Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lexicon of Brillat-Savarin, world-renowned gourmet, there is no such word as grits,* But in the U.S. South, from plantation mansion to tenant shack, grits has been part of a way of life for generations. Many Southerners eat grits with every meal, few understand why Yankees find it insipid...
...Grits (also called hominy or hominy grits) is a coarsely ground, somewhat glutinous meal made from corn, is eaten with melted butter or hot gravy...
Many of the Councils recommendations have already gone into effect. Dunster men now have seconds on non-rationed vegetables, a non-meat choice at every fish meal, and a choice of coreals is offered at breakfast. Adams reported a general improvement in the food since the open meeting a week ago Saturday, while Lowell, only civilian House not to make a formal complaint, has already had the requested open sandwiches...
Hayes declared that civilian House members were allowed only 93 ration points per meal, while Navy men are given 1.96 points, or over twice the ration of the civilians...
...their discovery in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, said they started their patients on a reducing diet of 900 to 1,300 calories, administered the drug only when hunger got the better of the patients. Backsliders then got about 5 mg. of dextroamphetamine an hour before each meal. (When necessary patients also got thyroid extract or a diuretic to help them get rid of liquids...