]\OriHft^S I A Laurinburg Institution With The Best Food Around
By Ddbbie J(4mson
Special 1» THE LANCE
There are times when
cafeteria food gets
monotonous, when all the
hamburgers in town begin to
taste suspiciously alike, when
Italian pastas have done quite
enough to your protruding
beltline. There are times when
you are haunted by memories
of the kind of honest, old-
fashioned cooking you used to
get at Granny’s at
Thanksgiving or Aunt Mabel’s
on Sunday afternoons. An old
building near Bdk’s on Main
Street may have the cure for
your “Bored Belly Blues.”
Norma’s is a Laurinburg
tradition so well-known that it
doeai’t even have a sign out
front. Plain and simple, warm
and honey, Norma’s is a place
full of the kind of family-like
chattering andproudly presen
ted dishes you’d expect to find
at the family reunion.
Vegetables that taste field-
Milk Germs?
A while back there was an
ad on the cafeteria bulletin
board for a new kind of milk.
It’s called “Sweet
acidophilus” and, while the
name sounds exotic, all it
really describes is milk with
an acced natural ingredient:
lactobacillus acidophilus.
However, that agent is said
by numerous doctors to aid
victims of diarrhea, flatulen
ce and numerous other in
testinal ailments. Dairmen
are using terms such as
“revolutionary” and “the
greatest thing since vitamin
D” to describe it.
The man responsible or
“sweet acidophilus” is Dr.
M.L. Speck of the food scien
ces division at Ncrth Carolina
State University. Dr. Speck
spent five years trying to
sweeten the taste of the nor
mally sour-tasting bacteria,
which aids in maintaining the
balance of micro-organisms
in the digestive tract.
(Acidophilus milk was first
doscovered 75 years ago by a
Russian scientist, Ellie Met-
chnikoff, who maintained that
the longevity of certain
Balkan people was a result of
drinking the milk.)
Only a year after its
development, sweet
acidophilus is beng produced
by 24 dairies in a dozen states,
and the cultures are in such
demand that Mils
Laboratories has begun mass-
producing them. Hie major
marketing problem has been
the product’s name, and some
dairies simply decided not to
use it at all. However, Pine
State met the problem head-
on, advertising the low-fat
product witfcr such slogans as
“The milk that sounds like the
problem it’s supposed to take
care rf” and “The best germs
you ever tasted.” After six
months, sweet acidophilus
represents 10 percent of the
company’s sales.
Meanwhile Dr. Speck, who
has turned his development
over to the North Carolina
Dairy Foundatirai, disavows
any extravagent medical
claims for sweet acidophilus,
but does admit that he carries
a supply (rf it when he travels
in foreign countries.
fre^, juicy meats, cold tea,
yummy desserts are all ser
ved in a setting as pleasant as
Granny’s kitchen.
The inimitable Norma serves
you herself, watching
over your weight by serving
low-calorie sugar and over
your health by encouraging
you to eat every last Wte of the
country-fresh food. When the
meal is over, guests carry
their own plates back to the
kitchen just as they would at
home. The over-all effect is
good food served in a relaxed
and familiar atmosphere.
Nonna’s has been in Laurin
burg for quite some time and
has been written up in such
publications as the Charlotte
Observer and the Washington
Post. It is run by a group of
elderly ladies and, of course,
Norma, llieir accumulated
experience with food and the
emphasis on “back home”
cooking make for some of the
best food you’ll ever eat. And
going to Norma’s is as
satisfying as
again.
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Bigger Picture
Turns Out Smaller
A count by staff members of
THE LANCE indicates that
The Bigger Pictures turned
out to be a smaller one.
The picture, a photograph of
the college community assem-
held on DeTamble Terrace,
was taken on September 29 as
part of THE LANCE’S fif
teenth anniversary
celebration. It was a sequel to
“The Big Picture,” taken in
November 1975 for the yet-to-
be published “Whole St. An
drews Catalog.”
Attendance for this year’s
picture was around 350, said
editor Lin Thompsrai, com
pared to 475 last year. He at
tributed the lower attendance
to the threatening weather
that day and the loss of the
novelty the concept enjoyed
when proposed for the first
time last year.
“We were still pleased with
the turnout,” Thompson said,
“and plan to make it an an
nual event. We’re hoping a lot
of St. Andrews people will take
advantage of toe q>portunity
we are offering for them to get
an 8 by 10 inch color print for
just$3.00.”
Orders, he noted, should be
sent - with payment included -
to Box 757, Campus Mail.
Series To Open
With Orchestra
The Piedmont Chamber Or
chestra, under direction of
Nicholas Harsanyi, will be the
first program of the 1976-77 ar
tist series sponsored by the
Special Events Committee of
St. Andrews Presbyterian
College at 8 p. m. Oct. 29 in
Avinger Auditorium.
Tickets for the single per
formance cire $3 for adults and
$1.50 for those under 16 years
of age. They are available at
the door or may be par.r-ha-ced
by contacting Dr. Arthur Mt"-
Donald, chairman of the
Special Events Cranmittee.
According to McDonald, the
1976 October tour of the Pied
mont Chamber Orchestra will
feature Haydn’s Nocturno No.
8, Mozart’s Concerto for
Clarinet in A Major featuring
clarinetist Robert Listokin,
Vincent Persichetti’s Sym
phony for Strings and
Brahm’s Variations and
Fugue on a Theme by Handel,
arranged by M. Popldn.
The orchestra was formed
in 1968 with a Rockefeller
Foundatiai grant to the North
Carolina School of the Arts
and is supported by the
National Endowment for the
Arts, the Southern Federation
of State Art Agencies, and the
North Carolina School of the
Arts’ Foundation.
The 25-member orchestra
has a basic strength of 19
strings, augmented by solo
winds, brass and percussion
when needed. Based at the
North Carolina School of the
Arts, the core of the orchestra
is drawn from the faculty of
the School of Music.
Harsanja, the Hungarian-
born conductor and dean of
the School of Music of the
North Carolina School of the
Arts, was founder, music di
rector and conductor of the
celebrated Princetai Cham
ber Orchestra and recently
served as music director of
the Interlochen Arts Academy
Orchestra.
Listokin, the featured
clarinetist in the Moeart con
certo of the [x-ogram, is a
graduate of the Juilliard
School of Music where he
studied with Daniel Bcnade.
Is It Sick To Love A Pen?
No way can we believe that students from Maine to
California are storming the stores in search of the rare elusive
Pilot pen, which, according to the manufacturer has started a
cult on campuses around the country.
To support its cult theory, Pilot has spread some t-shirts
around with the thought-provoking slogan (based on its
national ad campaign), “Is it Sick to Love a Pen?”
This picture was taken a Yale with real live students.
The company says it will send a free shirt, and a box of pens
to the writers of the best 100 letters on “Why I Love My Pen".
Okay, you weirdos out there, here’s your chance to develop
that meaningful relationship at last.
Pilot Pen Corporation is located at 41-15 36th Street, Long
Island City, N. Y. 11101. Write to Rrai Shaw. He loves to get
mail, almost as much as he loves his pen.
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