Repost from last year
The prices have not been adjusted for inflation. Give thanks to Woodrow Wilson and the Congress scumbags who created the Federal Reserve and have inflated away 96% of the dollar’s purchasing power.
THANKSGIVING PRE-1913
Repost from last year
The prices have not been adjusted for inflation. Give thanks to Woodrow Wilson and the Congress scumbags who created the Federal Reserve and have inflated away 96% of the dollar’s purchasing power.
No need to change the menu. Just change it from cents to dollars for today’s prices and call it even… Chip
First 50 years, not so bad. Last 50, insane. I remember coffee at 10c per cup, Coke for 5c and D cell batteries for 15c each. Mid 1950’s.
The meals sound quite tasty, remember that said menus were written pre-processed foods, pre-GMO and other assorted adulterations. As to inflation, I decided to clean the top shelves of the kitchen cupboards and came across some tinned teas. Forgot I had them and they’d been in the cupboard since I moved here, four years ago. One box said $2.50 for the price and, being curious, I checked to see what the current price for the same tea was….try $5.50. Hmmmm.
Red squirrel pot pie and braised opossum were options in St Paul.
My first instinct is yuck. On second thought that’s probably what we will be eating sometime in the near future.
I was told by a local that he would eat nothing but raccoon if he could.
Of course, you need to consider the average income in this county is $18K and change.
One year when hunting deer we got to talking about eating squirrel. My uncle says they used to trap and eat squirrel on the farm back in the day. Few weeks later at Thanksgiving he cooks up some red squirrel for us to try. A little tough but decent eating.
Gotta get them young… Haha… we occasionally ate squirrel, but preferred rabbit, if there was a choice.
Sometimes, not.
Actually turkey has gotten cheaper over the years. It became a holiday feast favorite because it was a rare treat for most.
That said those railroad menu’s are impressive. Amtrak offers two or three entres and the savages in their kitchens couldn’t even read the menu from early 20th century dining cars much less prepare it.
This is the way that the gov. constantly and consistently steals the value of work from the producers over a lifetime..It is almost impossible to save and invest in a way that will just keep the fruits of labor even or growing in absolute terms over a working life..The money is the biggest lie of all..And most people don’t notice day by day until they are 68 and eating cold catfood out of a can and still voting for the deamon-rats…God, give me strength!
To be fair, Wilson and the worthless criminals in Congress only APPROVED the structure that had previous been created by the likes of Morgan, Rockefeller, and the other criminal banksters in the cartel.
Rent for my first house in 1969….17.50
That’s what it must feel like to be a billionaire today.
Happy Thanksgiving to all our jive turkeys!
The problem is “What Ever Happened to Penny Candy?”.