ONE MAN’S IDEAL MEAL
LONDONER’S FOURTEEN DISHES Every day of the week, between 12.30 and 3 p.m., a little man of professional appearance, dressed in a dark suit and wearing white shoes and socks, enters a small restaurant in Edgeware road, London. and orders luncheon. The lunch is unique in the sense that (he man orders the same dishes and drinks each day, and never begins ids meal until the complete order is placed before him. Here it is:— Soup, two junkets, three jellies (In separate dishes), three hard-boiled eggs (in thin shells), cheese (three varieties), biscuits (two varieties, sweet)* a plate of sardines, a mixed salad, salmon mayonnaise, a double ice cream, one extra large coffee, one glass of milk, one glass of cider, one* glass of barley water. . . , , Once he begins to eat this meal he becomes oblivious to all abo.ut him. H-s method of eating is as varied as the dishes. For instance, he may start by stabbing a sardine; then he will cat a biscuit or polish off a portion of jelly; swallow a few spoonfuls of soup and sample the cheese. Sometimes he will try some mixed vegetable salad, a smatter of junket, some salmon mayonnaise, barley water, another variety of cheese, a ladle of soup bolstered by a variety jelly, and a half glass of cider. As the contents disappear he places the dishes one on top of another on a chair beside him, and the glasses on top of these when the stack is complete. A waitress states he is a regular customer, and his bill for the juggling of this gastronomical puzzle is eight shillings a day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22712, 26 October 1935, Page 22
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275ONE MAN’S IDEAL MEAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 22712, 26 October 1935, Page 22
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