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Torpedo Joe's earns its stripes // Plain but fresh menu hits shop 'n' noshers
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TORPEDO JOE'S
35 N. State St.
(312) 551-1515
Hours: 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday Prices: torpedoes, $3.50; soup, $1.75; chili, $2.50; salads,
$2-$3.50
Credit cards: American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa
The food at Torpedo Joe's is just like the clothes at the
downtown Old Navy store, where the restaurant resides: reasonably
priced and inoffensive, but unchallenging.
Which makes it perfect for Loop shoppers on the go.
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Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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Off the beaten path with peanut butter sandwiches.(THE HOME FORUM)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: John Dreyer A peanut butter and tomato sandwich? Yuck! I've gotten that reaction ever since grade school when I brown-bagged it with my mother's lunch creation. No one in the cafeteria ever wanted to trade. My mother was the only other person I knew who ate it. Fifty years later, I still
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Let's hear it from The Peanut Gallery/Peanut butter spreads culinary creativity
The Gazette
; If ever there was a perfect food combination when we were kids, it was this: peanut butter, grape jelly and white bread - that kind of soft, pillowy substance that my little brother always rolled into a disgusting ball before he popped it in his mouth. The bread was important, but the peanut butter
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Peanut butter.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; Byline: By GARETH MORGAN Western Mail To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!' - Greg Louganis, Olympic diver. And not just the breakfast of champions, its seems. In America it is the breakfast, lunch and dinner of everyone from tiny kids to toothless pensioners. Peanut butter is one of
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Splurge with caution ELVIS PRESLEY'S FAVORITE FRIED PEANUT BUTTER AND BANANA SANDWICHES
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
; The story of peanut butter ROBERTA STRICKLER Arachibutyrophobia or allergies may be the only good reasons for people to avoid eating reasonable amounts of the versatile, nutritious and popular spread called peanut butter. That big word, arachibutyrophobia, describes the fear of getting peanut
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THE POWER OF PEANUT BUTTER
The Boston Globe
; Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, Fluffernutters, peanut butter cups, and good old PB&Js are legendary creations. But other pairings abound; ask around, and you might hear people swear by peanut butter and tomato, or bologna, or onion, or even sardines. "Peanut butter is a very personal
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Peanut butter a taste some Americans never outgrow
Oakland Tribune
; WHEN Lee Zalben was a child, his mother grew tired of finding the family peanut butter jar ravaged by the fingers of her two sons. So she made sure there were always three jars on the shelf, marked "Lee," "Scott" and "Mom" -- Deborah Zalben herself being no stranger to midnight peanut-butter
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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MEALS UNDER $10; Cutesy theme aside, Torpedo Joe's is megamall's best dining value.(TASTE)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; 1/3 Hundreds of snack-chip bags whirl overhead on a conveyer belt. The setting - a study in corrugated metal - resembles a very stylish Quonset hut. The menu is lousy with cute nautical names: drinks called Deep Blue Sea and sandwiches labeled Down the Hatch. One guess where we are. Please, said my
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Adults stick to peanut butter, and vice versa
Chicago Sun-Times
; It's time to stop thinking of peanut butter as "kid stuff." One of the fastest-growing segments of peanut-butter consumption is adults who eat peanut butter for breakfast as a quick, easy, protein substitute for bacon and eggs, says J. Tyron Spearman, executive director of the Georgia Peanut
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N.Y. RESTAURATEUR MAKES A STATEMENT WITH PEANUT BUTTER
The Columbian
; BETH GARDINER, Associated Press The Columbian 03-09-1999 NEW YORK -- Taking the old school lunch to culinary heights, Lee Zalben is confident his restaurant's peanut butter obsession has enough adult appeal to fly. Kids aren't the only ones who love the sticky stuff, but most people, young and old,
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Americans absolutely nuts about peanut butter, Creamy concoction exerts strong hold on young, old
Charleston Daily Mail
; NEWSDAY When Lee Zalben was a child, his mother grew tired of finding the family peanut butter jar ravaged by the fingers of her two sons. So she made sure there were always three jars on the shelf, marked "Lee," "Scott" and "Mom" - Deborah Zalben herself being no stranger to midnight peanut-butter
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