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This is a great article but the best part is an off hand link to a book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression [1] which includes c
by akiselev 4y ago
This is a great article but the best part is an off hand link to a book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression [1] which includes choice quotes like
> The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types: Swiss cheese, ham, sardine, liverwurst, egg, corned beef, roast beef, and tongue (yes). But by 1926, he “claimed that he had counted 946 different sandwich varieties stuffed with fillings such as watermelon and pimento, peanut butter, fried oyster, Bermuda onion and parsley, fruit salad, aspic of foie gras, spaghetti, red snapper roe, salmi of duck, bacon and fried egg, lettuce and tomato, spiced beef, chow-chow, pickled herring, asparagus tips, deep sea scallops, and so on ad infinitum.”
I ordered it off Amazon right away only to immediately realize, to my horror, that the hardcover version I had chosen would not arrive until Saturday, a full fortnite after my aspic of foie gras, salmi of duck, and the $5 esp32-wroom dev kits that were part of the same order.
What is this, the 1930s? Civilization is seriously going down the drain.
[1] https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/04/04/book-review-a-square-meal-part-i-foods-of-the-20s-and-30s/ https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/04/04/book-review-a-squar...
- eesmith 4y ago> The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types This is 2022 - you can get old cookbooks from archive.org and check if Nathan was right. He wasn't. For example, "The up-to-date sandwich book : 400 ways to make a sandwich", by Eva Greene Fuller. Published in Chicago in 1909. https://archive.org/details/uptodatesandwich00full/page/n7/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/uptodatesandwich00full/page/n7/m... Or, a generation earlier in 1884, the book "Salads and Sauces" by Thomas Jefferson Murrey (New York) has a chapter on sandwiches. https://archive.org/details/saladsandsauces00murrgoog/page/n281/mode/2up?q=sandwich https://archive.org/details/saladsandsauces00murrgoog/page/n... including "Apple Sandwich", "Anchovy Sandwich", "Beef, Raw, Sandwich", "Brie Sandwich", "Caviare Sandwich", "Clam Sandwich", "Curry Sandwich", "Dandelion Sandwich", "Duck Sandwich", and so on for several more pages, ending with "Welsh Sandwich". Look under "Goose Liver" for the foie gras entry. I hope I helped save your meal!
- b112 4y agoI think it is a joke on the "there are only 5 story types" blather you hear, every so often.
- brudgers 4y agoYes, there are only two story types. + Someone goes on a journey. + A stranger comes to town.
- effingwewt 4y agoThat's just one story from two perspectives though?
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoThis is only true if you define journey as basically doing anything interesting. But then you are just saying that the only story type is “someone does something”.
- pessimizer 4y agoThere's only one story type. Somebody runs into a problem and tries to solve it, but fails at the halfway mark because they didn't understand the problem well enough. They rethink the problem and try to solve it again, but fail at the 3/4 mark because they don't understand themselves. Then they defeat the problem by gaining understanding of themselves (or fail to defeat the problem because of a willful refusal to change, or have a partial/late revelation and a partial/late success.) Problem > failure of vision > failure of character > solution. Stories are attached to particular protagonists, but you can do things like overlap the stories of multiple protagonists or give a single protagonist multiple overlapping stories in order to develop narratives of arbitrary complexity.
- MrsPeaches 4y ago> foie gras, salmi of duck, and the $5 esp32-wroom dev kits Never been a fan of chips in my sandwich, but each to their own I suppose.
- jonhohle 4y agoBut that satisfying crunch and galvanic shock of grounded fillings!
- mywittyname 4y agoFull of minerals too!
- selimthegrim 4y agoMust be the limited edition dill flavored Beagle Board I missed out on
- MrDresden 4y agoLove tongue. Cook it occasionally and eat with horseradish mayonnaise
- teachrdan 4y agoI was reading "Ramona Quimby, Age 8" to my kid and saw a reference to the Quimby family eating tongue as a cheap meat, due to budget cutbacks from Mr. Quimby going back to school to become a teacher. Ramona did not care for tongue if I recall correctly.
- jakzurr 4y agoMy father made a wonderful tongue & beans soup; must have been 45 years ago. Little brother and friend come home, I tell them, "You've got to try Dad's soup!" They both raved about it, until I mentioned the meat was cow tongue. Years later I was still catching flack about that little incident. But he'd grown up on a farm and meat was meat; I thought it tasted great.
- ljf 4y agoRight until the 90s in the UK you could get ox tongue in the deli of nearly all major supermarkets here (nicely sliced) - I loved it long before I realised what it was. I grew up on a very small farm, but I'm sure many non farm folk were eating it back then too.
- groffee 4y agoWhy do we balk at tongue (and brains, eyes, squishy bits etc) but not actual cuts? Food is food.
- samatman 4y agoI don't balk at tongue (last ate it grilled at table) but you won't catch me eating brain. I have a deep horror of prion disease that precludes developing an appetite for nerve tissue.
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- robbintt 4y agoWhere is that dev kit $5? I think I paid $50?
- ljf 4y agoEven less on Aliexpress if you can handle the wait.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago> $5 esp32-wroom dev kits That's an awesome price!
- m463 4y ago> writer George Jean Nathan claimed ... before 1920s ... eight basic sandwich types ... by 1926, he claimed that he had counted 946... Can't help but think people wrote to tell him he was wrong.
- corobo 4y agoCunningham's Law before scale
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoSorry, you’re making an aspic of foie and canard? Is it…good?