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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.
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:15:01 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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.
To: SkyDancer
To: fidelis
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:18:07 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
To: captain_dave
‘Kay - then shilling it is, 1/20th of a Pound.
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:18:54 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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.
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:19:31 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: mylife
Tuppen is a wanna be detective on the Britbox show Pardners in Crime
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:20:04 PM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
To: SkyDancer
No, there were no dishes for a pound. 1/ = one shilling.
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:21:24 PM PDT
by
dinodino
( )
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.
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:27:08 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: dinodino
Been through that in previous posts.
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:29:49 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
To: Steely Tom
LOL....I was going to post “What a bag of bird feed cost” :-)
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:33:26 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
To: mylife
Chicken cutlets and spaghetti sounds intriguing.
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:34:37 PM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Cecily
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:41:34 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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.
To: Cecily
Chicken cutlets and spaghetti sounds intriguing.
——-
Early Filipino fast-food grub. (They serve spaghetti and chicken at McDonald’s and KFC)
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posted on
05/06/2021 12:55:39 PM PDT
by
Starcitizen
(So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
To: mylife
Lots of apparent French influence on restaurant cooking.
To: attiladhun2
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posted on
05/06/2021 1:04:45 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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.
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posted on
05/06/2021 1:10:10 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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!"
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posted on
05/06/2021 1:11:16 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Larry Lucido
Get a sandwich! stock up buddy boy! this is it!
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posted on
05/06/2021 1:13:51 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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