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- ↑ James Lileks The Gallery of Regrettable Food (2001, ISBN 0-609-60782-0)
- ↑ "Favorite Recipes of the Aetna Girls, August 1975" [Issued by the Toledo, Ohio office, Bayer & Associates.]
- ↑ "Toward Evening" by John Updike, New Yorker magazine, Feb. 11, 1956; "The Rivermen" by Joseph Mitchell, April 4, 1959; "Spry for Frying" by Lore Segal, April 18, 2011,
- ↑ June 28, 1958
- ↑ "Spry Φυτικό Βούτυρο 350Gr". supermarketcy.com.cy (in Greek). Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ↑ "UK television adverts 1955–1990" at headington.org.uk
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