The egg creams (soda water mixed with chocolate or vanilla syrup and milk) and cherry-lime rickeys (lime juice and maraschino cherries mixed with lemon-lime soda) are not to be missed here.

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Incredible as it may seem, there was the Sage of Omaha sitting alone scarfing down his low-calorie meal of waffles dripping in syrup, slabs of bacon and on top--like the cherry on a sundae--a serving of eggs benedict, all being washed down with a huge glass of cherry Coke, the first of five such libations he drinks every day.

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