Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repairmen to resolve thousands of consumer complaints and have managed to get back $150,000 for aggrieved shoppers. Though the bureau lacks the power to levy fines, it has made its weight felt. When investigators discovered recently that several supermarkets in the city were labeling $1.59-a-lb. rib roast as $2.19-a-lb. club steak, and selling rump as more expensive eye-round cuts, Deaner warned the store managers to stop. When they did not, she told the press, and the practice ceased. Still Deaner believes that her department should be able to enforce consumer fraud laws...
...entrees have big names and offered little. The Beef Korma With Rice was a good excuse for beef Stroganoff, with a dash of cumin and coriander. If you order Roast Beef With Nicoise Sauce and Marinated Vegetables ($3.00) you get three small slices of round roast, an anonymous sauce of ketchup, mayonnaise and sour cream, and a collection of cold, precooked vegetables: one string bean (inspired), one carrot, one broccoli spear. (If the vegetables were marinated in anything it was boiling water...
...more expensive sandwiches, and a much larger menu to choose from, try the Midget Delicatessen (1712 Mass Ave, near the Radcliffe dormitories). The Mustard Cup, across the street, has great cheese cake. Roy Rogers (1613 Mass Ave) is worth avoiding unless you like pre-processed roast beef and the atmosphere of a McDonalds...
...roast beef at Hungry Charlie's (right in the Square) is not much better, but Charlie's apple beer, served in a tall mug, is worth trying...
...elephant of a building with a view over the port (impressively clean) and the Royal Palace (depressingly severe). The reason was simple. The U.S. Population Institute served a delicious free lunch there: marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring in fresh cream, tiny meat balls, thick slices of rare roast beef. To ask an environmentalist to dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full of cancer-causing aflatoxins. "Don't know why the Swedes...