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By Chris Mittelstaedt on September 14, 2009
Scott, the Firebird-drivingm, WYSP-FM-listening, tan and mustachioed manager of the Friendly's ice cream restaurant in the King of Prussia mall, is scowling at me. I'm only a few months into my first …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 31, 2009
I took a late vacation in 2009 - one week at the end of August up at the Russian River in Northern California. We rent a small house that's down a bumpy one-lane road, up and over hills, and through …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 18, 2009
I felt pretty good going into Sebastopol’s Gravenstein Apple Fair as a rookie pie judge last weekend - just little bites I kept telling myself. As we sat under the tent around a card table, our chairs …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 14, 2009
"Mama, I woke up at 3:19 this morning!" my 8-year-old daughter announces to my wife. My wife, who has the superhuman ability to raise just the end of one eyebrow as if tugged on an invisible string, …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 7, 2009
Popi's brown Chrysler smelled of warm leather, 70s dashboard plastic, starched shirts, white mint Tic-Tacs, and something atomized that I couldn't quite make out that felt powdery and sticky in the …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 3, 2009
It comes up all the time. In cafes, at dinner parties, just chatting with folks on the bus in the morning: "When you play "superhero," what's your special power?" Sometimes I say underwater breathing, …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on July 20, 2009
By Chris Mittelstaedt At this time of year, new varieties of peaches come in and out of harvest each week, evolving from early June tartness to the cinnamony-sweet notes of late August. As I track …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on July 6, 2009
It was 2 pm when Jane called and asked for my assistance. "The IT department did it again," she sighed. "Where is he?" I asked. "In the server room." I walked past the IT team and heard the high …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on June 8, 2009
An ode to the cherry, and a brief recollection of the time The FruitGuys' founder went to Vegas dressed as a banana.
By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 26, 2009
[SCENE: Orchard. Dappled sunlight falls softly. Ripe fruit hangs on trees.] DAD: Nectar? NECTAR: Yes, dad. DAD: Well, son, we have something to tell you. Mom and I have been thinking that …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 11, 2009
Some things just seem impossible to have together: a blizzard in Miami in July; midnight and noon at the same time; flippers and feet. But once in a while a strange convergence of natural coincidences …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on April 20, 2009
Sometimes things just don't work out. Take the time I wanted to build a hovercraft from a lawnmower. Or the time that a 6th grader convinced me that if I sang Pink Floyd's “Another Brick in the Wall” …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on April 13, 2009
If I were a betting man, I'd wager most of you know about the board game "Hi, Ho! Cherry-O." It's a simple game, originally released in 1965, where a spinner tells players how many cherries they gain …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on March 30, 2009
FruitFriends, most of you now understand the way popular culture and random-access memory connects us to fruit. This week's newsletter started out no differently when I heard there would be delicious …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on March 2, 2009
This March in History: March 1938. Abbott and Costello debuted their famous "Who's On First" baseball routine for a national radio audience 71 years ago this month, and their classic comedic gem …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on February 16, 2009
Whether corner, cubicle, home, or Oval, The FruitGuys believes all offices are created equal in their right to have fresh fruit and nutritious fare available in the workplace. In honor of Presidents' …
By Jeff Koelemay on December 8, 2008
The sound is deafening. In the post-Thanksgiving haze of sleeping babies and whispering adults tip-toeing on sock feet, the plastic-on-plastic rumbling of the Boggle game sounds like a string of …
By Jeff Koelemay on December 1, 2008
1938 - Bartholomew Cubbins takes off first of 500 hats 1957 - IBM 704 plots Sputnik's exact orbit over a period of six days 1981 - Kwicky Koala premiers following The SuperFriends Hour, 8 am …
By Chris Mittelstaedt on November 11, 2008
Jeff, a longtime FruitGuys guy, provides an edifying description of the Fuyu persimmon: how to identify it and how to eat it.
By Chris Mittelstaedt on November 3, 2008
By Chris Mittelstaedt Early November 1975. Richie, Chachi, and Ralph Malph are drinking milkshakes at Arnold's Drive-In Restaurant, swapping wholesome fantasy stories about catsuit-clad rock star …
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