Roast beef

I tell the waiter, 'We'll have two roast beefs, one well-done, the other medium rare.'

But the cars & trucks held cartons of roast chickens, slabs of cheeses, loaves of bread, racks of hotdogs, case upon case of soft drinks, cases of bottled sparkling water, pies, cakes, roast beefs & baked hams.

No delicate little tidbits at these parties; there are buckets of shrimps and oysters, roast beefs and hams and tables of sweets with smiling corporate heads and their lobbyists to greet the guests.

Two or three times a week I had to deliver fifteen- or twenty-pound roast beefs to delis around the Bronx so that they could cook them and slice them up for sandwiches.

We had a freezer up until maybe two years ago. We used to pack a lot of roast beefs.

Because there, in the middle of the table, among the roast beefs on rolls,[…]