"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
> : 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!
> I se it, or a variant, usually without the fruit, listed in many of he
> diner/coffeshops in NYC. I have also seen it in Oneonta NY at a Greek
> diner. I never get it becuse I don't eat cotage cheese with meaat.

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Hmmm... Maybe we just don't have it here?