Blue-plate special
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A blue-plate special is a discount-priced meal that usually changes daily: a term used in the United States and Canada by restaurants, especially diners and cafes.
The practice was very common from the 1920s through the 1950s. As of 2007[update], there are still a few restaurants and diners that offer blue-plate specials under that name, sometimes on blue plates, but it is a vanishing tradition. However, the phrase is still a common American colloquialism.[citation needed]
A collection of 1930s prose gives this definition: "A Blue Plate Special is a low-priced daily diner special ā a main course with all the fixins, a daily combo, a square for two bits."[1]