Scout Lunch Menu

Here’s a lunch menu from the same era as yesterday’s breakfast menu, offering full lunches for just 30 cents (about $5.50 today). At that price, entrées were limited to Irish lamb stew with fresh vegetables or assorted cold meats with potato salad. Even though the former came with vegetables and the latter with potato salad, both also came with hash-browned potatoes and lima beans. The meals were rounded out with bread, fruit pudding, and a beverage.

Click image to download a 754-KB PDF of this menu (including both the a la carte card shown here and the attached flyer).

Individually priced, these items could cost well over $1 (multiply prices by 18 to get today’s dollars). However, patrons willing to spend a little more money could get a wide variety of items from the a la carte menu shown above as well as a few more “luncheon suggestions” on the flyer. These included chicken okra soup for 15 cents, honey dew melon or cantaloupe for 15 cents, and a large salad for 25 cents.


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