Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-06

at time in table d. hote style, and they
!. begin dinner, with soup and end it with
beans The waiter at the hotel brings a
bowl of soup to you and you ladle out as
much as you want After soup you have
half a dozen different kinds Of meat and
vegetables served separately, and you close
with dessert of coffee. Mexican ffijoles
always form part of the meal Ihese are
pronounced freeholiesa and they are Mexican
black beans They are superior to the bes-
ton baked beans, and every one eats them.
cooked and they are always served In greas
abundance. They close the meal as rice
closes dinner in Japan, and suppose the
idea Is that the man who has not had enough
of other things can gil up on beans.
Only the better classes of Mexicans eat
meat, and one of the great fields Of Amer
ieap investment is In the packing interests
of Mexico. Ham and beef bring high
prices and the meat business OF the city Is
managed by menopolies. Good beeves are
worth from s25 to $50 head, and there 1s
more mutton eaten than beef A great deal
Of the beef comes from Guanahuato and
Take one of the greasiest, dfrtiest mules
you can find and fasten o framework OF
hooks to q saddle an his back. Let this.
framework extend about o foot above the
mule and on the hooks hang the halye. and
quarters of beeves DO that the blood drips
from them on the ground and 80 that when
the mules are small the meat almost touches
the ground, and you have
THE MEXICAN BUTcHER CART
The butcher or meat pedler wears great
blanket about his shoulders, broad
brimmed hat on his head and his feet are
bare. If you buy qnsrter Of beef he will
carry 1t into the house on his head, and if
you want slice he will hack off piece for
you and charge you about the same for the
neck as the loin. The Mexicans sell every
part of the animal, and in every market you
will find little cook shops IN which shreds
of beef are fried and offered for sale. These
are for the Indian customers who stand
about and eat the greasy morsel with their
fingers.
In Mexico City the butchering is more
carefully done and beef Is comparatively
cheap. You can get roast FOR Is cents
pound, but pork is more expensive. The
pork business in Mexico City Is controlled
by Mexican who has made millions out OF
it, and he Is now putting op one Of the big
gest packing houses In the world. He has
his agents all over the city and he imports
his hogs from Kansas.
Mexico is the land Of the Fry. Nearly
every kind of meat Is cooked in lard, and
the consequence Is that lard is very high
priced. 1t costs 81 cents pound, and it
largely takes the place of butter. It Is very
hard to find good butter in Mexico. That
made by the natives Is largely from goats
milk. 1t Is as white as smear-kase cheese,
and is dressed without salt. 4 smart Ameri-
can has started dairy N Mexico City. He
has Jersey COWS, and gets from 90 cents to
81 a pound for his butter, and proportion
ately as high prices for his milk.
HOUSEKEEPING Is EXPENSIVE.
You find good chickens all over Mexico,
Chickens are peddled around in coops on
the backs of men, and now and then you
will see an Indian with perhaps two dozen
tied together by the legs and thrown over
his shoulders. BE goes with these from
house to house and sells them. Eggs are
sold in the market in little piles of four to
the pile, and not by the dozen rs we sell
them, and note that in some places the
eggs are packed in corn husks for shipment.
Everything in the Mexican market seems to
be sold in piles, and could find no stand
ard of measurement except the e5e. There
we're piles of four tomatoes, of
six t little potatoes Of Of handful
like things around each pedler, and these
pedlers were Indians, and the Indians
seemed to be the market men Of Mexico.
They carry their wares for miles into the
city on their backs, and a dollars worth of
market stuff is carried for days in order that
it may be sold here. The buying is done in
the same picayune way as the selling, and
this city of 800, 600 people lives from hand
to mouth. don't believe there is q cellar
in the whole town, and every morning the
servants go to market and buy enough for
the day. They buy for cash, and before 60
ing to bed you have to leave enough silver
with your servants for the morning market
ing. 1t is not fashionable for ladies to do
their own marketing, and everything is
bought by the servants. The result is that
in Mexico is very expensive,
and between the prices charged and what
the servants steal the outlay is even greater
than it is in the United States.
THE UNIVERSAL s1EsrA.
The Mexicans themselves live much more
cheaply than we do. The morning meal |
even among the richest classes consists of |
only cup of chocolate or coffee, with plain |
bread or sweet cake. The Mexicans eat this |
by dipping it into the chocolate, and they |
often take this meal in bed. Coffee is served |
in your rooms at all the hotels if you desire |
it, and If you live like the Mexicans YOU
will find your charges much less. The sec |
ond breakfast is served at u or 1 o'clock, |
and at this all the family sit down, and it |
is really dinner rather than q breakfast.
Soup is always served at it, and the Mexi- |
cans have hundred different kinds of SOUP.
The evening meal is taken about o'clock, |
and at this the family meet as at the second |
breakfast.
No work is done by anyone in Mexico for |
about two hours after this Fmidday break |
fast, and the business hours here are from 9 |
To Q and from g to Ratuean ] and +La |