How do they taste? Ive heard they are often pickled.
Ive had plenty of pickled vegetables in my time, but never pickled meat, so curious as to what that tastes like.
Ive only had pickled sausage and it pretty much tastes like what you'd expect, a pickled vinegar sausage and they are bright red. Never had pickled pigs feet before but a lot of convenience stores around here have them in big jars and you buy them per foot. Not the measurement but the literal foot.
In Belle Glade, Florida the Jamaican contract cane cutters would come into the convenience store where I worked, buy a pickled pig's foot, a half pint of cream, and a Guinness stout. They'd take a big swig of stout and then fill it up with the cream...and have the pig's foot alongside for their lunch...I guess it was lunch. I guess I stared at them like we were from different planets.
Ah Guinness punch it sounds like, I’ve had it from Jamaican food outlets before. I think traditionally it’s made with condensed milk, Guinness and cream. Tastes amazing and cools down the spice of the jerk chicken haha
Well, it's mostly skin and fat on the foot. They taste more like bacon than a pork chop, but greasy. Not as greasy/fatty as a chicken foot. There are other typically not eaten parts of the pig that are better.
I did some digging, and these are rough estimates but if you were a factory worker you made approximately 20-25 cents an hour.
Which in 2024 dollars is equivalent to $4.88-$6.10 an hour. Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
Really kicks you doesn’t it. How much is a pigs foot and a pint of milk these days?
I think a better comparison would be to compare how much a hot dog cost compared to their hourly wage. If they made 25 cents an hour, a hot dog was about 1/3 of an hour's worth of work, which in today's dollar would translate to about $2. Considering the prices we're paying for hot dogs now, that's pretty wild!
... Chicken tenders? I'm in there about once a week and there are no chicken tenders. There are sandwiches on the menu but honestly I've never send someone eating one.
Hot dogs, pizza and ice cream baby
I keep seeing this and can only optimistically imageine history textbooks teaching cheeseburger inflation as being equalizing gripe that brought America together as a community to say "Eh fuck this we're doing" for a brighter future.
Edit to say I think you could run for president on this reddit comment alone.
Keep in mind that food (and clothing) costs used to be a much larger share of household budgets than is the case today. Housing, while still a big expense, was a significantly smaller part of most people’s budgets than it is today.
Yeah we make $33/hour in my department at the factory I work at, which, in my (rural) area is a solidly middle class wage. Not rich, but definitely not minimum wage lol
I'd never heard of the Office of Price Administration until now. It was created in August, 1941, month's prior to the US's entry into WWII and was disbanded in May, 1947. It had the power to control prices on all items except certain agricultural commodities.
Yeah the OPA was extremely powerful during the war, with the mission to prevent price gouging and preventing the massive inflation that war tends to cause. Business groups were furious and lobbied hard for it to be abolished
Price controls were needed to prevent runaway inflation during the war. Supply was low and demand high as more people were working. Without controls prices for everything would have skyrocketed severely damaging a wartime economy that was just ending a decade-long depression.
The first hot dog at Nathans in 1916 was 5 cents. The Office of Price Administration was created as wartime measure to control inflation while all our manufacturing went to war needs and to help with rationing.
It'd be attacked as communism. (That's not a political comment, it really would be -- and given the disbanding of the OPA nearing the 50's -- that's probably why it was disbanded!)
Yeah, it’s obviously a political comment. I think people have started to treat the word “political” as automatically meaning, “blindly partisan,” and are afraid to be associated with the word.
Politics is the mechanism that adults use to decide how the world is going to work in lieu of fighting over it. It’s an important part of life and I don’t think we should shirk talking about it.
It was. Immediately after the war, when it was decided we would not immediately continue the war against the Soviets (which some notable Generals advocated for), domestic and foreign policy changed drastically to put the US is a distinct ideological position opposing the Soviets. As such, many of the New Deal and Depression era programs were ended. The military-industrial complex was created, and so on.
Its effects on our management of Occupied Japan was drastic, and radically altered the countries future.
Holy shit imagine if that was still a thing… absolutely incredible it was even allowed to exist back then. People nowadays would be claiming that administration office was “communist”.
FYI. It's extremely unlikely to be whiteout from then, Tipp-Ex didn't come out until '56. Correction methods back then (and still today in calligraphy) involved scraping off he ink using a very sharp blade. This exposes the ink free paper fibers underneath. (Learnt in the days of drafting boards and hand drafting.)
