I remember when tongue sandwiches were served in some of the restaurants here in the city .. I doubt you will find that in a walk in restaurant/cafe now.. and look at the prices!
An astounding 20,000 people waited for the doors to open at the new Siegel-Cooper department store in September 1896.
This was the emporium New York City consumers were waiting for: 80 departments featured everything from the latest fashions to pets to pianos to bicycles. Merchandise was spread out over 15 acres of selling space in a massive building on Sixth Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets.
(Oddly, the above illustration of the store doesn’t show the Sixth Avenue El, which had a special exit at 18th Street that led directly inside the building.)
But shopping can be exhausting, and even with the 20th century on the horizon, there were still few restaurants within the Ladies’ Mile shopping district where it was socially acceptable for a woman or group of women to grab a bite. (This is the Gilded Age, after all, and unescorted ladies weren’t supposed to dine on their…
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My mother made tongue, a vestige of her Eastern European upbringing. She made it pickled or roasted. I preferred the roasted version mainly because it looked more like regular beef. Pickled actually looked like a tongue and had a gross factor for my sibs and I. It actually was good in hindsight. My youngest sister would joke about how it was butchered: “Here, Bossie! Hold still!” We were pre-teens.” 🙄
When I lived in Guatemala in the 70s, our school cafeteria served tongue sandwiches. I declined.
Does that mean to this day .. you have not tasted the meat? How you doing ? we’ve had the hottest month in history up here.!!!
Never tried it, nope. Ridiculously hot here, too, but starting to cool a little.