canteen
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Some diners raised concerns during the canteen trial.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The final plan adopted in 2022 added details such as meeting facilities, a fitness center, canteen, Patriot Store and other “community-serving activities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
In Volkswagen’s hometown of Wolfsburg, the company’s taste for self-sufficiency extends to making its own sausages for the staff canteen and owning the local soccer club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Over in the canteen, Syrian and African musicians chow down with Posdnuos from De La Soul and sitar legend Anoushka Shankar.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
He was always leaving little gifts in Nate’s tent—a pair of wool socks, a tin canteen.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
At the height of the Cold War, Moscow operated an airport on Svalbard and three mining towns complete with state-of-the-art health facilities and 24-hour canteens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Imperial College London dropped beef from most of its canteens two years ago, replacing it with venison alongside chicken and pork.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
A PowerPoint presentation seen by the BBC outlined new lunch arrangements, with different year groups assigned to separate canteens.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
“The main thing is just not to starve to death,” one video blogger advised in a post detailing how she subsisted on snack samples and free meals from temples and student canteens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Then he was out the other side of town, and there were piles of stacked Union muskets, blankets and canteens and wagons, the abandoned implements of war.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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