blue-plate special

See also: blue plate special

English

A typical blue plate, with a mug

blue-plate special (plural blue-plate specials)

(chiefly US, dated) A popular meal offered at a reduced price, usually in inexpensive eateries and often on a plate divided into compartments for different food items.
- 1928 December 2, Bertram Reinitz, “Where New York Dines on Dime”, in New York Time, page 162:
  His big blue plate special, with meat course and three vegetables, is purchasable for a quarter.
- 1968, Erik Barnouw, A History of Broadcasting in the United States: The Golden Web: 1933 to 1953, Oxford, →ISBN, page 36:
  Most had stayed at the convention hotel, but at dinner time many went across the street for the fifty-cent blue plate special.

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