Not from Shirley May’s. It’s from a used-book store find:
[Linotype Keyboard Operation (Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1930). Click for a larger view.]
Friday, March 24, 2017
“Short Order Menus”
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I learned this meaning of "leaders" in 1983 when learning to use a Compugraphic EditWriter. Back when I used to RTFM.
1983: that feels like pre-everything now, doesn’t it?
I hope those prices are in cents.
Ha! I didn’t realize how much this menu, without ¢, resembles menus without $.
Curried chicken wings with rice seems pretty exotic. Cold cuts with potato salad seems awfully spendy.
I’m pretty sure that chicken curry was a pretty standard “ladies’” lunch option. It must have had only a slight resemblance to serious curry. The cold cuts must have had serious meat content to merit that price. Oh for a time machine.
But chicken wings! Almost like the precursor to Buffalo wings. :)
Here is a “business men’s luncheon” menu from 1910 with curried chicken wings. Among the other dishes: “Individual Pork and Beans.”
And everything is free!
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