Nobody Daily – 6/23/08

Nobody Asked Me But:

Sunday my wife and I walked into Du-par’s and picked up a menu from the pile lying there. This is a little of what we saw:

SOUPS
Split Pea .15

SANDWICHES
American cheese .15
Swiss cheese .20
Bacon and tomato .30

Hamburger sandwich (lettuce,
pickle, special dressing on a
toasted bun) .20
Cheeseburger .25

SALADS
Chef’s salad bowl .35
Cottage cheese .20
Pineapple and cottage cheese .30

(All orders of salad served with
English walnut bread and butter)

OUR SPECIALTIES
Chicken pie .35
Hamburger steak (potatoes and
toasted roll) .50

BREAKFAST
Hotcakes (with bacon or
sausage) .40
Ham and two fresh eggs,
potatoes and toast .55
Bacon or sausage and two
fresh eggs, potatoes and toast .50
Buttered toast and jelly .10

DU-PAR’S FAMOUS PIES
Fresh green apple .15
Fresh boysenberry .15
Old fashioned lemon .15
Northwestern wild blackberry .20

(Ala mode or whipped cream .05)

Gill’s old fashioned ice cream .10

BEVERAGES
Manning’s delicious hot coffee .05
Manning’s blue label tea .10
Pot of Postum .10
Orange juice .10
Iced Coca Cola or root beer .10

We tried to quickly get seated before they changed their mind, but then we read the small print.

1938 menu for Du-par’s Farmhouse at the Farmer’s Market (Gladstone 7773)