Titanic's Final Dinner Menu Fetches Rs 84.5 lakh At Auction
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Titanic Dinner Menu: A water-stained menu from three days prior to the Titanic disaster unveils the dining choices of passengers, featuring shellfish, salmon, squab, and Victoria pudding.
The first-class dinner menu from the Titanic, which went up for auction on Saturday evening in England, fetched 83,000 pounds ( Rs 84.5 lakh), as reported by the UK-based newspaper The Guardian. The last dinner for first-class passengers on the RMS Titanic, just three days before the ship struck an iceberg on its maiden Atlantic voyage and sank on the night of April 14, 1912, is depicted in the surviving menu that was auctioned.
The menu raises questions about who took it while evacuating to lifeboats and what Victoria pudding is.
The latter question has a simple answer: the boiled dessert served that evening with apricots and French ice cream is a mix of flour, eggs, jam, brandy, apples, cherries, peel, sugar, and spices. The menu, stained with water and featuring a White Star logo, lists the culinary offerings on April 11, including oysters, salmon, beef, squab, duck, and chicken, along with potatoes, rice, and parsnip puree.