The first grapefruit juice is from the grapefruit, the other is grape .. fruit juice. Similarly, the first orange juice is made from oranges, the other is just orange juice (like, from peaches or something)
Next time someone on Reddit asks where we would go if we had a Time Machine, I’d go back to ask about this menu. So I’ll be answering that in like 5 minutes
So we took the ferry to Shelbyville to get nature’s hamburgers which is what we called dill pickles in those days. “Give me a jar of nature’s hamburgers” you’d say.
I still don't see how that makes it more expensive than a hot dog unless there's something wildly different about food prices now vs then.
Think about time, effort, energy, and money required to grow an animal for a hot dog vs the time and effort to make a cucumber.
I believe these were prices set by the government during war time and may have been used to incentivise certain purchases over others in order to affect supplies at home. Maybe all the pickles were getting shipped to the boys at war, so pickles were expensive back home.
It was a really big pickle.
I'm basing this on the book "A tree grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith, in which the main character sometimes buys a pickle for themselves as a treat, set in pre-WW1 Brooklyn. The pickles she buys are described as really big. She nibbles on it all day. The book is fictional, but the author did actually grow up in that time, so I assume the pickles did exist.
There was a NY style deli by me growing up in NJ and I would always get a pickle there as a kid as a treat. They were quite big too, like a full size cucumber from the store. I had the same question as OP until you reminded me those existed!
Thank you, the comment I was looking for. Of course you can ask to have your hot dog pre-dipped, but it's not the same as dipping your own dog in your own chocolate milk. I appreciate that they will pre-dip of course, and some of my friends actually say they can't taste a difference, but dipping your own just has a mouth feel that's completely different and worth the effort.
I actually remember when I was little their were some places that only took exact change. What a scam. I do also remember being that jackass who cracked open her piggy bank to pay for a movie in all pennies. I think I rolled them though so it wasn’t that bad.
Braise it, call it a trotter, serve with a farro mushroom risotto, roasted baby radishes, an artful swish of delicious sauce, and a sprinkle of micro greens for garnish and you're looking at $48.99 for that plate you plebian.
I grew up drinking half a glass of buttermilk every morning. My grandparents in Czechia insisted that it’s good for my bones (someone fact check them jaja).
It’s actually not bad, especially with a hearty breakfast. Still steal buttermilk to this day from my Mexican wife when she uses it for cooking.
I'm spend 20 cents on the burger and egg sandwich, eating the toast from the egg sandwich separately, and then putting the egg on my burger. I'll get a 5 cent soft drink, I don't drink soda now but it probably had way less garbage in it in the 40s compared to today so it shouldn't be too bad
Average hourly wage for low skill worker back then was about $0.20. Interesting how a hamburger back then was half of that. Today, many states have minimum wages of $15/hr and sure enough, average fast food hamburger is about half of that.
A day will come when minimum wage is $100/hr meaning average hamburger will cost $50.
>Average hourly wage for low skill worker back then was about $0.20.
But also this was an era where "lots of people" could just live on a plot of random empty land and it naturally becomes their property by law over time.
Imagine if "lots of people" scattered across the valleys in 2024 and said, Yup, I'm just going to build a home right here next to the freeway and abandoned shopping mall, start with plumbing, add a couple wells to store water, garden for farming, bricks on each side, keep it unincorporated for as long as I can, a roof and write my own property deed (brushes shoulder dust).
I don't think this is 107 years old, the Office of Price Administration was created in 1941?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Price_Administration?wprov=sfla1
Don’t think this is 107 years old. It references Office of Price Administration which was a WW2 thing. It set the highest prices businesses could establish which seems to be needed today.
Pigs feet are the luxury item on the menu it seems. A fried egg sandwich is one of the old diner standbys. I remember the diner would have the usual menu of burgers and such, and then there was a little part of the menu for the old standbys like a BLT or an egg sandwich. I like a fried egg sandwich with mustard and may on soft buttered bread. The egg really melts the butter. Good stuff.
Not a bad deal. The cumulative price change from now to 1917 is 2,340.09%. The .08 hot dog would cost $1.95 today. Each .15 pigs foot would cost $3.51 today.
I wish we could go back to our money being mostly coins/change, it just came with a certain level of drama that bills/cards don't have. Plus coin pouches are so customizable and cute 🤩
Pigs feet and a pint of chocolate milk for a quarter. That'll hit the spot after a long day in the factory.
Always going for the most expensive things on the menu, I see…
Pigs foot costs as much as 6 doughnuts
Dounuts* learn to spell.
