This 1925 breakfast menu has an image of caribou, also known as reindeer, on the cover. There isn’t any reason given for it; the back cover has an article about the improvement in freight train productivity, and none of the meats on the menu are caribou.
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The explanation may be found in a little booklet the Great Northern issued at about the same time with nearly the same cover. Domestic reindeer meat imported from Alaska, the railway hoped, would become the latest fad, and it promised to include reindeer on some of its menus (but didn’t on the breakfast menu above). Continue reading