There was a drum corps rattling away at the stadium entrance, and inside, free T-shirts and black-and-white cookies with HELLO PLAYOFFS scribbled in frosting.

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What aging white wouldn't prefer to be greeted by a nice plate of macaroni and cheese for dinner, and cookies for dessert, rather than a suspicious looking array of injera and wat, served in a colorful basket and requiring no silverware, with raw slices of un-American fruits like "mango" on the side?

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