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Pecan Pie for the Mind: The $45,000 plate of fried chicken

Posted: August 20, 2010 6:39 p.m.
Updated: August 21, 2010 12:30 a.m.
Just to see if I could do it, I ate dinner out for $2.97. I had to use a coupon, and drink water from a special he-didn’t-buy-a-drink-from-us cup, but I actually ate a full dinner for less than three bucks. That’s cheap for a meal in 2010, but back in college in 1981, I could eat out for practically nothing. In fact, I ate quite a few meals for exactly nothing because ...

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