Word: menusing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been going all out in recent weeks to make the project seem as French as it can be. As a result, Mickey and Donald are developing French accents. Paris, for example, is lobbying for French names on attractions and rides, "pommes frites" instead of "French fries" on restaurant menus. Thus the centerpiece of every Disney park -- the fairy tale castle -- will be known at Euro Disneyland as Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant (although a hot dog will still...
...consequence, buffalo dominate the state. Buffalo rugs adorn hotel lobbies, buffalo steaks appear on menus, buffalo experts expound theories of the rise and decline of buffalo and buffalo chips are used as fire starters...
...imaginary nut letters from folks eager to win a "National Fundament of the Arts" grant. The theme, "America, Where Have You Come From, Where Are You Bound?," is to be realized on the wall of a Washington office building. A Phoenix man thinks his father's handmade place-mat menus would be appropriate. Handicrafters from Ocala, Fla., urge a macrame snood over the entire building, and a Los Angeles atheist knows exactly what he doesn't want: depictions of Pilgrims on their knees, or any ethnically mixed group gazing heavenward. Our Founding Fathers were, he argues, "Europe's overflow...
Best New Dining Concept One of the earliest harbingers of economic recession wasn't longer lines at soup kitchens. It was the sight of trendy restaurants frantically begging for new customers by lowering prices, simplifying menus and advertising themselves as -- code words of the '90s -- cafes, grills, bistros or trattorias...
Priciest Slab of Cholesterol Japan's richly marbled Kobe beef, from beer-fed cattle, was featured for the first time on the menus of a few U.S. restaurants. For $100 or so, you could order an inch-high steak weighing...