All Out Blueplate as Menu Shrinks in Rationing
A wry exchange reflects postwar food controls as restaurants cut quotas by half. A wary customer asks for cold cuts and a kitchen reply notes the menu is severely reduced with the All Out Blueplate the sole remaining specialty.
Menu Mystery and Ration Jokes at the Ritz
A dining scene turns comic as a waiter explains stars on the menu and canned soup costs. The exchange leads into a rambling chronology of famous numbers from 1917 to 1943, ending with a quip about Churchill and his doctors during illness.
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