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Trumps 1981. Dinner menu.

Trumps 1981. Dinner menu. Trumps 1981. Dinner menu.

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Tag yourselves — I’m the $5 mixed greens 🔥

Rebecca Luxton

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.'

Emil Ahmad

Valium sorbet as a palate cleanser not shown.

Keith campbell

$16 in 1981, damn, that’s steep!!

Mark DeCaro

I see they've omitted the pork loin with lime Jell-O.

Dean Lowenstein

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.

Todd Longwell

Is that the lobster with vanilla sauce?

Leonard Appleman

Wow. How did you get the menu?!

Fan

what a shitty menu. is that real? there's nothing I'd order there

David Schur

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.

Matthew D Specktor

“When you order for me, you’re really ordering for yourself, dude.”

Mickey Rock

Whoa, those prices! 😂

Rena

I'll have the smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, please.

Benjamin Terpstra

😋

Romeo Delta Charlie

what a laugh..... I'm new here... be gentle.

Oslo Zeimantz

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-01-me-roberts1-story.html?_amp=true

Eric Macom


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