1880s Food

I'll take the 3 crullers for $0.05.

Hangtown fry still exists!

It was all the rage in Victorian California.

Remember when absinthe was the hot drink in all of the bars?

SO much more authentic than Panda Express.

Was the "reading room" the pre-cursor to today's bathhouse?

yes R4. The Panda wasn't the fake shit like it is now a days.

Great food. Even greater sex. You all missed out!

With today's obesity problem, we need to bring back this miracle cure for corpulence.

R9, that should be the Official Medicinal Remedy of Datalounge.

Do any eldergays remember being given paregoric when they were young? I do!

Egg powder was hugely popular back then. But those desserts look terrible.

Waitress I’ll have 3 eggs!

1880s food? Don't think the eldergays are actually that old...

^Are you sure, Rose?

Those darn pigs feet give me toothache but then I visit the drugstore and all is well!

I INSIST on Freeman’s, sir!

Lloyd’s Cocaine Toothache Drops

You Know It’s Safe Because There’re Kids On The Label!

Those Germans are shifty, but I must admit their lager beer and stinky cheese goes well with my beloved eel pie. Next I'm going to sink my teeth into one of their giant bratwursts.

If you've ever read a cookbook from the period, it's striking how uninteresting the desserts of the period were. Sure, they looked nice, but they were all bland variations on fruit, butter, eggs, nuts, and cream - no chocolate or spices, nothing intense.

And the vegetables were all supposed to be cooked for 30 minutes to an hour, it's a wonder there was any nutrition left in the damn things.

What do you have against blancmange, r20?

Wow, if you order everything on the menu it comes to a dollar. Damn

Raw fruits and vegetables were considered unsafe to eat. What people didn't know is that it was actually contamination from filthy water and unwashed hands that caused the illness.

Ewww ... olds

As with most things, the popularity of certain types of foods was largely dictated by economics. Remember that there was no refrigeration, air transportation, etc. Things that were not locally grown could be prohibitively expensive, especially if they were perishable.

Zachary Taylor died from eating raw cherries and milk.

lol.

Did the cocaine in the soda give them a jolt?

My grandparents ate Limburger cheese and that was in the 80s. Stinks but tastes great.

You got Sassafras in my Clabber!

I think I'll splurge and have 20 cents worth of oysters my good man.