Consider the Thanksgiving dinner test.
I could also experiment at dinner, testing dosas at the new South Indian restaurant, partying with friends in the Siberian Hunting Lodge, or feasting on braised snails and grilled mussels in a converted auto garage near the Saigon River.
"It has to pass the family dinner test.
This spring the world's largest food server admitted defeat and canned the dinner test.
The mean weights of carbohydrates, protein, and dietary fiber in the dinner test meals were as follows: low-fat dinner, 96.9 g, 41.3 g, and 10.9 g, respectively; high-fat dinner, 96.4 g, 41.3 g, and 10.4 g, respectively.
I read with great interest the recent article by Wolpert et al. (1) in which they compared postprandial responses elicited by low- and high-fat dinner test meals and concluded that dietary fat increases glucose levels and insulin requirements in people with type 1 diabetes.
Therefore, would Wolpert et al. please indicate the mean weight of the various foods in the low- and high-fat dinner test meals; the mean amounts of carbohydrate, dietary fiber, and protein; and, if possible, the nature of the fat they contained?
It underlines what the former communities minister Lady Warsi once said, observing that Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred passed the "dinner table test".
The trouble when it comes to criticising bad manners is that I fully admit some of my questioning fails the polite dinner party test.
Stirring a potentially explosive debate over faith and politics, the first Muslim woman to serve in the British cabinet said on Thursday that prejudice towards the country's Islamic minority is so prevalent that it is seen by many as normal and uncontroversial and has "passed the dinner table test".
