Menus Reveal What The Different Passenger Classes Ate On The Titanic

People naturally have a morbid curiosity about the Titanic disaster, wondering about every little detail of that fateful April night in 1912, and slowly but surely virtually every detail has been revealed since.

As you may be aware there were three classes of passengers on board, and each class was treated quite differently during the voyage, but how differently is best illustrated by the three different class menus.

The First Class menu is suitably posh and pretentious, with consomme fermier instead of rice soup, egg a l'argenteuil instead of ham & eggs, and Camembert and Stilton instead of "cheese". 

And then there are the poor Third Class passengers who are stuck eating gruel, "cabin biscuits" (a name that somehow sounds hard and tasteless), and plain old boiled potatoes.

First class or third class, they were all equal in the end...

-Via CountryLiving


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The class menus are all about equally healthy, and all healthier than the typical modern American diet.

Shame what happen'd to Leo DiCap tho...
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You can see these actual menus on display in House on the Rock's "Heritage of the Sea" room (the only with the massive octopus/whale). They're posted on the walls around the perimeter of the room along with lots of other boat paraphernalia.
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Kinda funny how people are looking ( staring ) at the radio as if it was a television. I wonder how many times some one said to get out of the way, like when some one blocks your view of the TV. I can imagine my Dad, who regularly said not to sit so close to the TV because it will damage my eyes ( yes, this was years and years ago ) telling me not to sit so close to the radio for some similar reason.
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Ten years or so ago, I spent nights working by myself in a little room running printers and things for the company I still work for. I had limited radio reception and ended up getting hooked on old radio shows as one of the few stations I could get carried the syndicated "When Radio Was" show that replayed a lot of great stuff from the 40's & 50's. A lot of the comedy was just brilliantly written and hearing some of the old commercials that are included is kind of fascinating. I still listen every weekend.
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It's not on the air any more, but radio theatre isn't entirely dead. The Atlanta Radio Theatre Co. and some others still produce either re-productions of classic shows or original work, presented either live (often at science fiction conventions) or recorded (CD's / MP3's or downloads). And the reason is that radio theatre is still a wonderful medium for sparking the audience's imaginations for nearly no production money.
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