Menu Talk Quotes
"In the West, when you stop at an inn, they say -- 'What will you have? Brown meal and common doings, or white wheat and chicken fixings?' -- that is, 'Will you have pork and brown bread, or white bread and fried chicken?' Also, 'Will you have a feed or a check?' -- a dinner or luncheon?"
Frederick Marryat, 'A Dairy in America' (1839)
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