The Washington times., 1901-11-24
COMPRESSED MEALS
FOR BRO0KLYNITES.
A TABLOID RESTAURANT NOW OPEN.
A Dining-room Where Food May Be
Obtained in Lozenges or
Capsules rs Pre-
ferred.

Brooklyn now revels in the distinc-
tion of possessing the second tabloid
restaurant ever established. The first
began it's career in Manhattan few
weeks ago A tabloid restaurant. 1t
should be understood. is a restaurant
where food is served in condensed form
where the patron may take square
meal In a lozenge that may be swallow
ed in a single gulp. Or he can have
his dinner in a capsule. if he prefers it
that way But it must be said that
most people, even those who are sufh-
ciently up-todate TO patronize tab
loid restaurant, became so addicted to
eating in early life that they find it
hard to abandon the practice. Thus it
happens that at the tabloid restaurant
most patrons prefer their food lozenges
diluted with water-so it will last long
er. perhaps.
Recent Invention.
The tabloid restaurant was made
possible by the recent invention of COM
pressed foods few years ago. Com
pressed foods were supposed to be de-
sirable only as an emergency ration,
but some enterprising individual found
that the compressed foods would ap-
peal to a certain portion of the public
even where there was an abundance
of restaurants of the ordinary type.
Hence. the tabloid restaurant The
place is on Fulton Street almost di-
rectly opposite the bridge entrance, and
it is already patronized by large and
growing class of well-dressed and in
telligent people, apparently of the bet
ter classes, who seem to have been at
tracted at first by the novel menu and
who remain patrons afterward because
they like the food.
The patrons do not seem to like to
have a large dish served to them with
only a small portion of its surface COW
cred with the edible he is expected to
consume, and in consequence the beef
steak" fish balls.'' .'fricassee,' y
roast" and mock turtle supplied at
the restaurant in question are only
about third smaller than the real
article would be. 1t is all solid nutri-
ment, however and the patrons of the
place order the dishes as though they
really were enamored of them.
An lnDreIenI1OuS fiucts
The restaurant is small and unpre-
tentious. but it is kept exquisitely neat
and clean. Curtains screen the interior
from the gaze OF the curious on the
street, and they are really needed, for
there is always fringe of small boys
trying to peer in and learE just what
kind of human beings they are who
prefer quality to quantity when 1t comes
to such vital question as food. Or
one side of the restaurants interior is
the usual array of tables, the linen al
most sparkling in its starchy white
ness, while on the other side is q coun-
ter extending down the whole length
of the place and on which are ranged
bottles. cans. and packages of the COM
pressed foods. For these a ready sale
is found over the counter. Some of the
more interesting items on the bill OF
fare are as follows:
Compressed beefsteak, 10 cents; COM
pressed fish balls, 10 cents. compressed
fricassee la cents: compressed roast.
Is cents: compressed mock turtle, 10
cents; nut roast, Is cents; gratine of
cauliflower 10 cents. protose nut meat,
Is cents: protose hash. Is cents; nut
tolene, f5 cents. baked beans with pro-
tose, 10 cents: spinach croquettes, Is
cents: tomato beefsteak. Is cents.
In order to get an idea of what COM
pressed beefsteak would taste like to
the ordinary mortal the investigator
called for that dish. 1t was served With
brown gravy. "a sweet potato, and
three slices of bread. In appearance
compressed beefsteak looks like Ham
burger steak and it is decidedly pala-