Above is the menu for the 1899 Thanksgiving dinner on the Plaza Resort in New York. In the event you have been a turkey, it was comparatively simple. However what about geese? There aren’t that many. Mallard and crimson duck are on the menu. There are additionally wooden geese, Lengthy Island ducklings, teal and canvasback geese. Geese in New York was not a very good place.
And oh, that worth! Not one of the gadgets price quite a lot of {dollars}. However let’s take inflation into consideration. In 2021, one Redditor stated, “I discovered a calculator and located that $0.30 in 1899 is equal to $10.00 immediately. Fried oyster crabs would now be $24.99, Philadelphia rooster can be $66.65. So the most affordable factor on the menu can be candy buttermilk, $0.10, which might now be $3.33.”
Pricey US readers, take pleasure in your trip tomorrow…
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