Washington Menus

The first Great Northern menu today has a cover that seems to have been custom-designed for one tour, in this case of a trade tour for Spokane merchants. The image on the cover shows an industrialized Spokane Falls; I recently had dinner at a restaurant that had pretty much this view of the falls.

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Inside this 16-page booklet are menus for ten different meals, including every meal from noon September 15 through evening of September 18 except for dinner on September 16, during which the meal was presumably eaten off the train, probably in Minneapolis or St. Paul. Most of the unpriced dinners offer just two entrées, though some lunches offer three and breakfasts four or more.

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Our second menu today offered foods from Washington, including Washington chickens in the chicken pot pie, fish caught off the Washington coast, Washington crabs and Washington oysters. Most of the a la carte items were not promised to be from Washington, but there was a baked Washington apple or a fresh Wenatchee apple for dessert.


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