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Bringing Home the Bacon: Arons on Reactions to Burger King’s New Bacon Sundae

Burger King is serving up a new item this summer—soft serve ice cream with chocolate sauce and caramel, garnished with bacon bits and a strip of bacon on top. Frequent New Yorker contributor Rachel Arons tasted the new delicacy, but she is more interested in what others are saying about it in the many reviews and commentaries that have appeared in national magazines and local papers. This essay appeared in New Yorker in June 2012.

Read it here: Arons, “Why Does Fancy Fast Food Make Us Mad?”

 

A Bit of Intimacy in the Peanut Butter Aisle: Sartwell Contemplates Walmart

The mention of Walmart evokes strong opinions both favorable and otherwise, but this may be the first time that anyone has compared Walmart to Henry David Thoreau’s idyllic Walden Pond. Crispin Sartwell is a philosophy professor at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. His essay “My Walden, My Walmart” appeared in the New York Times in May 2012.

Read it here: Sartwell, "My Walden, My Walmart"