Chef’s Suggestion

Slightly smaller than a postcard and printed on similar material, this card must have been placed on dining tables rather than inserted into menus, as inserts tended to be flimsier. The menu offers a meal of roast beef hash, noodles, and peas, which doesn’t really sound like the kind of thing that a real chef would suggest.

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The lower left corner has the numbers “21-22” and “1/65.” The latter indicates the card was used in early 1965 and the former are the numbers of Burlington’s Morning Zephyrs between Chicago and the Twin Cities. In 1965, the Morning Zephyrs left their terminal cities at around 8 am and arrived at their destinations at 2:50 pm, so these cards must have been used for the lunch meal.


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