The expression cooked "al dente" means "to the tooth." What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, (the same stuff in pepcid AC) thus the name.

Chicago has the largest cookie factory, where Nabisco made over 4.6 billion "Oreo" cookies in 1997.

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