Word: roasting
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Radarange is still too expensive for the home. But eventually, Raytheon hopes, a housewife will be able to slip a pot roast into the range and rush it to the table before her homecoming husband has parked his overcoat. For rare roast beef, rich brown outside, warm pink within, he will have to wait awhile: it is still beyond Radarange...
...Kansas City somebody's mother entered a meat shop, was handed a package marked $4.65. "What is it?" she asked. Said the clerk: "A pot roast." She kept on being difficult: "How much does it weigh?" The clerk sighed, kept his temper in a most gentlemanly way, and answered: "Lady, we don't weigh it. We sell it by the piece. Don't you want it?" Then the little lady made the biggest mistake of all. She said...
...Listen . . . But in Manhattan a thousand sharpies got the word "beef" on the grapevine from the 14th Street Market, were thus able to stand in the rain all night, get into the scrimmage and out again with the bacon by noon the next day. You could get a bear roast in Denver if you knew the right party. And all over the U.S. people were eating venison. A lot of old poacher's tricks were as good as ever, although discretion was necessary. An overanxious hunter in Puente, Calif, got arrested last week after he chased a buck...
...meat than Canadians (1946 estimated per capita consumption: American, 141 Ibs.; Canadian, 136 Ibs.). But Canada had not mismanaged her meat supply the way the U.S. had (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Now she had ample meat and low prices, stable at their ceilings (about 33? a Ib. for prime rib roast, 37? a Ib. for veal chops, 49?^ a Ib. for porterhouse steak...
...Fare of Power. Tito has obliged. Since the lean days of mountain fighting, his girth has increased considerably on the rich fare of power (and on sweets). He likes good eating. At official banquets, he serves whole roast boars, huge Polish hams, gallons of Dalmatian wine. Like his master, Tito's favorite Alsatian dog Tiger has also put on weight...