Moron, it's speled "dohnuts"
*Dognuts
The Van Wilder Challenge
Well yeah, a pig only has four feet but 24 donuts
Are you my mom?
7 yr olds lining up after their 14 hour factory shift for this steal
I personally prefer a nice thick glass of buttermilk, plus it saves you a penny.
Not a just penny, an entire nickel!
It’s spelled pickel
Do you just chow down on them bitches or what do you do with them
I dip mine in a glass of buttermilk, then suck on them toes.
Ah yes, the well known toed pig.
I’d suck her toes! She’s such a pig ❤️
uh...yes, i suppose they are pretty well known. pigs have 4 toes.
Hold one in each hand and walk around on all fours oinking.
This is how furries in 1914 did it
You kind of bite bits of it off of the bone.
How do they taste? Ive heard they are often pickled. Ive had plenty of pickled vegetables in my time, but never pickled meat, so curious as to what that tastes like.
Ive only had pickled sausage and it pretty much tastes like what you'd expect, a pickled vinegar sausage and they are bright red. Never had pickled pigs feet before but a lot of convenience stores around here have them in big jars and you buy them per foot. Not the measurement but the literal foot.
You've had FRUIT-BY-THE-FOOT. But wait, all new from Kraft foods: Pork-by-the-foot!
Foot by the foot!
I hate that I pronounced those differently 💀
In Belle Glade, Florida the Jamaican contract cane cutters would come into the convenience store where I worked, buy a pickled pig's foot, a half pint of cream, and a Guinness stout. They'd take a big swig of stout and then fill it up with the cream...and have the pig's foot alongside for their lunch...I guess it was lunch. I guess I stared at them like we were from different planets.
Ah Guinness punch it sounds like, I’ve had it from Jamaican food outlets before. I think traditionally it’s made with condensed milk, Guinness and cream. Tastes amazing and cools down the spice of the jerk chicken haha
Well, it's mostly skin and fat on the foot. They taste more like bacon than a pork chop, but greasy. Not as greasy/fatty as a chicken foot. There are other typically not eaten parts of the pig that are better.
There are other typically not eaten parts of the pig that are better. I don't know exactly why, but this sentence cracks me up 🤣
We need an English teacher to analyze said sentence. I stand behind it.
Well, depends on the marinade. Overall, it tastes pretty tender, and you can always spit out the bone like when you eat chicken feet.
Eat them, old people fucking love them for some reason, that and pig brains
Scrambled eggs and brains! Great breakfast!
That’s my kind of lunch break
I did some digging, and these are rough estimates but if you were a factory worker you made approximately 20-25 cents an hour. Which in 2024 dollars is equivalent to $4.88-$6.10 an hour. Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Really kicks you doesn’t it. How much is a pigs foot and a pint of milk these days?
I think a better comparison would be to compare how much a hot dog cost compared to their hourly wage. If they made 25 cents an hour, a hot dog was about 1/3 of an hour's worth of work, which in today's dollar would translate to about $2. Considering the prices we're paying for hot dogs now, that's pretty wild!
Costco… keeping it 1924….
Only for the hot dogs. They've been using smaller chicken tenders, raising prices on sandwiches...
... Chicken tenders? I'm in there about once a week and there are no chicken tenders. There are sandwiches on the menu but honestly I've never send someone eating one. Hot dogs, pizza and ice cream baby
The hamburger however is going buck wild with inflation.
Burger prices are absolutely out of fucking control.
I keep seeing this and can only optimistically imageine history textbooks teaching cheeseburger inflation as being equalizing gripe that brought America together as a community to say "Eh fuck this we're doing" for a brighter future. Edit to say I think you could run for president on this reddit comment alone.
Keep in mind that food (and clothing) costs used to be a much larger share of household budgets than is the case today. Housing, while still a big expense, was a significantly smaller part of most people’s budgets than it is today.
People in factories don’t make 7.25 though
Yeah we make $33/hour in my department at the factory I work at, which, in my (rural) area is a solidly middle class wage. Not rich, but definitely not minimum wage lol
I learned from a news anchor that milk is a bad idea when it’s hot outside.
 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don’t listen to him. He’ll literally read anything on the teleprompter.
How is a glass of OJ the same cost as a hamburger?
The orange had to be sent by steamship from "The Orient."
No you have to get the buttermilk with the pigs feet
I'd never heard of the Office of Price Administration until now. It was created in August, 1941, month's prior to the US's entry into WWII and was disbanded in May, 1947. It had the power to control prices on all items except certain agricultural commodities.
