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[Anna N]

2 hours ago, gfweb said:

 

Misspellings may not be typos though.

How do you determine which is which? I would argue that a typo, a typographical error, is any error in typeset material. A typo I would argue is the end result and may be caused by a slip of the fingers or by poor spelling skills.

[gfweb]

12 minutes ago, Anna N said:

How do you determine which is which? I would argue that a typo, a typographical error, is any error in typeset material. A typo I would argue is the end result and may be caused by a slip of the fingers or by poor spelling skills.

I'd say bad spelling is not a typographical error.

So Holliday is bad spelling....oystern is probably a typo (or a weird plural) etc.

[blue_dolphin]

Spotted on Twitter today.  An amazingly extensive Thanksgiving menu from the Plaza Hotel, 1899:

[Anna N]

Wow. Can you imagine typing it never mind cooking it?  

[kayb]

I'm wondering what the difference is in between Maryland, Philadelphia and Plaza style terrapin.

 

[rotuts]

I can guess what a HotHouse tomato is

 

but not HotHouse chicken 

 

3 styles.

 

immagine having that many dishes

 

in the kitchen

[blue_dolphin]

1 hour ago, kayb said:

I'm wondering what the difference is in between Maryland, Philadelphia and Plaza style terrapin.

 

About fifty cents?

 

OK, I was kidding.  But here's a small hint as to the difference between Maryland & Philadelphia styles. From the article, Fear the Turtle or Eat the Turtle:

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The food historian Evan Jones recorded in his book American Food (1990) that a competition was held in 1893 between Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Club and the Baltimore Maryland Club to see whose terrapin recipe was better. The Philadelphians used a “cream sauce that was blended with a turtle sauce before the meat was added,” and the Marylanders used a “clear soup laced with butter and sherry and dominated by the pickled turtle meat untainted by herbs or cream.” (Well, of course, Maryland won. )

 

Edited November 26, 2021 by blue_dolphin (log)

[gfweb]

6 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

About fifty cents?

 

OK, I was kidding.  But here's a small hint as to the difference between Maryland & Philadelphia styles. From the article, Fear the Turtle or Eat the Turtle:

 

 

How far Maryland cuisine has fallen since. Crab cakes and Old Bay. 😒

[gfweb]

This is such a @David Ross topic.

Edited November 26, 2021 by gfweb (log)

[Kim Shook]

On 11/26/2021 at 9:08 AM, rotuts said:

immagine having that many dishes

 

in the kitchen

And no microwave!

[liuzhou]

via Twitter

 

[Anna N]

Well the price is right. Not a great deal on there that makes my mouth water but I do wonder about raisin coffee. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

55 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Well the price is right. Not a great deal on there that makes my mouth water but I do wonder about raisin coffee. 

 

Quite a bit on there makes my mouth water.  Then again when I was going through financial difficulties a few years back I dined at the soup kitchen, which made those fancy restaurant prices seem excessive.  Good it was too.

 

[liuzhou]

56 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Well the price is right. Not a great deal on there that makes my mouth water but I do wonder about raisin coffee. 

 

Agreed, but I guess that during the Depression, 'mouthwatering' was a rare luxury for many people. Basic sustenance would have been more important.

[weinoo]

 

During the Great Depression, ‘Penny Restaurants’ Fed the Unemployed

[rotuts]

wonder what the 10 cent table d'Hote was.

[Anna N]

12 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

Quite a bit on there makes my mouth water.  Then again when I was going through financial difficulties a few years back I dined at the soup kitchen, which made those fancy restaurant prices seem excessive.  Good it was too.

 

No doubt that hunger is the best appetite stimulant. I’m not a stranger to hunger (perhaps you can surmise from this the likely cause of my often stated objection to anything that resembles a pulse) , nevertheless, I would have to be pretty close to desperation to find that any of these offerings actually made my mouth water these days. I am not being insensitive to those who had to get through the depression (and those who still face hunger every day).   I am just stating a fact about my own reactions. 

 

 

 

[Katie Meadow]

13 hours ago, Anna N said:

Well the price is right. Not a great deal on there that makes my mouth water but I do wonder about raisin coffee. 

For every raisin you find in your coffee they pay you 1cent.

[rotuts]

for me ,  I wonder what the food tasted like :

 

Navy Bean Soup    --- probably no bacon 

 

Creamed Cod Fish on Toast

 

Cabbage and Carrot Salad

 

Rice and Raisin Pudding   ( splurging a bit )

 

and yes , I have to try the Rain Coffee.

 

Six Cents .

[BetD]

Well… raisin coffee sent me down the rabbit hole, to no avail. I wonder if it was just water which had raisins boiled in it to extract the sweetness.