The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-25
COSTLY LIVING.
The High Price of Good Food In
Charming Vienna.

From the Boston Herald
Vienna, says a correspondent from that
city, is one of the most expensive cities
in the world-in so far as good and varied
food is concerned. The poor peopIe-and
their name is legion-scarcely know the
taste of good. nutritive flesh meat. A
beefsteak costs about 2s a pound. and
veil, known as weiner schnitzerl, a little
more; and as for fsh-with the exception
OF few of the commoner kinds of river
hsh-it is a caviare to the million. Sal
mon, which is not as fresh as it might be
by three or four days. Costs Is a pound,
when il is to be had at all. These prices
are among the most important factors in
moldings the culinary art in Austria gen
orally, and in Vienna in particular. Hence
II Is that soups are so often a mockery
and snare, vegetarian in reality while
their misleading names and fiavors are
but the homage which poverty pays 10
opulence. These conditions likewise ex-
plain the universally of sausages, black
puddings, minced and spiced meats of va
rious kinds-which in some cases are said
TO be very palatable indeed, and in very
many are but thinly disguised forms Of a
lottery. 1t Is like the game often played
by children, shut your eyes and open
your mouth, and see what God will send
you" One is never sure which represen-
tative of the animal kingdom has been
sacrificed for the cheap feast. These
highly peppered and cunningly disguised
bags of nutrition of the black pudding
category are too often what Mark Twain
termed dark and bloody mysteries" One
OF the cleverest sausage makers in Hun
gary, on being saved from a watery grave
by the celebrated patriot, Franz Deak.
turning to his benefactor in a paroxism
of gratitude, exclaimed: Money you will
not accept Very well, then, I'll give you
q piece of advise that may yet save your
life, as you have saved mine. Ii is this:
In summer never eat a sausage of a wurst
of any kind whatever. l am "a sausage
maker myself, so that my advice is dis
interested" And Deak followed it in sum
mer and in winter
One of the delicacies of the table of the
Austrian, German and Hungarian bour-
geois is the highly spiced sausage or
Wurst, know as "Salami." People who
would not look at any other kind of dis
guised meat eat that with gusto, smack
ing their lips after it at home and signing
for it abroad. Even foreigners, including
Engnshmen and Americans, take very
kindly to salami, of which there are two
kinds, Italian and Hungarian. 1t does not
look very tempting when hung up in a
sausagemaker's shop, and were il any
where else-in wood or a garden for ex-
thick decayed branch of a birch tree. But
1t tatters the palate and fills the stomach.
Some English people esta blished in Aus
tria, who delight in salami, were Mortified
to read in the papers that the price of
this delicacy would be raised considerably
this year; not because they begrudged a
few pence pound more for their salami,
but owing to the reason given, viz: asses
meat has gone up considerably in price
of late both in Italy and Hungary, and
sausage-makers must follow suit" Salami
is made Of asses meat. Another family
lately come from the United States, and
now settled in Vienna, was unutterably
distressed to find that the shop at which
they obtained their meat, sausages, etc,
was licensed for the sale Of horsehesh
only; and as this circumstance was set
forth in large letters over the door, which
they never took the trouble to read, they
had only themselves to blame
But these are unheard of delicasies in
Comparison with what the poor have to
eat every day on which they allow them
selves the luxury of meat. few days
ago person named Glicka appeared in
court to answer a charge of having sold
tripe to man who, having set that dain-
~ before his family, had to call in the
doctor, as his wife was taken i'll with a
disease closely resembling cholera, which
confined her to bed for several days. and
has not yet been wholly cured. This ven
dor was acquitted on the ground that he
had sold the stuff as he received it-from
his wife; this lady, however, was sent
to prison for ii days.