Super Saver: Reader questions purchase requirement switch
A reader explains securing a $24.95 deluxe Monopoly game by mailing 10 cereal box bottoms after using 10 UPCs and nine doubled coupons. The column notes manufacturers change proofs to gain new business and praises frugal gains, naming Becky of Cedar Rapids and Kathy Drew of Riverdale as readers featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big G Cereals
Big G
Becky
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Betty Crocker
Kathy Drew
Riverdale, Neb
Super Saver
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Libertyville
Ill
The Butcher Pork Shoulder Butt Guide and Tasso Idea
A feature on pork shoulder butt as an economical versatile cut. It covers uses from sausages to Char Siu and Cajun Tasso, notes Paul Prudhomme's Melville plant plans, and provides home prep recipes for Char Siu and Char Siu Bow with step by step oven and steaming methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Refund offers for consumer rebates and coupons
Multiple national refund and coupon offers listed with required forms addresses and deadlines. Airwick Centrum Fruit Roll-Ups Jenos Hanes Curity Neutrogena refunds are specified with respective expirations and store forms. Consumers advised forms may vary by city and to save the Refunders Reference Report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Airwick
P.O
Westbury
N.Y
Lederle Promotional Center
Bradley Hill Road
Blauvelt
Care Bears
Parker Bros
Parker Bros. Care Bears
Jeno
Nickel Coffee Still $0.05 at Josie’s Cafe in Heimdal N D
In Heimdal North Dakota Josie Georgeson 75 keeps coffee at five cents since 1954 at Josie’s Cafe on her porch. Local farmers and railroad crews stop for a roll or coffee cake while a single child attends Fessenden School ten miles away. The town’s population skews elderly and neighbors gather there daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heimdal
N.D
Josie’s Cafe
North Dakota
Josie Georgeson
Burlington Northern Railroad
Exotic dishes draw diners to Mexico City fonda
In a modest downtown eatery Fonda Don Chon, diners sample ants eggs, armadillo, iguana, venison in chicado sauces and other exotic foods. The menu changes daily with dishes like tepetzcuintle and maguey worms while the legacy of founder Encarnacion Reyes remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Mexico
Fonda Don Chon
Encarnacion Reyes
Emilia Rojas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jan Leasure
Universal Press Syndicate
Drew
By Merle Ellis
Chronicle Features
Paul Prudhomme
Melville
Char Siu
Cafe
By Charles Hillinger
Los Angeles Times
Josie
Kristy Duffey
Fessenden School
Barlow’s
Hillshire
USDA
Wilson
New York
Oscar Mayer
Usda Choice
Tyson
Nestea
van Camp
Kraft Dressings
del Monte
Pillsbury Family
Hellmann
Jemima
Nergy Te
Florida
Vienna
Washington
Barlow
Barlow Foods
Palmolive
Mustaro
Kemps
Minute Maid Reg
Idaho
Cole
Benatins
Pita
First Ave
Armar Dr
Lindale Mall
Edgewood Road
S.W Va
Westdale Mall
By Lou Sussman
Associated Press