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blue plate special

noun as in special-priced main course

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The first memoir of her itinerant and complicated life is titled “Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites,” followed by a memoir-cookbook called “How to Cook a Moose,” a clear homage to M.F.K.

According to a press release from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force titled "When Bigotry is the Blue Plate Special," which is now held by the University of North Texas archives, queer activists visited Cracker Barrel's corporate headquarters in Lebanon, Tennessee, and ordered the minimum cup of coffee or soda.

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He would sit in the corner behind the Forgotten Man and get a Blue Plate Special with extra ketchup and listen to them saying that they were still with him, after all this time.

Arts and entertainment feature stories ran in glorious color, and our food pages, like Tinky Weisblat’s Blue Plate Special series, just popped with color.

And he’d like to offer a rotating “blue plate” special to add some variation to the relatively small, 12-item menu for regulars.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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