- published: 13 Jan 2010
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Take-out or takeout (in North American, Philippine English), carry-out (in U.S., Scottish English),take-away (in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong and Ireland),parcel (in Indian English and Pakistani English), or tapau (in Manglish and Singlish—from the Chinese "package it" 打包 da-bao), is food purchased at a restaurant for the purpose of being eaten elsewhere. The restaurant may or may not provide table service. In the United States and Canada, food ordered this way (especially in fast food) is ordered to go, and in the UK it is ordered to take away or sometimes to eat out, as opposed to eating in or dining in.
Take-out food is often fast food, but not always so. Whereas fast food carries the connotation of a standardized product from a globalized chain or franchise, take-away outlets are often small businesses serving traditional food, which is sometimes but by no means always of high quality. Examples include neighbourhood fish and chip shops in England, Australia and New Zealand; sandwiches sold by delis in the U.S.; kebabs sold in many countries; and the wide range of sausage-based snacks sold from stalls in German cities.
Actors: Kathy Burke (actress), Conrad Vernon (actor), Andy Serkis (actor), Newell Alexander (actor), Jean Reno (actor), Bill Nighy (actor), Shane Richie (actor), Christopher Fairbank (actor), Christopher Fairbank (actor), Christopher Fairbank (actor), Hugh Jackman (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), David Suchet (actor), Kate Winslet (actress), Miriam Margolyes (actress),
Plot: Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a beloved pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides he's hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad - who royally despises all rodents equally, making no distinction between mice and rats--wants them iced... literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin - that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog.
Keywords: animal, boat, cell-phone, computer-animation, dreamworks-animated-film, fart-joke, flatulence, flushed-down-a-toilet, frog, greek-chorus