The back of this 1966 menu has on-board photos of CN trains captioned “traveliving,” a portmanteau that is translated into French as “l’art de voyager,” or the art of travel. I guess French doesn’t lend itself to portmanteaus (itself a French word which translates as “coat hanger”) as well as English.
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This dinner menu offers “combination selections,” which is an unintentional pun (word combinations, food combinations, get it?). The selections include salmon with hollandaise sauce (yum!) for $1.75 and a grilled beef pattie with smothered onions (boring) for $2.00. Roast beef with au jus is $2.75 and a hot chicken sandwich is $2.00. Multiply prices by six to approximate today’s U.S. dollars.
These sound more like buffet car items than a dining car, but perhaps that was what CN diners were reduced to in 1966. Today, overfishing and other problems have made salmon rare enough to be almost a delicacy, but in 1966 it was the least expensive item on the menu.