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Garnick■ From Page 23ter of the way across and keep it whole. he advises. “Try and keep all the pieces of a packet wrapper as it i possible to repair it if a whole (one) is unobtainable.Ann Szyhowski, an aerospace engineering student at the University of Missouri, does not regard herself as a collector, but cherishes sugar packets for their educational value. Her hobby legacy is the “Sugar Packet Page O' Wisdom on the Internet.Szvhowski has documented*KRAFT Foods onetime venture into providing fortune cookie slogans with their sugar. Click on the packet and a random witticism (“The man who rocks the boat generally doesn't have time to rock it.) will pop up on the screen.Phil Miller, a 43-vear-old restau-rant food distributor from Indiana, displays the best of his 5.0(X)-plus collection on his web site in hopes of attracting more people to the hobby. Among the more unusual items are packets featuring Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Pocahontas and Hugh Hefner's PlavbovClub.Miller, however, also keeps less stimulating packets from Burger King. Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken in protective plastic sheets. He savs he is not motivatedmby the possibility' that sugar packets may be worth a lot of money someday.“In America, I don’t see it becoming a major hobby,” he says, noting that France and Italy have more sugar art being produced annually.*“ ... It's just a nice, pleasant diversion to remember places you’ve been or to pass the time away.Not evervone will be mesmerized by the collections of Phil Miller or Norman Wordsworth. Few people would bother to open their sugar with a scalpel. But sugar packet collectors deserve our admiration for one reason alone: It doesn't take much to make them happv.□ □ □Check out the U.K. Sucrologists' Club at:http://web;ukonline.co.uk/email.uks csugar/. Phil Miller’s Sugar Packet Gallery is at:www.members.iquest.net/~phillip/.For a dose of sugar packet wisdom, go to:www.umr.edu/~amszyh/sugar/sugar.html.□ □□Darren Gamick's “Culture Schlock ” column appears Tuesdays in The Telegraph. Ideas and feedback are welcomed via e-mail atdarren (a awardproductions. com.
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Nashua Telegraph
Nashua, New Hampshire, US
Tue, Jul 28, 1998
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