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Free lunch, by Charles Dana Gibson.. The meal requirement was met by the cheapest sandwich available, sometimes reused across tables, or sandwiches made of rubber. [3]Jacob Riis wrote in 1902 of saloon keepers who mocked the law by setting out "brick sandwiches," two pieces of bread with a brick in between, thus fulfilling the legal requirement of serving food.
New York's Raines Law meant to crack down on drinking, but it instead gave rise to an industry of hotel brothels.
Blue laws banned saloons from selling alcoholic beverages on Sundays, but the Raines law of 1896 permitted hotels to do so. When saloon keepers responded by creating bedrooms, which were then used for prostitution, the Committee demanded inspections of premises to distinguish legitimate hotels from saloons.
The nearly indigent "free lunch fiend" was a recognized social type. An 1872 New York Times story about "loafers and free-lunch men" who "toil not, neither do they spin, yet they 'get along'", visiting saloons, trying to bum drinks from strangers: "Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bartender is occupied, tries to ...
4. The French Dip. Two different Los Angeles restaurants, Philippe's and Cole’s, claim to have invented the French Dip over 100 years ago, but they both know one thing: Sandwiches beg to be ...
Mother-in-Law Sandwich, aka Tamale On A Bun, Fat Johnnie's - Chicago, IL Photo by Amy C Evans, SFA oral historian March 2008. 10. Mother-in-Law. Region: Chicago .
John Raines (May 6, 1840, in Geneva, Ontario County, New York – December 16, 1909, in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He authored the 1896 Raines Law , which prohibited liquor sales on Sundays, except in hotels, which had the unintended consequence of fostering prostitution .
For cutting those extra large sandwiches, Cahn uses “lots and lots of toothpicks,” to hold the sandwich together, and a serrated knife to slice as close to the bottom as possible.