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My first thought when I read the cheese section was "Not even Wensleydale?". Disappointed Wallace Face
A menu, since there were different menus for different classes. While there are surviving menus for all classes, the third class menus are far fewer, since not very many of those passengers survived.
e: Take particular note of the addendum at the bottom of the third class menu. "Any complaint respecting the Food supplied, want of attention or incivility, should be at once reported to the Purser or Chief Steward. For purposes of identification, each Steward wears a numbered badge on the arm."
While we, looking at this third class menu, would consider it to be lacking, the food served to third class passengers on Titanic was the best third class service on any ship of the time, and White Star was srs bsns about the third class passengers being treated with the same civility as any other passenger.
There's something darkly funny about
GRUEL
Any complaint respecting food supplied...
Oatmeal porridge
Rice Soup
Gruel
Hope you like watery grain…
Amazing, they literally watered down the third class's food. Gotta save the richer meals for the richer passengers.
Though altogether, that's not a bad meal plan. I've seen worse "continental breakfasts" at hotels than that breakfast selection.
That menu looks better to me than the other one. Less... Carnivorous.
OK, I'm vegetarian, but I can't be the only one who saw the other menu and thought people sure ate a LOT of meat on that ship.
I want some cockie leekie 😏
cockie leekie
I had to look it up. from wiki:
Cock-a-leekie soup is a Scottish soup dish consisting of leeks and peppered chicken stock, often thickened with rice, or sometimes barley. The original recipe added prunes during cooking, and traditionalists still garnish with a julienne of prunes
Likewise with Chicken ala Maryland. Heard of Chicken ala King before, hadn't heard of this Maryland one. It sounds... Odd. Chicken in a cream sauce with bananas.
it's a strange menu from our perspective, for sure.
Prunes? Sounds more like assie leekie.
gonna be a farty party
Max Miller of Tasting History has done a bunch of videos on what the pasangers ate on the Titanic if anyone is interested. Great meal time videos to watch. https://youtu.be/7hYBesohRK0
I love his videos. The history portion in the middle is usually entertaining and narrated well enough on its own that you almost forget about the food/recipe content, so it's a nice treat when he switches back to talking about the recipe he's recreated at the end.
Love Max. been watching him since the first time he made Garum in his apartment.
also got his book!
We should go back to selling beer by tankards.
yar. but what are the 3d and 6d in reference to?
ah thank you
Damn, I'm trying to imagine being a poor, uneducated person in an area where that's the money system. They probably got screwed over all the time because of its complication.
If you don't know basic arithmetic and you rarely see higher-value money, it wouldn't be hard to get swindled. All it would take is somebody convincingly claiming that the value of whatever coins you're giving them is ≥ the value of the coins/cash they're giving you.
Hell, people still do that today. (cough Trump coin cough)
Sorry, this didn’t have the symbol, d = old pence
Cockie Leekie 😋
same
Understandable, given the circumstances.
Maybe if they reported the Leekie sooner they would have fixed the Cockie & the ship wouldn't sink.
Chef's own specialty
*sank
But don't worry, this is an example of English grammar changing before our eyes, specifically the collapse of past simple (here, it sank) and past participle (it has sunk). Other examples are rang/rung, sang/sung. Details in John McWhorter's podcast "Lexicon Valley", highly recommended.
Very interesting! Editing it now to correct it as the day it hit the iceberg, because someone else mentioned that it didn't sink until the next day.
If anyone else was curious, Maryland Chicken is pan fried and then finished lid-on, served with a white gravy, sometimes garnished with bananas. Apparently it is actually a Marylander thing.
Garnished with what?
Granted, bananas weren’t always as sweet as they are now, so I could imagine this working really well with plantains.
What is simply "brawn"?
Same Q.
E: I regret asking: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese
I'm not clicking that
Good choice 🤢
C H E E S E.
Beer 3d and 6d a tankard? What does "d" represent here?
It represented pence in the pre-decimal British money system, abbreviated from Latin denarii.
so how would this play out in coin? did they have denarii - er, pennies? shillings?
this shit has confused me for ages.
Someone elsewhere on this page linked this handy chart - old money
Granted, I still find it absurdly confusing. But I feel like the visual helps.
ETA: pence = pennies. I realized the chart doesn't mention that, so I wanted to clarify for those unaware.
that chart is gold. ty
Interesting. Thanks!
Salmon Mayonnaise? I’m revolted from the name alone.
Actually, don't be. It sounds horrible. And I had horrible variants of it.
BUT: It can be an absolutely amazing thing. Something you still mention to people who sat on the same table with you 15 years later. Which it was when I ate it. Since then I tried it multiple times and it was always shit,even in a Michelin star restaurant. We managed to make a decent one ourselves once - but that includes starting a Mayonnaise from scratch which is somewhat tedious.
So.. There is a good chance it was good.
those fish must have been stoked
Technically, it hit the iceberg 1912-04-14, but it didn't sink until after midnight into 1912-04-15.
Well damn - what was the menu on the 15th?
Fresh fish
2nd class? Looks pretty great