46 years ago today. A menu series from a crossing of the Atlantic aboard the SS United States. Day 3

[A HERETIC I AM]

Day three, the first full day at sea. By sun up we would have been some 400 miles West of Southampton and 160 or so South of the Southern tip of Ireland. This is the first day I have the Breakfast menu for.

Breakfast menu, Saturday, September 16, 1967
(The Breakfast menus were simply cards, printed on the front and blank on the back)


Lunch Menu, Saturday, September 16, 1967

Front cover, The Capitol at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.


Back cover, text & map describing the front cover.


Inside front, Dining recommendations.


Main menu.


Dinner Menu, Saturday, September 16, 1967

Front Cover, Statue of Liberty, New York.


Back Cover, text & map describing the front cover.


Inside front, Dining recommendations.


Main Menu.



Before I started this series I never really noticed or paid much attention to the cryptic little letters/code at the bottom left of the main menu page of each one.

I'm pretty sure it is

WB = West Bound
FCB or FCL or FCD = First Class Breakfast, Luncheon or Dinner)
But the number has me thrown. The first two days I've posted already correspond with the day of the voyage, as does the dinner menu pictured herein (WB-FCD-3 = I figured means "West Bound, First Class Dinner, Day 3" ), but the number on the breakfast and lunch menus is '5'. I thought it might be seating number, but I KNOW there weren't 5 lunch seating's. If you weren't done by 2ish, you weren't getting fed till dinner. So I have yet to figure that one out.

[Suich]

1. Look at the cereals on the breakfast menu!

I had no idea some of them have been around that long!

Does it mean "table #5?"

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. I suppose it could have been table number

but it seems kind of silly to print the menus with the table number on them, particularly if the menus are all the same.


One assumes all of them would have been the same.

[pscot]

3. Great post

I share your interest in these kinds of historical artifact that give some sense of how people lived back in the day.

[The empressof all]

4. Anyone know what an Emma Salad is?

I googled around a bit and couldn't come up with a definitive answer.

Gosh....I would gain 50 gazillion pounds on one of these trips...No matter how many times I walked the deck between feedings.

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. I have no idea either. I'll have to ask my mom if she knows. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Hold the yellow corn-meal mush! And the ox tongue!

Despite some really questionable-sounding items on those menus, there's plenty of good stuff. Like the prime rib.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. Think of the mush as Cream of Wheat!

Just cream of corn!

There are many items that I can't figure out. Some don't turn up any results on a Google Search at all, or if they do, don't give enough info.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. I don't like that either. Too much like baby food, which I refused to eat.

Give me the eggs and bacon, English muffin with cherry jam.

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. LOL! Well, as I said in the thread from back in February....

I had Fruit Loops just about every morning!

Again, I look at that menu and think "what a dopey kid!"

All that and I ordered frickin Fruit Loops?

LOL

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Fruit Loops may have seemed exotic to you after living in Greece.

They had them on the menu for a reason.

[A HERETIC I AM]

16. HA HA HA! Yes, they did!

They had them on the menu to cater to dopey kids like me!

So...here would have been my choices from that breakfast if I was on board today;

(Some or all of this)
Strawberries with Cream
Orange Juice
Baked Codfish Cake, Tomato Sauce
Spanish Omelet
Hashbrowns
White rolls, Blackberry Jam
American Coffee

[Texasgal]

6. How cool!!!

I love seeing the options from back then!

Sanka coffee!

[cbayer]

7. Breakfast looks horrible to me, but I'm not a big breakfast eater anyway.

Lunch and dinner has enough variety to make anyone happy, I would think.

Did people dress for meals? Were there assigned tables?

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. Definitely dressed for dinner.

Suits and ties for the men, dresses/skirts for the ladies. Breakfast and lunch would be casual, but nice. Of course, in those days in that setting, you wouldn't see anyone in the dining rooms in shorts, a T-shirt and flip-flops.

It seems to me we sat at the same table every night, but whether or not it was assigned to us, I don't remember. We very rarely ate with our parents. I have two older brothers and an older sister and we ate together for every meal. Mom and dad had a later seating for both lunch and dinner.

[cbayer]

9. That's nice that the kids got to eat separately.

Probably made you feel more adult and gave your parents a chance to share their meal together.

What fun!

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. I'm sure it wasn't the case with every family.....

but I was 8 at the time and the youngest, so it wasn't like we had a toddler with us. I'm sure parents with younger children ate together.

It was a very fun experience that I remember very clearly!

[Dennis Donovan]

17. I missed these from the first time around!

They deserve to be seen again! Kick!!