"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> Used to be in pretty much any restaurant...maybe not a really fancy
>> one...you could get a diet plate. It usually consisted of a hamburger
>> patty, sometimes a chicken breast, sliced tomatoes, a scoop of cottage
>> cheese and some sort of canned fruit. I haven't seen anything like that
>> on a menu for years. Ruby's Diner does have a hamburger salad. That's a
>> tossed salad with a hamburger patty on it. That's the closest thing I've
>> seen!
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> They still have what they call a *diet* plate like that at Lyon's.

Really? I had thought all the Lyon's had closed. My husband said there are
still a few open. We don't have any places like that here. *sigh*