What does 'Doggy bag' mean?

Na-ri wrote on 23 Apr 2005:
[nq:1]Hello! I got[/nq]
"I have"
[nq:1]a question. I heard a word[/nq]
"the expression"
[nq:1]'Doggy bag' at TV show.[/nq]
"on a TV show".
[nq:1]What does 'Doggy bag' mean?[/nq]
It used to mean a paper or plastic bag that uneaten food food from a restaurant meal was put into so that the customer could take it home to feed to the dog, but

[nq:1]Na-ri wrote on 23 Apr 2005:[/nq]
I've never asked for one, but if I ever do I'll at least pretend I have a dog. We have our image to maintain, do we not?

Charles Riggs
There are no accented letters in my email address.

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[nq:2]Na-ri wrote on 23 Apr 2005: "I have" "the expression" ... food home, whether or not the customer has a dog.[/nq]
[nq:1]I've never asked for one, but if I ever do I'll at least pretend I have a dog. We have our image to maintain, do we not? Charles Riggs There are no accented letters in my email address.[/nq]
English pizza rest

[nq:1]The waiter may go back to the kitchen and say "I need a doggy bag for table four.", but they don't use the phrase to the customer.[/nq]
I beg to differ. My first recollection of this term dates from the early 1960s, when a waiter in a restaurant somewhere on the coast of Massachusetts asked my parents if we'd like a doggy bag and my parents said 'Yes.'
I was very very worried because

[nq:2]English pizza restaurant[/nq]
[nq:1]That's a very strange string of three very ordinary words.[/nq]
And only one of them is English.

Paul
In bocca al Lupo!

[nq:2]English pizza restaurant[/nq]
[nq:1]That's a very strange string of three very ordinary words.[/nq]
It seems like perfectly ordinary string of words to me. In fact it *is* a perfectly ordinary string of words.
What makes you think it so strange? Serious question.

Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

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[nq:2]That's a very strange string of three very ordinary words.[/nq]
[nq:1]It seems like perfectly ordinary string of words to me. In fact it *is* a perfectly ordinary string of words. What makes you think it so strange? Serious question.[/nq]
My favourite English pizza restaurant:

[nq:1]Mike Barnes put finger to keyboard in this fashion:[/nq]
[nq:2]It seems like perfectly ordinary string of words to me. ... words. What makes you think it so strange? Serious question.[/nq]
I don't want to know what "English pizza" is, for one thing. One imagines something involving Yorkshire pudding or mushy peas or Marmite. I might also question "pizza restaurant", a phrase I wouldn

Areff put finger to keyboard in this fashion:
[nq:2]My favourite English pizza restaurant: http://www.sugarvine.com/Manchester/minisite/restaurant.asp? restaurant=5884 Or doesn't it count because it's owned run and staffed by Italians?[/nq]
[nq:1]Looked promising, but then I saw that

[nq:2]Mike Barnes put finger to keyboard in this fashion:[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't want to know what "English pizza" is, for one thing. One imagines something involving Yorkshire pudding or mushy peas or Marmite.[/nq]
What could be more English than fish-and-chip pizza?

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