Word: dish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hefty book placed at each dining checker's desk holds page after page of computer printouts listing each dish's nutritional composition including calories, cholesterol and fat content and grams of protein...
Additional innovations include new menu item labels posted on the serving line by each dish. The labels will indicate nutritional values and point the new food item which is planned for every week...
...entrees are reasonably priced, mostly $7.00 to $13.00. Their size, yet again, is almost unreasonably large, but that's not really a negative, now is it? Add to that the buffet to satisfy all of your side-dish fetishes (cornbread), and you'll find the appetizers are quite honestly unnecessary. But as for the taste...when we took our first bite of an enormous brick of a beef burrito bursting with rabbit food filler, the long line at the Border became understandable. The shrimps and mussels prepared in a "Veracruz style" is aesthetically pleasing but is in reality a watered...
Nutritional counts including data about fat and calories for each dish will be available at the checker's tables for the health-conscious and those trapped in Union lines, and menu cards will display this information on the food lines as well...
...there is growing suspicion, not to mention evidence, that our national-fitness fixation has come off the hinge, that there are those among us who are guiltlessly, remorselessly, allowing themselves to kick off their Nikes, sink deep into a couch and stay there. "You used to be quite a dish," said a middle-aged wag upon meeting a former lover. "Now you're quite the tureen...