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Alcopop! Records

Currently on its sixth offering, Alcopopular has been released as a 3" CD, a cassette tape, a message in a bottle, a restaurant menu and fold out 'Hithikers Guide to the UK' and has included tracks from the likes of Freelance Whales, The Xcerts, Unicorn Kid, Pulled Apart By Horses, and many more. Loud and Quiet also suggested "We need labels like Alcopop to offer us something a little out of the ordinary.

Benne dose

Today, benne dosa is almost synonymous with the city of Davangere and has found its own well-deserved place in the menu cards of all well-known restaurants in Karnataka.

Bubba Gump Shrimp Company

The menu consists mostly of shrimp dishes, but also other seafood, as well as Southern and Cajun cuisine, due to the main character, Forrest, being from inland Alabama and his friend, Bubba, being from the Gulf Coast of Alabama.

Burger King products

The expanded Burger King menu was part of a plan by then-company president Donald N. Smith to reach the broadest possible demographic market to better compete with McDonald's, and to fend off then newcomer Wendy's, who had a growing market share.

Cheong Liew

He then became the owner of the popular Adelaide restaurant Neddys, where the menu consisted of mostly Malaysian and Chinese dishes.

Configuration Menu Language

Eric S. Raymond wrote a menu-driven module named CML2 to replace it, but it was officially rejected.

D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat

The third single, "Shake Your Coconuts", can be found on the Looney Tunes: Back in Action soundtrack and as background menu music in the video game Worms 3D.

Emergency Management Services

Emergency Management Services (EMS) provides an RS-232 accessible serial console interface to the bootloader menu on modern versions of Microsoft Windows.

Farley's Eatery and Pub

Actor Steve Carell, who portrays Michael Scott in the NBC sitcom, allegedly told reporters he would personally fly to Scranton to "cut the ribbon" if Farley's were to place a "Michael Scott Burger" on their menu.

Fried clams

Fried clams have been served since at least 1865, and most likely earlier, as they have been found on an 1865 menu from the Parker House hotel restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts.

J. Wesley Gephart

As one of the principal honorees, Gephart delivered a speech on the "Future of Bellefonte," and "Canvasback duck à la Gephart" was among the dishes on the menu.

Java GUI for R

Although unlike Rcmdr, RKWard, Rattle or PMG, JGR provides no statistical menu-driven facilities, recently a GUI on top of JGR has been developed: Deducer aims to be an intuitive graphical data analysis system in some respects similar to SPSS or Minitab.

Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000

The game has a shortened version of "Genocide" by The Offspring in the title menu.

Konica Minolta Tower Centre

The restaurant was redesigned by Robin De Groot for the television program Restaurant Makeover, completely transforming the environment and menu to the delight of Niagara Falls.

Kosher restaurant

One such instance was a Dunkin' Donuts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, D.C.), which made the decision to be non-kosher in 2007 in order to offer menu items sold at non-kosher Dunkin' Donuts locations (such as ham).

Light in Darkness

The song has received many positive reviews and became the main menu song on NASCAR The Game: Inside Line for Xbox, PlayStation and Wii.

Linger in Shadows

The resulting menu item allows the viewer to watch an "oldskool demo" with a starfield, two DYCP scrollers (using the Amiga character set) and various other early demo effects such as blitter objects and metaballs (intentionally made to look low resolution), with chiptune music accompanying it.

Me. In Time

One of the single's B-sides, "Subtitle" was featured on The Charlatans' second studio album Between 10th and 11th, and later appeared on the DVD compilation Just Lookin' 1990–1997 as the disc's menu screen accompaniment music.

Menu blinking

Only in Classic Mac OSes there have been preferences for Menu Blinking where you can control how many times the selection rectangle blinks.

Mick Cornett

He also teamed up with Taco Bell and local restaurants to promote healthy menu choices.

Œ

On mobile devices running iOS, Android or Windows Mobile, œ and Œ are accessed by holding down O until a small menu is displayed.

Pancho's Mexican Buffet

Chicken Nuggets Corn Dogs and French Fries are served in their kid's menu as well as a "kid size" buffet.

Patchi

The menu is famous for integrating roasted nuts (hazelnuts, pistachios, almonds), Gianduja, Orange Peel, dried Strawberry bits, and more.

PizzaExpress

In 2008, PizzaExpress started a Guest Chef Series with chef Theo Randall, of Theo Randall at InterContinental London, creating exclusive dishes for its menu.

