Take away a pie and a plastic spoon for a sunset picnic at the waterfront Louis Valentino Jr Park, once home to Fort Defiance, which protected Manhattan from British ships in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.

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She's going to remember the wonderful birthday parties you throw, and those crazy plastic-spoon people you two made together.

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Then you're given clothes, a bit of bedding, a plastic cup, plastic knife, fork, spoon, bowl and plate.

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We washed and filled a pan with oil and waited as it heated, fingering the slotted spoon with its scarred plastic handle.

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During lunch and dinner, customers peruse plastic-coated menus for classic greasy-spoon selections like hamburgers, French fries and club sandwiches stacked high with meat and iceberg lettuce.

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