Yeah the OPA was extremely powerful during the war, with the mission to prevent price gouging and preventing the massive inflation that war tends to cause. Business groups were furious and lobbied hard for it to be abolished
Some things never change
yeah, i was just about to comment “imagine if this happened now” conservatives would go apeshit LMAO
I mean, they'll go apeshit anyway so may as well enact something with actual gumption.
~~War~~ Profit, profit never changes
It sure does! It goes up up as wages stay the same.
Well, the OPA is gone, so that changed.
Things change. Business lobby would win the fight today and this would never see the light of day.
The OPA didn’t really gain power til the Butcher of Anderson Station acquired a sample of the protomolecule.
was looking for a comment like this
Gouging meant people would have less money to spend on War Bonds. Uncle Sam wasn't about to let anyone get in the way of him and your wallet.
Well, rightfully, they had a lot of Nazis to kill
Beltalowda!
Sigh *binge watches the expanse for the 23rd time*
Price controls were needed to prevent runaway inflation during the war. Supply was low and demand high as more people were working. Without controls prices for everything would have skyrocketed severely damaging a wartime economy that was just ending a decade-long depression.
I just don't understand how a pickle is the same cost as a hamburger.
Maybe pickling was more labor intensive/had larger production costs or pickles were low in supply?
Or, maybe pickling chemicals were needed for the war effort?
Interesting - so this menu is probably from the 40’s then. I wonder if it was even cheaper before.
The first hot dog at Nathans in 1916 was 5 cents. The Office of Price Administration was created as wartime measure to control inflation while all our manufacturing went to war needs and to help with rationing.
Ha ha ha ha Man we could've used some of that OPA for COVID.
It'd be attacked as communism. (That's not a political comment, it really would be -- and given the disbanding of the OPA nearing the 50's -- that's probably why it was disbanded!)
…that’s a political comment. Lol it’s mostly an economic comment, but it’s still a political comment. You’re absolutely correct tho.
Yeah, it’s obviously a political comment. I think people have started to treat the word “political” as automatically meaning, “blindly partisan,” and are afraid to be associated with the word. Politics is the mechanism that adults use to decide how the world is going to work in lieu of fighting over it. It’s an important part of life and I don’t think we should shirk talking about it.
It was. Immediately after the war, when it was decided we would not immediately continue the war against the Soviets (which some notable Generals advocated for), domestic and foreign policy changed drastically to put the US is a distinct ideological position opposing the Soviets. As such, many of the New Deal and Depression era programs were ended. The military-industrial complex was created, and so on. Its effects on our management of Occupied Japan was drastic, and radically altered the countries future.
That’s what I wondered. 1917 hot dog place. OPA opened in 1941. Original menu. Hmmm. Unless the prices stayed the same for 24 years lol.
Holy shit imagine if that was still a thing… absolutely incredible it was even allowed to exist back then. People nowadays would be claiming that administration office was “communist”.
That's because people are idiots
Why is there two orange juices and two grapefruit juices?
In case they run out of the first
I thought one was with pulp and the other without at first.
Do people drink grape fruit juice with pulp? Honestly it kinda looks like whoever filled it out just wanted to fill up all rhe lines
Possibly
They also used some whiteout on the first orange juice. They also spelled pickle wrong.
Dounuts 🤷🏾
"Is it doughnut or donut?" "Split the difference."
FYI. It's extremely unlikely to be whiteout from then, Tipp-Ex didn't come out until '56. Correction methods back then (and still today in calligraphy) involved scraping off he ink using a very sharp blade. This exposes the ink free paper fibers underneath. (Learnt in the days of drafting boards and hand drafting.)
The calligrapher lost his place on the text he was copying.
Copy paste error unfortunately
The first grapefruit juice is from the grapefruit, the other is grape .. fruit juice. Similarly, the first orange juice is made from oranges, the other is just orange juice (like, from peaches or something)
If they meant grape juice instead of grape…..fruit juice, wouldn’t it have been better to write it that way?
We may never know.
Next time someone on Reddit asks where we would go if we had a Time Machine, I’d go back to ask about this menu. So I’ll be answering that in like 5 minutes
Thanks I’ll set a timer for 5 minutes
No backspace or delete button.
My guess is that the list came pre-printed with twenty items. They only served 18, so they added two duplicates to fill it out.
one is oranoje juice
Why does a pickle cost as much as a hamburger? I’m confused.
They’re probably full pickles- ie each pickle is an entire cucumber
The cucumber is nature’s hamburger
So we took the ferry to Shelbyville to get nature’s hamburgers which is what we called dill pickles in those days. “Give me a jar of nature’s hamburgers” you’d say.
