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Yeah weird the egg based dishes consistently seem to outprice steak: 1860 The Globe, Salt Lake City: Porter House Steak (25¢), Ham & Eggs (37½¢), Bowl of Oyste
by dmarchand90 5y ago
Yeah weird the egg based dishes consistently seem to outprice steak:
1860 The Globe, Salt Lake City: Porter House Steak (25¢), Ham & Eggs (37½¢), Bowl of Oyster Soup (1.00).
1865 The Pioneer Restaurant, Portland OR: Porter House Steak (20¢), Sirloin Steak (15¢), Ham & Eggs (25¢), Apple, Prune, or Pear Sauce (5¢), Cranberry, Apple, or Custard Pie (5¢).
- prawn 5y agoI wonder if it predated industrial-scale egg farming?
- jareklupinski 5y agocame here to ask this: how was steak less expensive than ham'n eggs?
- inglor_cz 5y agoAmerican West was very good for raising enormous herds of cattle. Cowboys are literally boys who take care of cows.
- Broken_Hippo 5y agoEggs were a only made in spring and summer
- canadianfella 5y agoHam and Eggs. Not “Eggs and Ham”.
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- Broken_Hippo 5y agoPrior to electricity and lighting, eggs weren't available the same way all the year. Primarily, they were a spring and summer item. This is one of the reasons cakes are special occasion (eggs and work, really) and the reason for eggs for easter and spring celebrations.
- tomjen3 5y agoYou get free grass to feed your cattle, the railroad to transport it and there are a lot of steak on a cow. Meanwhile you don't have an industrial production of eggs, so you get at best one egg every day per chicken, more likely one or two every three days. That is of course if you assume it is egg season. A chicken in every pot was a slogan for Johnsons great society, because chicken was a luxury. It would have stayed that way, but then capitalism happened.