>>> Those aren't meals - they're just courses ;-}
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>>>You're right...I forgot the appetizers....a dozen wings (extra hot), or riblets. :)
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>>I suppose what I noticed most about your list was that, with the possible exception of spaghetti, you didn't include a single non-US 'ethnic' dish. I haven't time right now to construct my own list (it would take a lot of careful thought and best be done when I was not hungry) but I'm sure it would include at least one Thai, Indian, French, Spanish and Scandinavian dish....
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>I was in England in the late 50s. My mouth still waters at the thought of the Fish and Chips, wrapped in a newspaper.

I don't think they're allowed to wrap it in newspaper any more. It's usually some form of styrofoam box - which takes something away.
Still popular though (and rightly so)

I remember laughing when (sometime in the '70's) someone started a franchised fish-and-chip chain in the U.S. They'd reprinted the front page of something like the Liverpool Evening News to use as wrapping.