Pancakes here come with butter and syrup cooked into the batter.

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As thousands of bused-in police academy cadets gathered along the route to prepare for the procession, Olivero and his wife, Yelitza Acuna, hid from the sun while waiting in a block-long line to buy flour, coffee, butter and other food staples they said have been hard to come by for about two years.

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Latinos come north looking not just for bread-and-butter jobs but for a ladder into the middle class, and to a remarkable extent they are proving successful, as figures for both business start-ups and home ownership demonstrate.

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The occasional IPO or corporate stock benefit might come their way, sure, but mostly they own bread-and-butter stocks and bonds like everyone else.

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' He is amused by my desire to help, tolerant as all Solcavsko folk seem to be of the outsiders who come and homestay at local farms, with their strange enthusiasm and astonishment at such simple matters as churning butter or making salami.

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