Cod Fish Flake Breakfast Menu

When I first saw the photo on the cover of this menu, I wondered, “Why is that man trying to ski on the snow-covered roof of that rickety looking barn?” It turned out it wasn’t snow, but cod; it wasn’t a barn, but a fish flake for drying the cod; and he wasn’t trying to ski but laying out the cod for drying. At least I got the rickety part right, though I wonder how he got off the flake when he had surrounded himself with fish.

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This menu came with the Mount Athabaska menu from a couple of days ago and was included with the 1953 letter providing “menu cards” to an Ohio railfan. Although the cover letter is dated February 1953, the menus themselves are probably from 1952; this one has a printer code of “17-11-52” on it. It also is a little more spartan than the Athabaska menu, which includes fresh fish as an entrée, while this one — ironically — does not.


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