Word: menu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though his menu lists such exotic items as Bongo Bongo Soup, Javanese Sate and Bah-Mee, they are really American versions (or inventions) for American palates. "Take a Tahitian pudding made with arrowroot," says the Trader. "It's so tough you can throw it and use it as a handball. Or take a squab. In the average Chinese restaurant, that little fella comes out with his dead eyes staring you in the face. When the customer sees that naked head and the beak and the eyes, he wants no part of it. We chop the neck off it, barbecue...
Hinky Dink's. The Trader does little to discourage the legend that his leg was snipped off by an unfriendly shark in the islands. But the story is as unreal as his menu. Born in California, he grew up in Oakland, where his parents ran a small grocery. At the age of six, a tuberculosis attack cost him his left leg; despite the handicap, Bergeron was so agile on his crutches that he played for his grammar school soccer team. He quit school at 16, two years later was able to buy his first wooden leg. For the next...
...Adams, Dunster, and Quincy adopt a single menu for next year, it will be the second major change in the dining halls in the past year. This fall the University hired a catering organization to operate Harkness Commons after the dining hall had lost $55,000 last year...
Serving a single menu in these Houses would "save a great deal of money" by "facilitating the purchasing of the Houses food," Tucker stressed. Purchasing is "at present one of the most confused areas" in the dining hall system, he noted...
Tucker said that the idea of a common menu has been "in the air" for about four years, although this is the first time that the University Dining Halls have given it serious consideration. It was one recommendation of the Harris-Kerr-Foster Report of 1957, which called for a standard menu for all University dining halls...