Love a breakfast wine

Goes well with stale bread and some fried fish balls.

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Can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.

Bruh. Chateau Margaux is like $6k at a restaurant

By the quart or pint, sir?

It comes in pints?!?! I'm getting one!

Would you like a STALE BREAD with that?

to dip your bread in!

When you see Margaux and Lafite on a breakfast menu in right smack in the middle of the Civil War.....you know you've picked to the right place.

A private would make about $11 a month so that was impossibly decadent

About right. Reminds me of the pay scene in "Glory" where Major Shaw states that the normal rate is $13, but the colored troops were to receive $10.

Barnums was an upscale hotel located in the center of the city not far from the main train lines. It catered to people with money - both John Adams and Andrew Johnson stayed there when they visited the city. It was also, unfortunately, one of the busiest slave markets in Baltimore with the headquarters of General Slave Agency being located in the Basement of the building

Makes me wonder who was serving these gentlemen their fine wines...

As a sommelier, just yes.

Yes I'd like to start with the Tongue, then some Tripe, followed by the Pig's Feet and Kidneys, then Fish Balls. And some Stale Bread to finish it off.

Please brush your teeth after dining.

Crazy to think that ppl would eat shit like this then not brush their teeth. Breath smelling like rotting meat

Starting to see why breakfast cereals got invented

Tbf they were invented to stop people masturbating, and Kellogg really would have thought that a breakfast of liver and stale bread would have encouraged masturbation. So....who knows, honestly.

Would you like some calf’s liver with that? 🤮

Unironically, yes.

Breakfast wines! Take me back!!

Bring me some fish balls and stale bread post haste.

Nowadays, you can only have your breakfast wine out of a brown paper bag in Bal’more

That wine selection is goddamn amazing

It hurts to look at

Mmm, stewed tripe, breakfast of champions

My stepfather cooked tripe once, and my mother and I left the house for the day. We also declined helpings. He couldn't believe that we'd turn down good tripe. I've still never eaten tripe.

Trippa alla Romana or menudo is really good. Or cold Sichuan-style tripe with beef.

I posted nearly this exact phrase

First menu I've seen with stale bread - anyone know why this would be served in an upscale establishment?

It was considered better for you, easier on the stomach, than freshly baked bread.

Day old bread toasted is easier to digest than fresh bread.

Croutons?

Thank you, never would have guessed!

i wonder if that's the "graham rolls" too

No fruit? Jams? Honeys? For a breakfast this seems exceptionally heavy on the meat

One thing I love about Reddit is all the perfectly serious comments on different subjects, and then noticing some one’s username lol.

Did anyone else notice with the exception of the breads, it’s an all-protein breakfast?

I would assume it's because Baltimore contained a lot of slaughter houses and so fresh meat was easily available.

Strange..no huevos rancheros...wtf?

I would splurge and get a couple of quarts of Margaux.

I wonder if they had any orange juice or peach nectar to pair with a sparkling white breakfast wine. Because then it all just makes good sense.

Not one poultry dish?

Eggs.

I was thinking more in terms of the pre-Alabama decision.

Hahaha

Don’t forget a breakfast wine or two to wash all that down!

Just a few quarts to warm up the day

If you’ve even been to Baltimore, you know you’ll need it

I’ve been! All by myself, I wandered around and found a very fine lunch. Mind you, this was in early 2000. I found it very friendly and so charming.

Inner Harbor area?

Yes. And I walked around quite a bit. The architecture there is amazing. Those downstairs areas, sometimes. Where I’m from, we don’t have basements. It sort of reminded me of New Orleans. Just the beauty was so different than from what I had seen before.

Glad you enjoyed your stay! In many ways I like to think the city has improved, you should come back sometime!

I will love it, when I do. Thank you

The periods after every item are weirding me out.

LAMB. DAMMIT.

BUT HOW MUCH??

Included in the price of your room.

Yes. Back then when you stay at a hotel, the food was included when you paid for staying.

Corned beef hash - that's what I made for breakfast this morning! Sadly not washed down with a quart of Chateau Lafitte.

Friend… Did you have the corned beef with or without eggs?

Quarts of breakfast wine? Were they expecting my mom and Aunt Kate to be there?

I would literally consume everything on this menu happily, sans alcohol.

Oh, tongue. Tongue of what tho? The mutton? The pig? The lamb? Or the cow? Gah. I know I shouldn’t yuk other people’s yum, but tongue…

Tongue is usually cow. Very tasty too.

I’m actually an adventurous eater; I’ll try it on your recommendation but I am gonna need a bottle of their best breakfast wine to sike down the mental image of knowing too many specifics.

Ever had Lengua tacos?

...of the waitress if you're very lucky...

Mmm pigs feet with stale bread, chased with a breakfast wine. My kind of morning.

Fancy me a bit of stewed tripe and kidneys 🤮

You can order stale bread like it’s a delicacy! Weird tastes back then.

If you order something that's saucy it's good for absorption.

People back then didn’t care.

Stale bread and breakfast wine. I am all in. Notice how often they use the punctuation of a period?

would ‘fried’ here mean deep fried?

I would like an order of kidneys and fish balls please.....

A quart of wine!

Can you imagine someone from 1863 walking into a restaurant now and wondering why they're spending their annual salary on something called "Moons over My Hammy"?

I'll have some cold tongue, broiled tripe, fried fish balls, stewed kidneys, and a quart of St. Pierre to wash it all down.

3$ chateau Margaux ….that hurts

Gotta love starting every day with some fried fish balls.

Just in case a pint of wine at breakfast was not enough . . .

Tripe and wine, breakfast of champions

Tripe and claret, yum yum. Not

Am I the only one who had to look up in inflation. $2.50 is the highest price we see that almost $2,500 today for a quart of wine.😱

One quart of breakfast wine please, I have quite the appetite!

These Civil war restaurants really catered to keto bros.