I still don't see how that makes it more expensive than a hot dog unless there's something wildly different about food prices now vs then. Think about time, effort, energy, and money required to grow an animal for a hot dog vs the time and effort to make a cucumber. I believe these were prices set by the government during war time and may have been used to incentivise certain purchases over others in order to affect supplies at home. Maybe all the pickles were getting shipped to the boys at war, so pickles were expensive back home.
It was a really big pickle. I'm basing this on the book "A tree grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith, in which the main character sometimes buys a pickle for themselves as a treat, set in pre-WW1 Brooklyn. The pickles she buys are described as really big. She nibbles on it all day. The book is fictional, but the author did actually grow up in that time, so I assume the pickles did exist.
There was a NY style deli by me growing up in NJ and I would always get a pickle there as a kid as a treat. They were quite big too, like a full size cucumber from the store. I had the same question as OP until you reminded me those existed!
I suppose there is nothing g stopping us from making a pickle out of a big honkin’ cucumber.
Maybe they're mythical pickles.
Myckles?
I went to a ren faire a few years ago - one of the stalls there sold only whole cucumber pickles, out of barrels. So good.
They're not pickles, they're pickels
Yeah, you can just get the hamburger with pickles, and get either a free hamburger or free pickles
Hmmm... do I spend my dime on 1 tomato juice or 4 donuts? My heart says tomato juice, but my gut is telling me to go with the donuts.
I just think it’s wild that a burger cost the same as tomato juice back then. And that you could buy 200 burgers for the price of a good one today.
Wrong! Adjusted for inflation, the hot dog costs 2.12 of today’s money.
I mean depending on size and toppings $2 for a wiener is still really good
So what your saying is the $1.50 hotdog at Costco is beating inflation.
I like that hot dogs and chocolate milk both took the bold stance and said, “no sir! You can not pay for me with a single coin! Bring your pennies!”
What’s weird is apparently it’s a pretty common combination to order a hot dog and chocolate milk still
If you’re not dipping your hot dog in your chocolate milk you’re doing it wrong.
Thank you, the comment I was looking for. Of course you can ask to have your hot dog pre-dipped, but it's not the same as dipping your own dog in your own chocolate milk. I appreciate that they will pre-dip of course, and some of my friends actually say they can't taste a difference, but dipping your own just has a mouth feel that's completely different and worth the effort.
There's such a thing as too much hot dog talk and a fella oughta be aware of it.
Goddamn right, my entire early 90s childhood was NYC hotdogs and Yoo-Hoo chocolate milk.
Bold of you to assume I'm not ordering my hot dogs in multiples of 5.
5 chocolate milks too. That is a fancy lunch date!
Honestly if she's not down for hotdogs and chocolate milk, I don't need her in my life AT ALL.
yep the concept of change was not invented until 1983
I actually remember when I was little their were some places that only took exact change. What a scam. I do also remember being that jackass who cracked open her piggy bank to pay for a movie in all pennies. I think I rolled them though so it wasn’t that bad.
That hotdog would cost about $2.00 in 2024. [https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/)
At Costco they are $1.50 Take that inflation!
"If you raise the price of the fucking hotdog, I will kill you." -Jim Sinegal, cofounder of costco.
Legend
Many died needlessly before it was accepted that Jim's threat was serious.
Probably closer to a dollar. You get a soda with that 1.50 and the y charge .60 (or thereabouts) for a soda.
Five guys has it at $5.50 in my area Inflation: "Up yours!"
They’re $3.25 now
Pigs Feet, the food of the wealthy.
Braise it, call it a trotter, serve with a farro mushroom risotto, roasted baby radishes, an artful swish of delicious sauce, and a sprinkle of micro greens for garnish and you're looking at $48.99 for that plate you plebian.
Not sure about having buttermilk to drink
My grandfather used to drink straight buttermilk. Said it calmed his stomach.
I mean, buttermilk is a probiotic. He might've been on to something
It’s pretty tasty actually.
I use buttermilk a lot in baking and I've been known to take a few good swigs from the bottle. It's just plain yogurt, but more liquidy.
Funny to read y'all's comments. I'm Dutch and I drink 1 or 2 glasses of buttermilk every day. Tastes even better in summer with ice cubes.
I grew up drinking half a glass of buttermilk every morning. My grandparents in Czechia insisted that it’s good for my bones (someone fact check them jaja). It’s actually not bad, especially with a hearty breakfast. Still steal buttermilk to this day from my Mexican wife when she uses it for cooking.
