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Change one letter in this word meaning to lightly touch someone in a way that yields laughter and it becomes this word, a small cucumber that's been soaked in brine
tickle, pickle
A delicious burger with a coveted secret recipe is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army
Krabby Patty Hearst
This home of the "Blizzard" first opened its doors in June of 1940
Dairy Queen
Mr. Garrison
South Park
All the pacman ghosts have rhyming names except for this peculiarly named one. Perhaps being a pacman ghost is what the afterlife looks like after you've spent all that time with Bonnie?
Clyde
Change one letter in this word meaning to consent and you get this word, which describes the way a person pronounces things when they speak
accept, accent
A San Fernando Valley mall is renamed to honor a Jewish American comedy singer
Allen Sherman Oaks Galleria
This ice cream chain which began as Snowbird Ice Cream in 1945 offered 21 flavors, a novel concept at that time
Baskin Robbins
Walter White
Breaking Bad
This was the original name of Pacman, but it was changed in the United States so that pranksters wouldn't vandalize the machines so that the four-letter first word said something more vulgar
Puck Man
Change one letter in this word meaning to gently persuade and you get this, which can be mined and used as energy
coax, coal
An American president is memorialized through the extended metaphor of a bowl of oat and corn cereal
O Captain! My Captain Crunch
Joe Nicchi of CVT Soft Serve, a roving Los Angeles-based soft serve ice cream truck, made headlines in 2019 when he refused to serve anyone with this trendy occupation
Influencers
Mr. Ratburn
Arthur
This Japanese multinational video game developer is responsible for developing Pac-Man
NAMCO
Change one letter in this action sometimes done to cheese and you get this word, which means angry
grate, irate
A transphobic author claims she was simply making a joke, and now she has fallen over and is rotating on the ground cackling
Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the scientific term for this painful phenomenon, often experienced when eating ice cream
Brain Freeze
Chuck Noblet
Strangers with Candy
In 2016 Pacman surpassed this extraterrestrial game to become the best-selling arcade game of all time
Space Invaders
change one letter in this twelve-letter word meaning not capable of being changed and you get this word, meaning unable to be calculated
incommutable and incomputable
In a misguided attempt at rebranding, the Disney Corporation hosts an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals which feature singing animals who sing "Zipadee Doo Da"
Song of the South by Southwest
This Venetian explorer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295 is often credited for spreading sorbet-style desserts across Europe
Marco Polo
Miss Othmar
Peanuts
A short-lived Pacman tv show was released in 1982 by this production company which is also responsible for Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, and the Flintstones.
Hanna-Barbera