A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.
@clark@midwest.social is going back to school and can't post any more!
E-Tru wants YOU to keep this community alive! Pick a cartoon from one of the following sources and make a post:
Do your part... OR ELSE--
Apparently
My family always used blockhead (still do sometimes). My grandfather was Norwegian.
I mean, they say "blockhead" in Peanuts. It can't be ludicrously insulting right? Or was Lucy essentially using the hard-R right in front of our eyes?
I wonder if that's where this character got his name from. He's from around the same time period
porch climber
that's too close to porch monkey
5 dogs for that price, that's $1.25, which was close to the average daily wage for an unskilled laborer. He took a larger proportion of that wage home than he would today, but that still seems expensive for outdoor mystery meat on a scrap of stale bread. Remember how we went down the rabbit hole about Upton Sinclair and the canned "boneless chicken"? Good times. EDIT: fixin my punctuation.
Apparently a hotdog was definitively a sandwich in 1907. Unless a frankfurter was something else
Nope, the frankfurter sausage is the immediate precursor to the American "hot dog," and it's entirely likely that what was being sold by this huckster was the latter.
A hot dog has never not been a sandwich.
Going from 1 cent to 25 isn't inflation, it's outright a scam.
Mrs True was wearing a $2000 (in 1906 dollars) coat the other day, but a quarter for a hot dog is too rich for his blood?
Everett knows the value of a dollar, and the value of a street sausage.
I don't know the answer, I thought Mrs. True had an economical coat and the $2000 coat belonged to another character. But I DO know that I love your user name.
That's like a $9-$10 hotdog today. Yea, I'd be pissed if a hot dog stand charged that much.