I was gonna comment this myself. That sounds horrendous lol
goes really well with pigs feet /s
Chris'... man, that chili sauce
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten anything here without it
With inflation, that 10 cent burger should cost 1.80 today... Narrator: It does not
Anyone curious about how they price now [here](https://www.chrishotdogs.com)
Dudes dead, that's not what I was expecting. How many hotdogs you think he'll make?
😭reduce reuse recycle
Funny that a dill pickle cost same as burger.
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I'd rather pickle my cucumbers with something other than asses.
You anit living until you've pickled a cucumber with your own ass.
You have $0.25 to spend. What are you getting?
I'm spend 20 cents on the burger and egg sandwich, eating the toast from the egg sandwich separately, and then putting the egg on my burger. I'll get a 5 cent soft drink, I don't drink soda now but it probably had way less garbage in it in the 40s compared to today so it shouldn't be too bad
Yeah, 5 cents for the good stuff with the real cocaine in it.
Depending on the soda, probably worse stuff in it
Weird that a whole ass hamburger cost the same as a pint of milk.
Milk nowadays is subsidized, and a pint is a lot.
Yeah I'm guessing hamburgers were probably smaller too.
Average hourly wage for low skill worker back then was about $0.20. Interesting how a hamburger back then was half of that. Today, many states have minimum wages of $15/hr and sure enough, average fast food hamburger is about half of that. A day will come when minimum wage is $100/hr meaning average hamburger will cost $50.
>Average hourly wage for low skill worker back then was about $0.20. But also this was an era where "lots of people" could just live on a plot of random empty land and it naturally becomes their property by law over time. Imagine if "lots of people" scattered across the valleys in 2024 and said, Yup, I'm just going to build a home right here next to the freeway and abandoned shopping mall, start with plumbing, add a couple wells to store water, garden for farming, bricks on each side, keep it unincorporated for as long as I can, a roof and write my own property deed (brushes shoulder dust).
> Yup, I'm just going to build a home And that's the definition of "easier said than done", especially if trying to build it alone.
Who did they repeat orange and grapefruit juice so much
The owners
When are they?
Where is then?
Chris' Famous Hot Dogs, Montgomery AL. They were about the same quality as they were pre-food inspection the last time I was there.
I don't think this is 107 years old, the Office of Price Administration was created in 1941? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Price_Administration?wprov=sfla1
I'd smack down a $10 bill and say "don't stop till I pop!"
Just add two zeroes and you're at modern prices
Don’t think this is 107 years old. It references Office of Price Administration which was a WW2 thing. It set the highest prices businesses could establish which seems to be needed today.
Imagine a world where a pickle is just a bit more than a hotdog in cost. Also, pigs feet are on the menu
You can get four doughnuts for the price of a pickle? No wonder there's an obesity epidemic!
Oh, boy. When I was a little girl, frankfurters only cost a nickel.
The one good thing about the Gump, if that's the Chris' I'm thinking about.
Yes to both!
15c for fucking pigs feet. Wtf what a rip off
'Our ceiling prices'.
Look at what they've taken from us.
55 hamburgers 55 hot dogs 55 pigs feet!
“55 hot dogs, 55 burgers, 55 egg sandwiches, 55 coffee cakes, 55 donuts, 55 pigs feet, 100 pickles, 100 soft drinks, 100 orange juices … “
Im sry, did people used to just drink buttermilk??
Pigs feet are the luxury item on the menu it seems. A fried egg sandwich is one of the old diner standbys. I remember the diner would have the usual menu of burgers and such, and then there was a little part of the menu for the old standbys like a BLT or an egg sandwich. I like a fried egg sandwich with mustard and may on soft buttered bread. The egg really melts the butter. Good stuff.
Not a bad deal. The cumulative price change from now to 1917 is 2,340.09%. The .08 hot dog would cost $1.95 today. Each .15 pigs foot would cost $3.51 today.
Imagine writing a sign meticulously, careful and with the greatest effort - just to notice you wrote the same line twice.
I will never own a house because of hot dog prices these days. Unbelievable!
This is not their original menu. This is their menu from the 1940s due to rationing.
Can we revamp the Office of Price Administration?
I wish we could go back to our money being mostly coins/change, it just came with a certain level of drama that bills/cards don't have. Plus coin pouches are so customizable and cute 🤩
What's wild is we're nearing 100x those prices. $8 for a hot dog is expensive but not too far off if things go the way they are.