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Liverpool cafe finds menu from 1913 during refurb
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Posted on 05/06/2021 10:54:44 AM PDT by mylife

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To: fidelis
They printed a new dated menu every day?

Perhaps they rotated menu items by days of the week, and had the menus printed up in advance.

61 posted on 05/06/2021 12:15:01 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: mylife

Looking at the Irish Stew, priced at 1 shilling (in decimal money: 5 pence), implies a price inflation of about 100 to 120 times since 1913.


62 posted on 05/06/2021 12:15:48 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: SkyDancer

“/” denotes a shilling.


63 posted on 05/06/2021 12:17:56 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: fidelis

Food, not menus.


64 posted on 05/06/2021 12:18:07 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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To: captain_dave

‘Kay - then shilling it is, 1/20th of a Pound.


65 posted on 05/06/2021 12:18:54 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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To: captain_dave
There are 12 troy ounces to a troy pound. The troy pound is about the same as a pound avoirdupois, which makes a troy ounce greater than an ounce avoirdupois.

Wow, so a dollar was really quite a lot of money once.

I recall that a Model 'T' Ford was something like $850, which would have been 42.5 ounces of gold? Wow. It's more than $1800/oz right now. I thought Henry Ford's idea was to price the car low enough so that one of his workers could afford one.

The Model 'T' came out in 1914, well before FDR.

66 posted on 05/06/2021 12:19:31 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: mylife

Tuppen is a wanna be detective on the Britbox show Pardners in Crime


67 posted on 05/06/2021 12:20:04 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: SkyDancer

No, there were no dishes for a pound. 1/ = one shilling.


68 posted on 05/06/2021 12:21:24 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: dinodino
No, there were no dishes for a pound. 1/ = one shilling.

There were very eligible young people in Jane Austin's novels that were "getting twelve hundred a year." Now that number makes a lot more sense.

69 posted on 05/06/2021 12:27:08 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: dinodino

Been through that in previous posts.


70 posted on 05/06/2021 12:29:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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To: Steely Tom

LOL....I was going to post “What a bag of bird feed cost” :-)


71 posted on 05/06/2021 12:33:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: mylife

Chicken cutlets and spaghetti sounds intriguing.


72 posted on 05/06/2021 12:34:37 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

chicken parmesan


73 posted on 05/06/2021 12:41:34 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Steely Tom

Bread had to have been cheaper than 9 cents in 1913. I remember buying a loaf of wonder bread for a dime in the 1950s.


74 posted on 05/06/2021 12:50:54 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: Cecily

Chicken cutlets and spaghetti sounds intriguing.
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Early Filipino fast-food grub. (They serve spaghetti and chicken at McDonald’s and KFC)


75 posted on 05/06/2021 12:55:39 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: mylife

Lots of apparent French influence on restaurant cooking.


76 posted on 05/06/2021 1:03:41 PM PDT by viewfromthefrontier
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To: attiladhun2

Is Wonder bread?


77 posted on 05/06/2021 1:04:45 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: attiladhun2
Bread had to have been cheaper than 9 cents in 1913. I remember buying a loaf of wonder bread for a dime in the 1950s.

I had doubts about that too, but I looked up "price of a loaf of bread in 1910" and Google said it was 7 cents, which I figured was close enough.

Wasn't the whole point of Wonder Bread that it was made super cheap by injecting air into it instead of making it rise with yeast, or some such thing? The bread in 1913 would have been actual bread, presumably.

78 posted on 05/06/2021 1:10:10 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: mylife; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
They also found a color photo from the era.

Caption: "Consomme isn't a meal! You said you'd buy me a meal, Jerry!"


79 posted on 05/06/2021 1:11:16 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Get a sandwich! stock up buddy boy! this is it!


80 posted on 05/06/2021 1:13:51 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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