Max Miller of Tasting History has done a bunch of videos on what the pasangers ate on the Titanic if anyone is interested. Great meal time videos to watch. https://youtu.be/7hYBesohRK0
I love his videos. The history portion in the middle is usually entertaining and narrated well enough on its own that you almost forget about the food/recipe content, so it’s a nice treat when he switches back to talking about the recipe he’s recreated at the end.
Love Max. been watching him since the first time he made Garum in his apartment.
also got his book!
Cockie Leekie 😋
same
*sank
But don’t worry, this is an example of English grammar changing before our eyes, specifically the collapse of past simple (here, it sank) and past participle (it has sunk). Other examples are rang/rung, sang/sung. Details in John McWhorter’s podcast “Lexicon Valley”, highly recommended.
Very interesting! Editing it now to correct it as the day it hit the iceberg, because someone else mentioned that it didn’t sink until the next day.
« -what kind of lettuce?
-Iceberg !!! »If anyone else was curious, Maryland Chicken is pan fried and then finished lid-on, served with a white gravy, sometimes garnished with bananas. Apparently it is actually a Marylander thing.
Garnished with what?
Granted, bananas weren’t always as sweet as they are now, so I could imagine this working really well with plantains.
What is simply “brawn”?
Same Q.
E: I regret asking: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese
I’m not clicking that
Good choice 🤢
Evidently it’s another name for head cheese.
Beer 3d and 6d a tankard? What does “d” represent here?
It represented pence in the pre-decimal British money system, abbreviated from Latin denarii.
so how would this play out in coin? did they have denarii - er, pennies? shillings?
this shit has confused me for ages.
Someone elsewhere on this page linked this handy chart - old money
Granted, I still find it absurdly confusing. But I feel like the visual helps.
ETA: pence = pennies. I realized the chart doesn’t mention that, so I wanted to clarify for those unaware.
that chart is gold. ty
Interesting. Thanks!
We should go back to selling beer by tankards.
yar. but what are the 3d and 6d in reference to?
Damn, I’m trying to imagine being a poor, uneducated person in an area where that’s the money system. They probably got screwed over all the time because of its complication.
If you don’t know basic arithmetic and you rarely see higher-value money, it wouldn’t be hard to get swindled. All it would take is somebody convincingly claiming that the value of whatever coins you’re giving them is ≥ the value of the coins/cash they’re giving you.
Hell, people still do that today. (cough Trump coin cough)
ah thank you
Sorry, this didn’t have the symbol, d = old pence
Salmon Mayonnaise? I’m revolted from the name alone.
2nd class? Looks pretty great
those fish must have been stoked
