The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-10-13
SOME QUEER CITY CLUBS.
ODD GAsTRONONIO GATHERINGS
IN THE METROPOLIS.
An Annual Dinner of Snails-The
MnccarOnf Club-Beef steak and
Mutton Chop Clubs.

An Annual Dinner of snails--The
MaccarOui Club-Beef steak aud
Mutton Chop Clubs.
Alfred Trumble says in a recent issue
of the New York Nelos The Corn Club.
/ see by the papers, eats its annual din
ncr at the Ast0r House next Thursday.
The Snail Club ate its monthly dinner
last Wednesday and l helped it. We had
good dinner, though the bill Of fare
was not limited to the one comestble, as
it viii be in the case Of the Corn Club.
We had meat and vegetables, besides
snail soup and snail a la Bordelaise, which
means baked in their shells. with the
doors closed with a savory crust of bread
crumb, herbs and onion; stewed snails,
snails on toast. snails simply boiled.
and possibly half dozen more forms Of
preparation. All | could ever taste
about snail was the bran il is fattened
on and the favoring used in preparing
it, and altogether / have found it an in
sipid dish. But the Snail Club, whose
members are half a dozen Frenchmen
from the South of France, swears by it
as the game of the clubs country, and
holds solemn conclave once a month
the year round for w0rshiping its native
dainty The Maccaroni Club is another
queer gastronomic organization that /
now and then eat with. Its members are
all Americans, though they meet in an
italian restaurant to devour an essen
TALLY Italian dish, OF rather dishes, for l
have seen twenty varieties of maccaroni
set out at one of their feasts. The only
other edible allowed is tripe la Milan
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central dish around which the Macca-
ronis group themselves. Some years ago
used to eat Saturday night supper of
tripe and oysters, or tripe and onions, as
the caterer might elect, as the guest of
the Grubb Street Club. The Grubb
Street Club, curiously enough, was not
composed of literary but of dry goods
men. They were sil young fellows given
TO literature as vury, and met on
Saturday night in cosy West Side
chop-house to treat their friends and
themselves. / am afraid the Grubb
Street Club is a club no longer, OF else
/ have, for some offence beyond nv
ken, been dropped from its in
vitation list. One of my earliest club
experiences in New York was with the
Pigs Knuckle Club This was Ger
D1an and American Affair that met on
Sunday nights in famous east side beer
hall kept by sturdy old revolutionist
of AS. 1t took its name from the only
heshly article of consumption allowed
boiled pigs knuckle-which came on
always trimmed with sour crout. That
beer was the staple beverage with this
dish need hardly state. have known
half Il do1en Beefsteak Clubs. and am
still member in good standing OF the
Mutton Chop Club. The President of
tins society is the Captain of an Atlantic
steamer Some ten years ago, when
English mutton was a greater rarely here
than it is now, he got into the habit of
bringing a carcass over in his ice-box
and inviting some friends to eat it with
him. Out of these assembiages the Nut
ton Chop Club grew. The Captain pro-
vided the chops; the members provided
room to eat them in and no end of
trimmings, and the meetings occurred
about four times year. The club doesn {
wait for the Captain to supply it with
chops now, but markets for itself. and
has monthly meetings. whether he is in
port or not. The Mutton Chop Clubs
Treasurer, who also supervises the
cuisine, possesses a recipe for deviling
kidneys that is unique. No one knows
how he does it but himself. but he has
pledged himself to communicate the
recipe to the club IN his will