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Article: Homemade bread crumbs beat store-bought
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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It's that time of year again, when we try to spread joy by
wrapping it in brightly colored paper topped with a bow.
The season's dirty little secret is that the gifts we give and
receive are just as likely to fill our hearts with disappointment
and guilt.
My eyes were opened to the misleading nature of advertising in
the early 1970s, when all I really wanted for Christmas was a hand-
held blowdryer. I think it was called the Maxi.
In the commercial, the model would transform her long, straight
hair into a glorious mane so thick and lustrous it cascaded like a
shimmering waterfall and bounced with body as she walked.
I tore open that Maxi on Christmas morning, and hit the shower
before ...