Cool. I still have one question, though, about huge multi-course meals like that - how did anyone manage to eat that much food? I'm imagining a typical diner getting maybe a cup of soup, then a plate of fish, then a boiled thing - and that'd be my limit right there, even before the roasts and entrees(!). Do I just have a distorted view of what the meal was like? posted by wanderingmind at 3:27 PM on December 17, 2002
Are my eyes deceiving me, or does the menu in the first link list "Antelope, Mountain Style" as an entree? posted by 4easypayments at 4:37 PM on December 17, 2002
The LA database was linked here, in a thread based on the NYPL collection. posted by languagehat at 5:40 PM on December 17, 2002
I don't know, could they possibly eat that much? Maybe they just picked a few things. posted by rhyax at 5:45 PM on December 17, 2002
That does look to be "Antelope, Mountain Style". I wish they'd find a cookbook from then that explained exactly what that meant - Googling doesn't turn up much that's of any use.
And now that I think about it, the huge amounts of food actually seem reasonable if they're being served like a big Thanksgiving feast, where you're not really expected to eat everything, but they just put massive amounts of food out because - well - it's a roadhouse. It's going to have a few dozen hungry road-weary travelers over for dinner. The courses are probably staggered so the chef doesn't die of exhaustion preparing it all at once. posted by wanderingmind at 6:47 PM on December 17, 2002
wanderingmind, I think many of these are menus for banquets, with many choices for each course. posted by argybarg at 10:22 PM on December 17, 2002
posted by wanderingmind at 3:27 PM on December 17, 2002