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What's "meat and three"? The article didn't seem to explain it and it's a colloquialism I've never heard before.

• wilkystyle 7y ago
  Had to look it up, myself. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_and_three https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_and_three, it's a meal consisting of 1 meat and 3 side dishes.
  • Johnny555 7y ago
    Ha, I thought it was a way to say "Meat and 13 dollars of gasoline" (3 and 10 = 13)
    • Pfhreak 7y ago
      This was my initial reading as well.
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• prepend 7y ago
  There’s a category of restaurants, common in the south, where a customer picks a type of meat and three vegetables at a certain price. Commonly served cafeteria style. It usually means the food is cooked in large portions throughout the day and served in single portions. Fun side effect, many in my large southern city are now owned and operated by Chinese and Vietnamese families. It’s neat seeing a southern tradition carried on by a new set of people. Reminds me of how many Mexican restaurants in Manhattan in 2000 were run by Chinese families.