Word: salad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only way Gapified culture can succeed is if it is mass culture, if it can make anybody special. We buy it first, thinking it makes us special, then we notice that everyone else is wearing jeans, T-shirts and blazers, and is eating the szechuan noodle salad. At the same time, those people who aren't Gapified are left to rot; not important, not "individuals of style...
Cobb started off his meal with a plate of fried shrimp and brown rice, vegetable minestrone soup, a roll, a salad and a piece of cake...
Since Mather workers allowed Cobb only one entree on his first turn through the line, he employed the tried-and-true Harvard trick of dumping his left-over shrimp into an empty salad bowl before returning to the kitchen for seconds...
Cobb estimated that in the average restaurant he reviews, his meal would have cost $7-9 for the shrimp, $1.25-1.50 for the soup, $5-6 for the tofu stir-fry, $1.25-1.50 for the cake, and extra for the roll, salad bar and drinks. That adds up to at least $15 and probably closer to $20 for the entire dinner, if he had bought each item separately...
...Souper Salad guy?" asked a cashier at the eatery in The Garage, referring to restaurant in that mall...