5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920
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- ricardobayes - 11066 sekunder sedanAnyone interested in this might also like the tidbit that in Germany, they used to, and still count beer consumed as pencil strikes on the beer paper mat. Altering the number by the guest is legally considered forgery and the disappearance of the beer mat is also punishable by law.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierdeckel#Urkundencharakter (in German, English wiki doesn't have this info)
- monkeydust - 1055 sekunder sedanVery cool. Recommend walking through the curated story here
- shawnz - 897 sekunder sedanRelated, in a sense: "Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26210774
- temporallobe - 10652 sekunder sedanAs a foodie, I love this. In many respects, menus don’t seem to have drastically changed over the past 175ish years but it looks like a “Boiled” category was common early on, which I assume was because boiled foods were popular and/or easy for restaurants to make in bulk.
- wxw - 10874 sekunder sedanIf you’re ever in NYC, many of the hole-in-the-wall takeout Chinese restaurants have awesome 2000s era menu aesthetics.
Word art, clip art Lamborghinis next to the takeout number, all kinds of coloring. I love them.
- NooneAtAll3 - 3031 sekunder sedan5k Restaurant Menus, Years 2020-2026: [qr code][qr code][qr code][qr code]
- murats - 938 sekunder sedanOld menus are weirdly fascinating. They feel like tiny snapshots of daily life.
- BashiBazouk - 11662 sekunder sedanReally cool. I have A Treasury of Great Recipes by Mary and Vincent Price and it is similar. It has recipes from all the restaurants that they went to all over the world but every section has a menu from one of the restaurants that gave a recipe for that section, which is the real charm of the book. Interesting to see how little has changed except the prices...
- codazoda - 11715 sekunder sedanMany of these, from the mid 1800’s, would have been printed on a press with metal letters.
A modern open font that might match the style is Old Standard TT.
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Old%2BStandard%2BTT
I was curious how these were made back then and what modern fonts might look best.
- onionisafruit - 5540 sekunder sedanTapping doesn't work on a macbook with tap to click. To see a menu I have to do a full click instead of a tap. In the several years I've had tap to click set I don't think I've ever run across a web page where tapping doesn't work like a click.
- cs702 - 13141 sekunder sedanInteresting, these really old menus would not look too out of place at a restaurant today.
- zdc1 - 8970 sekunder sedanInteresting how little some things have changed.
The prices, on the other hand, seem quite cheap--even after converting to 2026 dollars.
- longos - 11373 sekunder sedanFor those seeking another, historically oriented commentary I would recommend https://www.theamericanmenu.com/. The author makes note of significant, famous restaurants like Delmonico's in NYC, current events of the time, and also culinary trends and menu images.
- mgkimsal - 11881 sekunder sedanwould be nice to be able to link to an individual menu.
cool collection, just harder to share some specific ones with friends.
- kdawag - 2825 sekunder sedanI absolutely love the data viz on this website, so freaking cool
- dinarphatak - 8668 sekunder sedanThis is such an interesting site. And is exactly the kind of curious content which I love seeing.
- manbash - 12361 sekunder sedanI am curious which of these places still exist today, as some menus depict the building. It would've be nice to have additional historical information.
- bflesch - 2301 sekunder sedanDoes anybody have a direct link about the archive they are talking about? I'm having trouble navigating the site tbh.
- XCSme - 3796 sekunder sedanNot loading for me, empty page (Brave/Windows)
- daemonologist - 11999 sekunder sedanInteresting that many of them lead with clams or oysters. (Perhaps this is still a thing at high-end restaurants, but to have them listed so frequently and prominently is completely foreign to me.)
- okutan - 9750 sekunder sedanIt was very slow; I struggled with it.
- jonahx - 11660 sekunder sedanVery cool site, but I had to leave when my mac laptop started burning my thighs...
- fhdkweig - 12129 sekunder sedandupe (kinda), Yesterday, 9 comments
- kaneda26 - 8595 sekunder sedanI'd be curious to know what software they are using to display the graph.
- lovegrenoble - 4552 sekunder sedanSo cool
- codetiger - 12174 sekunder sedanThe ice cream flavors are more meaningful those days. Nowadays they have every possible combinations like the weird "green chilly ice creams"
- pwillia7 - 12162 sekunder sedanI see everything is CENTS! I was like what on earth who is paying $250 for a ham sandwich???
- dostick - 5179 sekunder sedanDid you have to submit the title changing 5000 to “5k” ? Saving two characters is that important?
Nördnytt! 🤓