The third class menu, on the other hand, basically serves slop for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Anyone up for some rice soup and boiled potatoes? If you look a

The third class menu, on the other hand, basically serves slop for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Anyone up for some rice soup and boiled potatoes? If you look at the bottom left, you'll see gruel listed. Actual gruel. I'm not sure what they're talking about here aside from dishonest snarkiness. The menu for third class isn't half bad at all, and absolutely far from slop unless breakfast items like fresh bread and butter with marmelade can be called "slop". By the standards of average general diets among those third class passengers, it's downright good. The gruel thing is funny though, but then maybe at the time the word didn't have the same emotional connotations