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<text id=91TT2103>
<title>
Sep. 23, 1991: Business Notes:Inventions
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 45
Business Notes
INVENTIONS
Plat Du Jour
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<p> The day may come when gourmands ordering the blue-plate
special at their favorite restaurant will be served...a plate.
An enterprising Asian manufacturer, the Taiwan Sugu Co., last week
launched a line of plates and bowls that not only hold food but
are food. Fashioned from wheat, they resemble standard disposable
dinnerware right down to a glossy finish. What seems to be the
world's first edible table setting could be the ultimate in
biodegradability--if humans don't consume their cutlery and
plates, wildlife is likely to finish the job. Introduction in
American fast-food restaurants is anticipated in perhaps six
months.
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</body></article>
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