Word: repast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rise 1.6% over last year, and for pork 2.3%. Having it your way now includes having a plate, fork and knife included with a bunless Whopper at Burger King. Celebrities and everyday folks alike are bragging about the bacon and eggs they downed for breakfast, followed by a midday repast of pork rinds. In return for this unlimited meat, all the new diets ask is that you lay off the penne and rice. Who wouldn't like a diet that works at a Vegas buffet...
During Ramadan, many Muslims wake up before sunrise to prepare for the fast by eating a meal before a prayer at dawn. Dawn is currently around 5:30 a.m. University Dining Services can provide students with prepared breakfasts for this repast, but many students say that this year they have been grabbing fly-by lunches or a nutri grain bar. After eating, individuals say the morning prayer. The next daily prayer is at sunset...
Even that holiday holdout of home cooking known as Thanksgiving seems doomed. A Boston Market survey last year reported that 27 million Americans bought some prepared food for the repast. Charles Webre, 35, an ad executive in New York City, and his clothing-designer wife Priscilla, 35, spent $400 last year for a 12-course store-bought Thanksgiving. "I felt like I cheated," says Charles, who presented the meal on the family china. "I work hard, we have two kids, and my wife is stressed out. We believe in traditional-food values, but we don't have the time...
...true bard of bijou will always remain Truman Capote, who begat Holly Golightly (now that was a name) and her unorthodox notions of a morning repast...
...slide into the tiny blood vessel. Down one tube comes her saliva, which deadens sensation and blocks coagulation. Up the other goes a drop of her victim's blood. In less than a minute, she makes her getaway. She finds a place to rest and digest her vampire's repast, while her victim is left to scratch the welt that soon forms in allergic reaction to her ghoulish drool...