Based on the texts, both Marsh and Reyes would most likely agree with which statement?

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Text 1
Restaurant critic Lena Marsh argues that the tasting menu has become an endurance test. Twenty courses over four hours, she writes, leave diners too exhausted to taste the last ten.

Text 2
Chef Tomas Reyes defends the tasting menu as the form in which a kitchen shows its full range. He admits, though, that 'past a dozen courses even the kitchen loses the thread' and that his own menu has been trimmed to ten.

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A. Very long tasting menus have real drawbacks.. Marsh says twenty courses exhaust diners; Reyes says past a dozen 'even the kitchen loses the thread' and cut his own to ten. Both see a problem with very long menus.

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B. Tasting menus should be abandoned in favour of shorter formats. — Reyes defends the tasting menu as a form; he wants it shorter, not abandoned.

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C. Diners generally prefer a short meal to a long one. — Neither text reports what diners prefer in general; Marsh describes exhaustion at twenty courses only.

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D. Ambition in a restaurant kitchen is misplaced. — Reyes praises the form for showing a kitchen's range, and Marsh doesn't attack ambition — only length.

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Answer: A. Very long tasting menus have real drawbacks.

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