It was not the colonists' money the crew wanted, as Hood pointed out over the meat course.

Hot side dishes brought out with the meat course include:

Any meat course is $8 with one side, $9 with two sides.

The main meat course in particular took a lot of chewing.

For those reasons the main course is sometimes referred to as the "meat course".

"In addition to other things, they always serve pasta first at meals, before the meat course."

"Oh no, she doesn't," said Christina, coming in with the meat course.

The meat course seemed to Richard to have gone on for an hour.

The meat course came in and then the pudding.

Christine's memory of the meat course was to be a bit vague later.