Passenger Trains > Royal Blue Line B&O Dining Car Menu Turkey Day 1900

Historian Michael Beschloss posted this 1900 Thanksgiving Day menu for B&O's Royal Blue Line!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/23/22 17:00 by Bondibluey.

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Very impressive.  Thank you for posting.  

                                   

Running it through an inflation calculator that would be $34 today.

 

Todd Clark
Canyon Country, CA
Trainorders.com

Thanks for sharing this. Amazing! Don't know what half that food is, but sure seems fancy.🦃

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I once knew someone who wouldn't eat anything he couldn't pronounce!
Knew someone else who, when treated to dinner by a traveling salesman, would order the most expensive entree on the menu - whether he could pronounce it or not.
jb

Even in the early 50's it was said that some of the best restaurants in New York were on wheels.  It was a different age and a different clientele.
Gordon

Looked up the "Diamond Back Terrapin" A La Maryland....turtle meat!

 

"You can't spell it, but it eats good, don't it?"
/Ted

From a friend of mine:  Anybody know what Lynnhaven Bays were?  I'm guessing oysters.  Lynnhaven Bay Inlet is in Virginia, near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

B&OBill

Correct, they are oysters.  Not just any oyster though. At that time were considered some of the, if not the, finest avaiable in the east.
The Lynnhaven beds are making a comeback and are providing some excellent treats.

Happy Thanksgiving All,
Cliff



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First and foremost this is a day for giving thanks to our first and greatest President, author of the Declaration of Independence, inventor of electricity, and host of the first Thanksgiving, President Benjamin Franklin. 

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Sorry, but as important a historical figure as Benjamin Franklin was, he was never a President of the United States of America. 

GettingShort Wrote:
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 inventor of electricity

Hmmm, and here I thought all this time God had something to do with inventing it...

JG

OnTime Wrote:
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> Sorry, but as important a historical figure as
> Benjamin Franklin was, he was never a President of
> the United States of America. 

Ahh a Franklin denier, who is on the greatest and highest American paper currencey all of wich have pictures of expresidents, the $100 bill. Now tell me he isn't our greatest president. 

I bet you're "that guy" who also denies that Gerald Ford isn't our greatest living President who invented the automibile.

GettingShort for the win!

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