Word: meats
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...special object of the Lord's Supper was social religion, to bind Christ's followers together. It was grafted on the Passover and, like it, was a family meal. All the names used for it, the Supper the Eucharist or thanksgiving (like Grace after meat) the Greek and Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache...
...principle articles of food used at dinner are 80 gallons of soup, 350 pounds of fish, 1500 pounds of meat, 10 bushels of potatoes and one of rice, two barrels of fresh vegetables, from 10 to 20 cans of vegetables, 70 gallons of ice cream and 150 pounds of cake or 40 gallons of pudding. Each day $275 is paid for meat, $50 for vegetables, $60 for deserts and $50 for milk. The total cost of food per day is about $470, with $125 for service. The extra orders amount to about $30 each...