To The New York Hekaxj>: 1 quite
agree with "G. S." regarding restaurant j
prices. I
Vcsterday X lunched at a cafetcria
and was charged five cents for a single
thin pat of butter and ten cents for u |
browned potato. Potatoes are selling!
at ten pounds for 25 cents, or about,
three-quarters of a cent apiece. Why |
1,000 per cent, profit? And butter is!
now retailing sit 61 cents a pound and j
a pound would make a hundred pats ol" i
the size I received with my lunch.
I find this proportion in all the ros- i
taurants in which I lunch while trying
to reduce the high cost of eating. Why !
should these restaurant persons charge
war prices when there is a noticeable!
reduction In most food prices?
F. K. ItOOKKtt.
Naw York, March 11.
Queer Human Food.
Influence of Cuntoin and Religion on
Mankind's Choice of .Meat.
Itriu.-Or.n. H. G'. Burton in London Mail.
We hear from Paris of foxes, polecats,
badgers and squirrels being sold?on a
very limited scale, of course?for hu
man food, not in the siege of 1870, when
dogs, cats and rats were esteemed as
Uelicacics, but In tills present year ol'
1921.
Under stress of famine almost any
thing will be eaten, whiie food accepted
In one country may be rejected In an
other. The tiger will reject portions of
a c&rcasa that are eaten with avidity
by a Scotsman In the form of haggis
and the hyena.
A Mohammedan would usually rather
die than rat pork, but 1 was ucqunlnted
with a descendant of Tlpu Sultan of
Mysore who liked ham and eggs for
breakfast. Tho Hindu regards the eat
ing of beef with horror?but that is a
matter of religion.