PowerPlant

It was designed to work with a GUI editor called Constructor; unusually for such programs, Constructor was primarily a resource editor specializing primarily in UI elements, including several custom resource types, 'PPob' ("PowerPlant object" -- a general view description), 'CT Y P' (custom widgets), and Mcmd (used for dispatching menu-related events).

Quicken Loans Arena

In October 2009, the Cleveland Cavaliers announced that award-winning chef Michael Symon would contribute menu items to be prepared by foodservice firm Aramark at The Q. Two existing restaurants were renamed after Symon's bar-bistros Bar Symon and The B-Spot, and some of his signature dishes were made available as suite catering offerings.

Raphi Cohen

Cohen combined in the restaurant menu the Haute cuisine with strong influence from the Moroccan cuisine which he learned from his grandmother, with dishes like Moroccan Cigars and Couscous.

Rave Cinemas

Most theaters features multiple concession stands, arcade games, online and kiosk ticketing, and a futuristic environment with special lighting, LCD menu and film trailer displays, and some have a stylized special event room.

Raw bar

Raw bars serve a selection of oysters and quahogs, and sometimes supplement the menu with cooked versions of the same seafoods such as clam chowder, oyster stew, and steamers.

Regent Inns

Their menu offers Australian-themed foods such as Kangaroo and Crocodile fillets.

Reuben's Restaurant

The restaurant's menu included sandwiches named for celebrities; Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra both had sandwiches named for them.

SamLogic

Examples of software that SamLogic has developed are: CD-Menu Creator (menu designer tool), Visual Installer (setup tool) and MultiMailer (e-mail marketing tool).

Screen-labeled function keys

Modern Texas Instruments calculators such as the TI-89 series use function keys to open drop-down menus on their menu bar, the menu title acting like the key label.

Casio calculators use the function keys for a menu at the bottom of the screen.

Seacroft Hospital

In October 2002 Loyd Grossman and a team of leading chefs designed "leading chef" dishes for the menu.

Self-Defense Training Camp

There are four selectable game modes on the main menu: "Cardio Workout", "Balance Practices", "Self Defense Rehearsal", and "Reflex Training".

Shopsins

Shopsins was known for both its extensive (900-item) menu of unusual dishes concocted by chef/owner Kenny Shopsin, including items such as "Slutty Cakes", pancakes with peanut butter in the middle, and "Blisters on My Sisters", similar to (Huevos rancheros), and for Kenny Shopsin himself, described by Time Out New York as "the foul-mouthed middle-aged chef and owner".

Sylvia Schur

Along the way, she got into product development for various food companies, such as Ocean Spray Cran-Apple juice, and helped develop the original menu of The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City.

Tarney/Spencer Band

The band's second 1978 album (1st for A&M), recorded in London, was titled Three's a Crowd, produced by David Kershenbaum and featured cover art with rounded corners, shaped like an American style cafe menu card.

The Cheesecake Factory

The company used to operate one self-service, limited-menu express food service operation under The Cheesecake Factory marque inside the DisneyQuest family entertainment center in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

The War on Errorism

The track, "The Idiots Are Taking Over" was featured as the song on the DVD menu of The Sasquatch Gang.

Thenewno2

Thenewno2 have been credited with the album design for George Harrison's Brainwashed, Concert for George, The Dark Horse Years Box Set, and the menu design for the Concert for Bangladesh DVD.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Her friend, the chef Mark Hix, has named a dish after Webster, 'Webster's Fish Fingers,' which are on the menu of his Soho restaurant Hix.

Tun Tavern

The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia contains a Tun Tavern-themed restaurant with a lunch menu, alcoholic beverages, and bread pudding.

Western pattern diet

Nearly half of the meals ordered from a menu were hamburger, French fries, or poultry — and about one third of orders included a carbonated beverage drink.

Wii U system software

The Wii U Menu may also be used to launch applications entirely beyond just gaming: the Miiverse social network which is integrated with all games and applications; the Internet Browser for the World Wide Web; play media through Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Nintendo TVii, and more; download Wii U software and content through the Nintendo eShop; and receive official notifications from Nintendo.

Winter Challenge

Once the players were selected, the game shows an Opening Ceremonies clip and then took you to a tournament screen where you could see your icons for the seven events, as well as four button that would show your current standings, start a new tournament, enter a password to return to an existing tournament, or return the main menu.


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