Word: meat
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Hence the horse meat...
When the war ended, and with it the rationing,horse meat was removed from the menu. "Theeconomists and others had enjoyed the good,inexpensive horse meat," Coulson says. "And theyasked, 'Where's our horse meat, where's our horsemeat?' So the Club put it back on the menu. It wasthere when I arrived in 1958. A lot of peopleenjoyed it; it's better than venison, I would saythat...
Coulson recounts another ignominious chapter inthe horse meat saga. Purveyors of horse meatdelivered shipments a few times a year, but their18-wheelers were too bulky to negotiate thestreets of Cambridge. "So they'd call me and saystreets of Cambridge. "So they'd call me and say'We're up at the packing house in Lynn.' So I'd goup in my car and watch this big trailer truckunloading all this horse meat--big barrels ofstuff rolling down the conveyor belt--and a coupleof small boxes marked 'Faculty Club...
...talking to the guy that was running it,and I said, 'My God, all that meat comes out.' Iasked, 'Who uses all this meat?', and he said,'Well, there's three places in the Boston area whouse our horse meat: the zoo, the dog track and TheHarvard Faculty Club...
...Todd Rundgren. In No World Order, the veteran singer and producer (Meat Loaf, Grand Funk Railroad) has created the first do-it-yourself album. Listeners with CD-i players can customize any of the 10 tracks to their tastes. They can change the tempo (between 86 and 132 beats a minute), the mix ("natural," "spacious," "sparse" or "karaoke"), the mood ("bright," "happy," "thoughtful," "sad" or "dark"), even the form ("creative," "standard" or "conservative"). They can hatch new sounds by sampling the 933 snatches of music in the data base. Did you ever want to play the chorus of a favorite...