On 2/5/2014 11:02 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

>> Here too but that link said in some country they refer to the main part of
>> the meal, main dish or main but here it is entree. Not always true either
>> as trendy places now use the word "mains".
>
> Then you dine at a trailor trash joint... mains are sewer pipes.
>
"Mains" can also refer to water mains, gas mains, even electric mains.