by Julie (new)

Aug 23, 2014 09:16AM

I do love bread pudding also. But fads I'm not so crazy about. :-)

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message 5: by Tamahome (new)

Aug 23, 2014 09:20AM

I thought ambrosia was the food of the gods?

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message 6: by Julie (new)

Aug 23, 2014 12:09PM

Touché!

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