Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices have upset school budgets as much as they have disturbed household finances. Such essentials as pencils and paper have soared in price. Standard elementary school pencils cost 90? per gross four years ago; now they are $2.25. Students everywhere will be getting more macaroni and cheese and less meat in their school lunches now, and most will be paying more for them (up from an average of 40? to 50? this fall). The Hauppauge school system on Long Island will pay 25% more for fuel oil this year, but willingly signed a contract with a supplier who at least...
...power - they purchase 1% of all the beef wholesaled in the nation - to line up steady supplies at stable prices in all normal times, and Oak Brook will help out in a pinch. Headquarters executives are currently buying up live steers with "contributions" levied on licensees, who get the meat back in the form of patties. McDonald's chiefs figure that they have corralled enough steers to get the company through the current beef shortage and avoid a price boost when the ceiling comes off retail beef prices this week...
Gael Greene, New York magazine's Insatiable Critic: "When I want meat, I want a steak. But when I want a hamburger, I want a Big Mac. It has all those disreputable things-cheese made of glue, Russian dressing three generations removed from the steppes, and this very thin patty of something that is close enough to meat. It's an incredibly decadent eating experience. And I love the malts-thick, sweet and ice-cold. They're better than if they were real...
...Price-fixing may be useful when strong corporations and strong unions with big wages are pushing up the prices, but it has no point whatsoever when the prices are being raised by an excess of demand. As I see it, the meat crisis is the result of comprehensive mismanagement by the Nixon administration. It is still to be corrected by the former dean of the Harvard faculty....Crops have been bad this year, but no one should blame anything on God as long as you have the Nixon administration." --John Kenneth Galbraith, one of several economists commenting on the meat...
...subtle changes Food Services currently has in mind include such alterations as more puddings and fewer pies for dessert, and perhaps a less varied selection; less expensive cuts of beef; and, if meat prices in general remain abnormally high or rise further, more poultry dishes...