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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 01:33 PM Oct 2015

Menu for lunch served on The Titanic on the day it sank sells at auction for $88K



The Titanic’s 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 guest’s 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 Titanic’s 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 OP
Oh, that's definitely worth it! Human101948 Oct 2015 #1
Sounds absolutely delicious. Those passengers ate very well. Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #2
The price of beer sure was high back then notadmblnd Oct 2015 #3
Three bucks for a beer? In 1912?! KamaAina Oct 2015 #4
Wasn't Bud (nt) Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #6
$3 in 1913 would be worth $72.22 today! KansDem Oct 2015 #7
The beer was 3d and 6d on the menu, SheilaT Oct 2015 #5

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
2. Sounds absolutely delicious. Those passengers ate very well.
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 01:40 PM
Oct 2015

Even the third class menu was not too bad at all:

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
7. $3 in 1913 would be worth $72.22 today!
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 02:02 PM
Oct 2015
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...
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
5. The beer was 3d and 6d on the menu,
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 02:00 PM
Oct 2015

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.

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