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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMenu for lunch served on The Titanic on the day it sank sells at auction for $88K
The Titanics last lunch menu, saved by first-class passenger Abraham Lincoln Salomon, has been sold at auction for $88,000.
The menu features light items like consommé and dumplings, and heartier offerings from the grill like grilled mutton chops and the guests choice of mashed, fried, or baked potatoes. Finally, there are the buffet options smoked sardines, potted roast beef, veal and ham pie, or corned ox tongue and finally, an assortment of cheese Cheshire, Roquefort, Cheddar, and Camembert, to name a few.
To wash it all down, lunch also included an iced draught Munich lager beer, for $3 or $6, depending on size preference.
The menu was sold by online auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs, along with two other artifacts from the Titanics Lifeboat 1.
http://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/what-did-passengers-titanic-eat-day-it-sank
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Menu for lunch served on The Titanic on the day it sank sells at auction for $88K (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Oct 2015
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Human101948
(3,457 posts)1. Oh, that's definitely worth it!
if I had known I would have bid $100,000!
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)2. Sounds absolutely delicious. Those passengers ate very well.
Even the third class menu was not too bad at all:
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)3. The price of beer sure was high back then
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. Three bucks for a beer? In 1912?!
And why would a British steamship line price stuff in dollars?
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)6. Wasn't Bud (nt)
KansDem
(28,498 posts)7. $3 in 1913 would be worth $72.22 today!
http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
The $6 draught would be $144.43!
I take it this is the kind of stuff you don't chug-a-lug...
The $6 draught would be $144.43!
I take it this is the kind of stuff you don't chug-a-lug...
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)5. The beer was 3d and 6d on the menu,
which is three pence and sixpence respectively. Doing a little bit of work with a currency calculator, and converting pounds to dollars, 3d in 1912 would buy about what $1.75 would today. That's reasonable.