E. True's cure for inflation (August 26, 1907)
E. True's cure for inflation (August 26, 1907)
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Apparently
- squarehead is an "Extremely Disparaging and Offensive" term for a German/Dutch/Scandinavian person
- porch climber is a term for a thief (bc you climb up the porch to sneak in the window?)
My family always used blockhead (still do sometimes). My grandfather was Norwegian.
porch climber
that's too close to porch monkey
Those terms seem to be unrelated, see here: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/hugtd2y
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.
Hate these comics. In half of them he creates the problem by using violence. You're all lunatics for enjoying this psychopathic content, but then again the majority of Lemmy is American and you love your American Psychos or Bates Motel role models so who am I to judge (hint, not a psychopath, pretty low bar)
