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In more than two decades at the Statesman, Mike's been a copy editor, Sunday editor, Page 1 designer and, for the past 14 years, XL art director. But after more than 700 XL covers, nine XL Dining Guides, managing the hundreds of listings in our restaurant database and writing stories about doughnuts, Vietnam and the Incredible Hulk, he'll finally be able to put his nine years of fancy restaurant job experience (thank you, drive through) to good use. This means he can write about trailer tacos on South Lamar, $250 anniversary dinners at Hudson's, smoking a cigar with Michael Moriarty at Louie's 106, brewing his own Anderson's Coffee stout beer and freeloading at kids-eat-free nights all over town.
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| Saturday, December 13, 2008, 07:55 AM
(Rosanne and Jim King own Completely Nuts at Lakeline Mall, where they sell original cane-sugar Dublin Dr Pepper. Photos by Mike Sutter.)
Rosanne and Jim King are decent, respectable people who call Marble Falls home for most of the year. But during the holidays, they become renegades, bootlegging the pure cane-sugar version of
Dr Pepper bottled in
Dublin, Texas, to Lakeline Mall. The Kings drive to
Stephenville (155 miles north of Austin on U.S. 281) to stock
Completely Nuts, their seasonal Lakeline Mall kiosk, with the Dr Pepper they sell alongside crunchy cinnamon-sugar almonds, cashews and pecans.
The Kings say some shoppers zip right past the nuts (the pecans taste like a handful of pecan pie) to buy six-packs of Dublin Dr Pepper as Christmas presents. At $1.50 per 8-ounce glass bottle, that works out to $9 a six-pack. But that seems reasonable for a forbidden taste of Dr Pepper the way your parents (or you) drank it as kids.
For more mall-food options, see my sampling of choices at Lakeline, Highland and Barton Creek Square malls here.
Completely Nuts sells cashews, almonds and pecans at $4 for a snack size and for $14 a pound. Lakeline Mall. 258-0463, www.completelynutz.com.
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By Sally
December 14, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this
These are absolutely delicious nuts! I watched while they were making some of their tasty pecans one day. The aroma alone was delightful. There is an art to making these taste so delicious and they have perfected it. They even have those gift tins filled with an assortment of nuts.