More 1937 Coronation menus

Canadian National issued six menus related to the 1937 coronation of King George VI. We saw three yesterday, and here are the other three.

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Inside, all six of these menus are identical, being used on a tour of Scottish Secondary Schools and dated August 8, 1937. This must have been a pretty fancy tour, as the dinner menu offered a five course meal including a fish course as well as a meat course. For the fish course, diners had a choice of cold salmon or fried fillets of haddock.

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The meat course was a choice of chicken a la king, roast ribs of beef, or cold ham and tongue. This came with a choice of boiled or mashed potatoes and carrots or green beans. This was followed by a salad. Finally, dessert was lemon jelly, deep blueberry pie, melon, ice cream with fruit cake, or cheddar cheese with biscuits. The latter may have been confusing as biscuits in Britain means cookies while in Canada it meant crackers.

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The quality and choices available on the menu makes me think that the tour was of secondary school teachers, not students. In any case, I am sure everyone enjoyed this meal and no one was left hungry.


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