Bare meal deal may disappear

GREENVILLE, Maine — “Naked Lunch” just doesn’t sound appetizing to some people.

A sandwich called the Skinny Dip, featuring prime rib in a baguette, has been offered free to anyone willing to plunge naked from The Black Frog Restaurant’s dock into a lake.

Since introducing the offer three years ago, owner Leigh Turner has found plenty of takers. “We’ve had two or three a week,” he said.

But now the promotion is running into trouble. It surfaced this week when Town Manager John Simko presented the Black Frog’s application to renew its liquor license. Simko said he had been approached about the nudity and suggested Police Chief Scott MacMaster speak to the owner.

Turner did not attend the selectmen’s meeting, but said he would remove the free lunch offer if asked to do so.

The skinny dip was typically done at night, no frontal nudity was exposed to customers and a towel was readily available, Turner said. “Most everybody applauded” after the plunge, Turner said.

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