Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIS HUSTLE and bustle world we live in, it's hard to avoid eating some fast-food every once in awhile. I don't eat red meat and was a happy camper a few years back when the places began offering alternative menus. I was especially happy that I would be able to have it may way at the local Burger King once they began to sell something chickeny for my late-night gastronomical pleasure. Little did I know, though, that Burger King was cooking their chicken sandwich in deadly beef fat, as opposed to more healthful vegetable...
...weeks in the spring of 10th grade working at a Taco Bell outlet in town. My most lasting memory of my tenure there is of the time the manager, Jack, asked me to get some beef out of the freezer. When I returned to tell him that the meat was a most peculiar shade of green, he told me not to worry: "No one will notice once we cook it, Steve...
...recent years a growing number of health-conscious Americans--myself included--have made the decision to cut down on their intake of red meat. That's not good news for an industry that thrives on selling lots'o'burgers to keep its growth charts from becoming ungrowth charts. Hence, the number of salad bars and alternative menus that have sprung up in fast-food bistros across the land...
...that Dartmouth has given up an average of 45 points per game this year, and the Crimson didn't even match that mark. The Cynics say that Harvard (now 2-1 in the Ivy League) has beaten up on a couple of creampuffs, but will get murdered by the meat of the Ivy League...
...getting so that the Miss America Pageant is not such a pretty sight anymore. All that controversy: feminists rapping the contest as a meat rack on a runway; Vanessa Williams' 1984 Penthouse revelations; her 1985 successor, Sharlene Wells, getting razzed by some for being squeaky clean to the opposite extreme. And this year, a very unladylike catfight breaks out in the press after the crown goes to Tennessee's Kellye Cash. At last count, Miss Florida, Molly Pesce, had been quoted as calling the new Miss America the "least-liked girl" in the pageant; Miss Ohio, Mary Zilba, had complained...