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Trumps 1981. Dinner menu.
🕑 Added 2021-01-10 19:45:27 +0000 UTC
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Rebecca Luxton
Tag yourselves — I’m the $5 mixed greens 🔥
Emil Ahmad
Todd..you have it spot on. Sharp work chief. But this shift is seductive, draws you in, makes one embrace the literary inconsistencies rather than questioning things... it is convenient to accept it, believe it. It all washes over you. As Bret Ellis used to say, 'We only slide down the surface of things.'
Keith campbell
Valium sorbet as a palate cleanser not shown.
Mark DeCaro
$16 in 1981, damn, that’s steep!!
Dean Lowenstein
I see they've omitted the pork loin with lime Jell-O.
Todd Longwell
That article find is very significant, because it reveals Ellis' game in "The Shards." Almost every detail outside of the conversation and the look of the individual employees comes from that article, from the food they order to the guests at the restaurant. So he's not working from his touted excellent memory of that day. He's doing research and passing it off as memory. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. It's what writers do. And he's tipping his hand as an unreliable narrator, repeatedly telling us that his friends are always getting on his case for embellishing his stories. "The Shards" is a campfire story Bret is telling us. But I'm like a 7-year-old who just stopped believing in Santa Claus who knows he'd enjoy Christmas more if the lie were real.
Leonard Appleman
Is that the lobster with vanilla sauce?
Fan
Wow. How did you get the menu?!
David Schur
what a shitty menu. is that real? there's nothing I'd order there
Matthew D Specktor
Now do Charmer's Market.
Matthew D Specktor
In my mind I'm having the cornmeal cakes with chicken and clams (wtf?), but in reality it was probably the scallops or the swordfish.
Mickey Rock
“When you order for me, you’re really ordering for yourself, dude.”
Rena
Whoa, those prices! 😂
Benjamin Terpstra
I'll have the smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, please.
Romeo Delta Charlie
😋
Oslo Zeimantz
what a laugh..... I'm new here... be gentle.
Eric Macom
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-01-me-roberts1-story.html?_amp=true
