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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.
« -what kind of lettuce?
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A menu, since there were different menus for different classes. While there are surviving menus for all classes, the third class menus are far fewer, since not very many of those passengers survived.
e: Take particular note of the addendum at the bottom of the third class menu. "Any complaint respecting the Food supplied, want of attention or incivility, should be at once reported to the Purser or Chief Steward. For purposes of identification, each Steward wears a numbered badge on the arm."
While we, looking at this third class menu, would consider it to be lacking, the food served to third class passengers on Titanic was the best third class service on any ship of the time, and White Star was srs bsns about the third class passengers being treated with the same civility as any other passenger.
There's something darkly funny about
GRUEL
Any complaint respecting food supplied...
Oatmeal porridge
Rice Soup
Gruel
Hope you like watery grain…
Amazing, they literally watered down the third class's food. Gotta save the richer meals for the richer passengers.
Though altogether, that's not a bad meal plan. I've seen worse "continental breakfasts" at hotels than that breakfast selection.
That menu looks better to me than the other one. Less... Carnivorous.
OK, I'm vegetarian, but I can't be the only one who saw the other menu and thought people sure ate a LOT of meat on that ship.
What is simply "brawn"?
Cockie Leekie 😋
Understandable, given the circumstances.
My first thought when I read the cheese section was "Not even Wensleydale?". Disappointed Wallace Face
I want some cockie leekie 😏
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.
We should go back to selling beer by tankards.
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.
Salmon Mayonnaise? I’m revolted from the name alone.
Actually, don't be. It sounds horrible. And I had horrible variants of it.
BUT: It can be an absolutely amazing thing. Something you still mention to people who sat on the same table with you 15 years later. Which it was when I ate it. Since then I tried it multiple times and it was always shit,even in a Michelin star restaurant. We managed to make a decent one ourselves once - but that includes starting a Mayonnaise from scratch which is somewhat tedious.
So.. There is a good chance it was good.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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