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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

The Slice Trendy Must Be Sooo Tasty

A pleasant, efficient waiter at a Spokane restaurant said something odd a week or so ago.

In the process of taking our order, he described a dish - garlic mashed potatoes, it might have been - as “trendy.” As if that would make us want them.

And it reminded us of how much we like living in a place where assuming that we will care about what’s hot/what’s not isn’t the norm.

Halloween candy update: Rena Mincks asked her first and second graders at Pullman’s Jefferson Elementary to say what treats they wanted for Halloween. And apples made the list, along with peanut butter cups, suckers, pie, popsicles and candy canes, among other things.

All fall down: Several of our favorite “Great Things About Fall” lists submitted by readers had something in common. We could barely read the handwriting. But here are a couple of snippets: “Realizing that as the leaves fall off our aspen trees, once again providing us with our fall-winter view, all that noise over the spring and summer has created five new roof tops to look at instead of pheasants getting ready for cold weather. Boo!”

“I love totally gray dismal fall days which end with sunbeams sneaking under the clouds to bathe everything in a golden-red hue and, at the same time, creating a double rainbow that spans the width of the Valley.”

Not even close: A senior criminal justice major at WSU was in a class taking notes on a lecture about specific acts of juvenile delinquency. And when she glanced at a friend’s notes, she saw that her friend thought the instructor had said “foreign occasion” instead of “fornication.”

Which phrase is least likely to be used by out-of-town writers in describing Spokane: 1. Hard-drinking. 2. Nightlife-loving. 3. Firewood obsessed. 4. Tolerant.

Good places to hear “foliage” mispronounced: Manito Park, The Creek at Qualchan, Green Bluff.

Slice answer: John J. Cardoza thinks “Coulee City Cooler” would be a good name for a wine.

Today’s Slice question: What percentage of Spokane area mothers are afflicted with a bad case of Supermommy Syndrome (the uncontrollable urge to praise one’s own parenting skills)?

, DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: Drawing of a witch with a candy cane

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