Word: filets
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...food that is as elegant as the ambience. Little has been changed inside. Diners enter through a ticket booth, scanning a big schedule board, and buy tickets printed with a destination that determines their choice of entree: New Orleans books their shrimp; Virginia, cloved, sugar-coated ham; New York, filet mignon...
...fare as well. The spider Arabella, which became famous by demonstrating that it could spin a web in zero G, survived the return to earth. But its arachnid companion Anita died before the end of the mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely to earth, only to die a day later...
...hybrid meat will not soon replace filet mignon at finer restaurants, but compared with regular beef, it is more tender, contains significantly more protein and less fat. It tastes much like conventional beef but is slightly richer. Best of all, Basolo figures that it will eventually be priced 25% to 40% cheaper than the real thing...
...like Christmas in our warehouses-turkeys and fryers are really moving out." A Los Angeles shopper, Jane Burnham, pledged: "I'll boycott until I grow feathers from eating so much chicken." Others seemed to be willing to sprout scales. Fish sales rose sharply, driving up the price of filet of sole to $2.90 a Ib. in many places, exceeding the cost of porterhouse steak...
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