Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-13
THE PULLMAN BUFFET
Beans the Preference of a Majority of
Travellers.

Although YOU may not believe it,"
said Pullman porter the other day.
as he was getting leady to serve a
lunch on the train to party of hungry
travellers, there is nothing that we
carry that we Sell more of than baked
leans and brown bread. We carry lots
of other stuff on the road. hut most
people seem to prefer the cid New Eng
land Saturday night staples to any
thing else.
Its funny, too, tat the demand for
beans and brownbread is not Svho.ly
confined to the New England states
All over the East ley are very roru-
Ia: although New England il aholt the
only part of the country where they ara
common on the table.
There is Il lot of nourishment in q
| portion of beans that we serve up to n
customer. The bears that the Pullman
Co. use are baked especially for the
| company by we'll Known canning es-
Enlistment and are put up in portions
.ust large enough Tor one passenger.
They are cooked when we get them.
| all that has to be done is to put them
| in a dish of hot water without opening
them until they are hot enough. when
| they are all right to Serve.
Next to beans, I guess the sand
witches take the palm. We carry !,
| number of different kinds, but the
greatest favorite with passengers is
} am. For % cents, one can get enough
| ham sandwich to satisfy almost any
| appetite.
| Chicken sandwiches are also very
popular, but they can't beat the han,
| variety for general popularity. TONGUE
| sandwiches are also considerably eat
| Ell, but they are not SO much sold as
the other kinds.
There are several varieties of soups
| or broths that the Pullman Co stocks,
| it's cars WITH but l think that tomato
| soup is the most popular of the lot 1t
| is entirely different from the others
| chicken, clam broth and beef bouillOn,
Chicken soup is Il favorite, too as is
| the clam liquid, but we sell twice as
| much chicken and tomato soup as we
| do of the clam broth.
| "One of the most popular things that
we carry are the mineral waters We
/
/ fast ginger ale, in addition to the spir-
ituous liquors, but the latter are not for
sale in temperance states. Most every
passenger, if he gets his lunch Of us,
buys a bottle of mineral water or the
| ginger ale. / guess the ginger ale wins
| out when it comes to deciding which is
the most popular. Not everyone likes
| mineral water, but nearly every one
drinks the ale.
| Most of the people that patroniZe
Che buffet are not inclined to be heavy
| caters, rs the excitement of railroad
| journeys doesn't generally improve the
| appetite. Sometimes, however, we viii
! run across man or woman that has
an appetite like a whale and then there
| is something doing.
! Il had two MEN set on the train Il
few nights ago at Portsmouth and they
| told me that they wanted lunch served
| and i'll a hurry. l brought Il monu for
| them to pick out what they wanted
but after ordering one or two orders Of
| everything on tie list one of the men
| said, Is this all You have for lunch?'
evidently expecting that l would pro-
ducc another additional bill of fare
from somewhere. | told him flat WAS
the entire menu, and after cooling down
started in to eat and finally made way
with every thing OH the bill of fare, as
we'll as one or two seconds. Luckily
he was an exception to the general
1ulc."