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First Reading

Paul Brewster  •  Link

Per L&M: "[Cookshops] were eating-houses which also sent cooked dishes out, but they were usually not allowed to sell drink."
Sounds like a "carry-out" or for you Brits, "take away".

cum salis grano  •  Link

additional read:
"...The ordinary normally consisted of plain English fare, but our period also sees the beginning of that fondness for French cuisine which has been a feature of eating-out in London ever since. A passion for things French might simply involve the disguising of bad meat by a bad sauce, as Jonathan Swift discovered in 1710 when he had 'a neck of mutton dressed à la Maintenon, that the dog could not eat'. .."

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Second Reading

Bill  •  Link

Even a colonial like me knows this:

takeaway
1. (chiefly UK, Australia and New Zealand, of food) To be eaten off the premises.
Synonyms
(to be eaten off premises): to go (North America)
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Sjoerd Spoelstra  •  Link

Going out to eat at a French "ordinary" or cookshop was becoming more and more popular (in 1665) and visiting the French eating-houses in Covent Garden was considered most fashionable

Quote from:

Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-century France and England - Gesa Stedman

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