And yet, as eaters of bubble-and-squeak sometimes find, another plateful is often just too tempting.

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She offered him a plateful of everything, but failed to catch his eye, Shawn having developed a habit of speaking to the floor.

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Sometimes, you're just in the mood for a plateful of General Tsao's chicken, egg salad, wings, canned corn and artichoke hearts with a side of pork spareribs.

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The Minnesota National Guard also runs family reintegration academies around the state designed to deal with a plateful of issues ranging from taxes to insurance to children.

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At his weathered beachside home in a gated enclave a few miles north of Patagonia's headquarters, Chouinard puts out a plateful of his salmon, smoked and sliced.

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But rather than trawling blindly through local farming regions, five self-drive touring trails have been created to make it easier than scoffing a plateful of fresh-picked British Columbia blueberries.

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