2006-09-21 04:41:47 · 7 answers · asked by misscongeniality711 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
But I have a list of specials, and it just says blue plate special... So do I have to call down there and find out what it is?
2006-09-21 04:52:56 · update #1
A blue plate special is a meal at a restaurants that is a special item for the day. Some places have it for all working days. It would be best described as a main course with a pair of side dishes. For instance, the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain sells a lunch special best described as a "blue plate special." Usually the meal served on one plate, a dinner plate, not "a blue plate." I have never been served a blue plate special on a blue-colored plate.
2006-09-21 04:47:38 · answer #1 · answered by bige3969 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Blue-plate special or blue plate special is a term used in the United States by restaurants, particularly (but not only) diners. It refers to a specially-low-priced meal, usually changing daily. It typically consists of a "meat and three" (three vegetables), presented on a single plate, often a divided plate (rather than more elegantly on separate dishes). The term was very common from the 1920s through the 1950s. As of 2005 there are still a few restaurants and diners that offer blue-plate specials under that name, sometimes on blue plates, but it is a vanishing tradition. The phrase itself, however, is still a common American colloquial expression
2006-09-21 11:57:35 · answer #2 · answered by pooh bear 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first use of blue-plate special was on a menu of the Fred Harvey restaurants on 22 October 1892. These restaurants were built at stations to serve the travelling public on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad and it seems the blue-plate set meal was designed to rapidly serve passengers whose trains stopped only for a few minutes. He went on to say, “As to why the term ‘blue plate’—no mystery here. Fred Harvey bought nearly all his serving plates from a company in Illinois. Modelling their inexpensive but sturdy plates after those made famous by Josiah Wedgwood ... these were, of course, blue in color. Thus, quite literally, the ‘blue plate’ special”.
2006-09-21 11:54:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first restruant that featured a special of the day did serve it on a blue plate. It then became known as the "blue plate" special.
2006-09-21 11:51:10 · answer #4 · answered by memorris900 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the blue plate special is the special of the day at a restarant
2006-09-21 11:48:17 · answer #5 · answered by Judy K 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You should call it is the special of the day.
2006-09-21 11:54:09 · answer #6 · answered by butterflyaht1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dinner
2006-09-21 11:46:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