Directions: Fill in the blanks in this blog post from City Room, “For Champion Dogs, the Traditional Sardi’s Feast Will Continue.”
Use your own words and phrases, or scroll to the end of the post to choose from a scrambled list of the words or phrases that were removed. Another option? Read, or listen to someone read, the original article first, then fill in the blanks from memory.
It had become a tradition: Every year, the winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show had lunch at Sardi’s, the theater district restaurant where the walls are lined with portraits of _________.
And every year, the tradition broke the _________ department’s rules against _________ in restaurants. Even dog-world celebrities like the Westminster winner.
No one noticed until Wednesday afternoon, a couple of hours after this year’s winner, a _________ named _________, had diced chicken and rice on a _________.
The health department ‘s initial position, reported by The New York Post, was that Malachy’s meal would be the _________ enjoyed by any prize-winning dog at Sardi’s.
That possibility prompted, among other things, a conversation between Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley.
The health department did not want to create a _________ in a doggie dish. It did not want to set off a _________ like the one over the _________ at the Algonquin Hotel or the one over the free cheese and crackers on the bar at Sardi’s itself. Both took action to avoid losing points on the health department’s restaurant _________ ” the Algonquin by installing an electric fence to keep the cat from wandering where food was served; Sardi’s by making the cheese and crackers available only if customers asked (and charging as much as $5).
By Thursday morning, the health department had found a _________ that it hoped would _________ the dog-in-a-restaurant issue: a waiver from Dr. Farley.
“Whoever wins will get an exemption,” Mr. Bloomberg told reporters. Referring to Dr. Farley, he
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