OLYMPIC MEALS

Evening Star, Issue 20010, 30 October 1928, Page 14

OLYMPIC MEALS

HUNGRY ATHLETES’ APPETITES. Duriii" ihe period of the Olympic Games at Amsterdam (says the American correspondent of the ‘Daily Telegraph’) there were supplied by ono firm alone which catered tor hungry sportsmen, and women and iheir friends at the Stadium ; 10,700 eggs, 1,3001 b of bam, 8001 b of beef, 17.000 beefsteak?. 6.000 mutton aml veal chops, 8.000 pints of milk, 35.000 pints of beer, 680 tins of preserved fruits. 2.000 tins of preserved vegetal',c-, 68.000 (ins of sweetmeat, 7101 b of butter, 37,400 cups of codec and lea. There is a quaint psychological feature in Ibe circumstance that on the occasion of the German partiiepaiion in the football competition 75,00 small sausages were consumed, whereas on the conclusion of these matches the Teutonic players and their friends having returned to their hotels in the centre of the city, not more than sixty of these delectable morsels found customers. The weather was, of course, a deciding factor in the sale of ices, and the owner of the cafe referred to states that while he had prepared 500.000 metal cups filled with ice cream, lie did not sell, owing to the prevalence of a relatively low temperature, more than 80,000 of them.