Where Bob Wian called a sandwich with french fries and salad item a " combination plate ", Frisch's began calling it a " platter " such as a Big Boy Platter, followed by several other Big Boy chains.
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Almost every Ethiopian restaurant offers combination plates, perfect for first-timers and preferred by some veterans for tasting a spectrum of meat and vegetable dishes, from atikilt wot, a spicy stew of green beans, carrots and cabbage, to yebeg alecha, a mild lamb stew.
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Hippopotamus says that it introduced the non-meat burger to cater for what seemed a growing number of mainly younger customers who ordered a salad or a combination plate, then proceeded to pick out the bits of meat and leave them tidily on the side.
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But newcomers quickly find that the staples of the border diet _ tortillas, rice, beans, enchiladas and tacos _ are impervious to refinement; they are the same from place to place, and since you always order the combination plate, they are the same every day, too.
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I sat at the bar, watched a basketball game on TV and feasted on a combination plate that included a spicy stuffed jalapeno pepper, nachos with cheese, a rich quesadilla stuffed with peppers, tomato and guacamole, a couple of chicken wings and wonderful flautas, which are lightly fried tortillas stuffed with seasoned chipped beef.
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The center had lined up a series of test tubes filled with fat in front of such typical Mexican combination plates as taco salad with sour cream and guacamole ( 71 grams of fat ), chile rellenos ( 96 grams ), beef chimichanga ( 86 grams ) and beef and cheese nachos ( 89 grams ).
