Word: omelet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things have happened to your old buddy Gordo since you last heard my signal, soon after I crash-landed through the Tanner family's garage roof and decided to stay here in sunny California. There are drawbacks: this place earth is so outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke cats, they aren't even trying to get the meat tender for sauteing. Yet they eat armored slugs that they call escargots! And they never heard of sloppy joes with fiber glass...
...have every credit card known to man, but this morning I cut some up," she admits. Caldwell plans to keep the mink coat she bought last month, but forget about those $100 dinners for two. "I'll be staying home more to cook the two things I know, an omelet and Lean Cuisine...
...Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. The two men had never met. As they settled at Shawn's regular table, Gottlieb gave Shawn his reply to the petition, a three-sentence note that expressed sympathy but declared his intention "to take up this new job." As Gottlieb toyed with his omelet and Shawn ate an English muffin, the two decided that Gottlieb should take over in mid- February, after a week spent working with Shawn...
...sealed bags that hold appetizers and main courses and are available at Bloomingdale's in New York City and have more recently been introduced at Marshall Field's in Chicago leave almost everything to be desired in flavor and texture. Based on tastings of a dozen or so choices (omelet creole, lobster bisque, ravioli with snails, poached salmon and pork with apricots), these generally expensive creations, with main courses from $2.25 for pasta to $12.90 for veal, are a cut above airline food...
...dried salt codfish. Noise, music, tiles and fake Spanish paintings (a not- quite- Picasso Guernica here, a playful pseudo-Miro there) attract yuppies of all ages, who begin to line up at 6:30 every evening. Among the more delectable possibilities: red beans with snails, a layered potato omelet, white beans with clams, and deep-fried eggs. Usually on hand are steak with chili corn sauce, stuffed squid, eggplant and tomato combinations and even small portions of main-course dishes like paella. The tiny portions range in price from $1.50 to $5.50, and the check grows as drinking induces hunger...