.9! Do Your Parties Go Bust? Q, Kosher Bites Macaroons and potato chips make the kosher-for-Passover list for junkies. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER Make sure your party gets off the ground with the CELEBRATION (0) CONNECTION DIRECTORY in our Classified Section lJ Detroit's Original Discounter LEVIN'S BEAUTY SUPPLY New Arrivals for Spring: South Seas Polish Collection 12 NEW Essie Polish colors O.P.I C/D LU C/D UJ CC F- LU LU F- M8 Professional Hair & Nail Supplies, Including NAILTIQUES West Bloomfield 851 7323 - Orchard Lake Road In The West Bloomfield Plaza Levins New Spring Colors: 11 Lipsticks 12 Eye Shadows 2 Blushes 3 Lip Glosses 6 Waterproof Eyeliner Pencils Oak Path 547 9669 24695 Coolidge At - 10 Mile Road Open M-Sat. 9-6 • Closed Sun. • Tluu-s. Til 8 p.m. or the junk food junkie, Passover can be death. Since most junk food con- tains flour (think cookies and snack cakes) or corn syrup (most candy), it is generally off lim- its during those eight days. This leaves little for noshing. Thank the lord Passover is only eight days long, for during that time the junkies, myself included, desperately seek ways to pass the time and avoid thinking of Drake's cakes or Butterfingers bars. Some, teetering on the brink of insanity, apparently will turn to pondering new flavors of macaroons in an at- tempt to assuage their Jones for junk. That is clearly what happened at the world's manufacturers of macaroons this season, for there has been a veritable explosion of new macaroon flavors, enough to make any mouth almost water. Aside from the traditional al- mond and chocolate, food engi- neers and other junkies have dreamt up new flavors to take the kosher-for-Passover consumer where he has never gone before. Other companies, looking to ex- pand their markets during this season and perhaps convert healthy eaters to more wicked ways, have added supervision to their products. Cape Cod Potato Chips, made in Hyannis, Mass., has had su- pervision for its products for all but one of the 16 years in business. Kosher-for-Passover supervision has been off and on, said compa- ny spokesperson Nicole Bernard. Manischewitz Banana Split Macaroons "My favorite. Of course, there is not much food I don't like these days." — Shari Cimino, pregnant not love the idea of macaroons it- self "Very good. I can eat the whole can." — Brigette Thompson Cape Cod Potato Chips Rokeach Maple Walnut Fla- vored Macaroons "Lovely, lively. I'm in love. Thanks Jill, this is much better than the gefilte fish." • • , "I didn't really like these but they do have a strong walnut fla- vor." — Heather Bondy "Great crunch. I love them and the baby loves them." — Karin Inclig "Loved 'em! Lots of coconut flavor!" — Patty McMurray, five months pregnant — Shari Cimino Manischewitz Chocolate Chunk Macaroons with Cherry Bits Rokeach Chocolate Rasp- berry Macaroons ) "Nice cherry flavor, not too sweet. Chewy delight!" — Susie Sherman "Normally, I love chocolate raspberry but this has a disturb- ing toxic chemical taste." — Julie Wiener "Very, very cherry." 'Weird but good." — Carla Schwartz Manischewitz Cookies 'N Cream Macaroons — Julie Edgar Rokeach Brownie Nut Mac- aroons The Rating: My colleagues know their junk. So when Cape Cod Potato Chips asked if we would be inter- ested in trying their products, how "Don't pay attention to any could I say no? Send a case, I told negative comments. These are them, Iii share them with my co- yummy, the best of the lot. And workers. It would be a fix they a mere five fat grams in two! would remember for a long time, Why, with 25 post-pregnancy something that would resurface pounds still to lose, I figure I'll when I needed a favor. be able to eat one-fourth of one On the day the case of chips ar- of these each day!" rived, I returned to the lunch room — Elizabeth Applebaum a full 10 minutes after leaving the "Not much flavor. Tasted kind first bag out and could not find it. of burnt. Yuck." I set out another. Ten minutes lat- — Nancy Cameron er, I found the bag but no chips. I set out another. A half hour later, Manischewitz Coffee that bag was emptied as well. Macaroons We hid the fourth bag to savor in the editorial department. And no, Arthur, we aren't telling you where it is. The reaction to the macaroons "Such an awful flavor I was different. Of the seven kinds couldn't even swallow." we tried, none of the containers — Marla Cooper emptied. Some of my co-workers "Where's the coffee?" enjoyed the new flavors but did -----0161100i- — Lynne Cohn , `Tastes like any chocolate mac- aroon. I wish there were more brownie chunks." —Lynne Konstantin "Yuck! For me to spit out choco- late is a pretty dam serious state- ment." — Jill Davidson Sklar ❑ Lk\ e of our ;1 .11 th ‘ e an suggestions, call klar at (810) 354- e ,