/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16909540
what year you think that was?
like 1950 after the war?

>>16909558
1900

I love checking out these old menus.

>>16909558
kome-academy.com/en/roots/spread.html
>in 1901, a restaurant car operated by the Western-cuisine restaurant Seiyoken appeared on the Tokaido Main Line (Shinbashi Station to Kobe Station) express trains. (The restaurant car sold meat dishes for 15 sen and vegetable dishes for 12 sen, with a sen being 1/100th of a yen.)
so maybe before WW2? pulling this completely out of my ass mind you

>>16909540
it's in japanese

>>16909582
1900 is way before even WW I, just look at those prices, that's definitely pre-war.

>>16909565
way to pricey for 1900 if it was in us dollars ill be honest it might be yen and then 1900 yen is worth ????
I dont know
but if it was us money to charge a quarter for a fried egg would be insanity like 33 bucks for an egg

>>16909593
The left side of each page is in moon runes, the right is English.

>>16909604
>>16909605
The prices are in fractional yen (sen). Look at the top right for the ¥ sign.

>>16909608
Do the Japs even use sen anymore? Most of us white folk don't know that sen even existed.

>>16909593

ummm, no sweatie

I've been ordering kungpow chicken from my local chinese eatery EVERY thursday for the better part of a decade now, so I'm pretty sure I know a thing or too about chinese :)

>>16909608
i see that now
https://www.inflationtool.com/japanese-yen

hahahah they dont post what it was before 1956....must have been an impressive leap post war.
https://newworldeconomics.com/japan-the-yen-1914-1941/
in 1915 it was 50 american cents per yen....so prewar yen was massively higher value...was also made of silver then.
so this menu would be post ww1 pre ww2 likely 1930s

>>16909618
I have to agree with the prior anon, that's Japanese and yeah there's a yen symbol at the top right.

>>16909605
The value of the yen versus the US dollar dropped sharply at the end of the 19th century, coninciding with the devaluation of silver. (Japan used the bimetallic gold and silver standard initially.)
In 1897, Japan adopted the gold standard instead, which fixed the value of ¥1 to $0.50 US.
Eventually, they dropped the gold standard in the 30s, which alongside rampant wartime inflation caused a massive devaluation of the yen. Under the post-war US occupation, the exchange was set at ¥360 to $1 US.

>>16909613
Sen coinage was discontinued and declared to no longer be legal tender in the 50s. They adopted a rounding system to deal with any existing fractional yen prices and debts.

>>16909657
>In 1897, Japan adopted the gold standard instead, which fixed the value of ¥1 to $0.50 US.

dude i posted a link and conversion tool i know....
:)
>>16909630

>>16909630
>so prewar yen was massively higher value...was also made of silver then.
What coinage was made of didn't matter at the time. What mattered was what the currency was backed by. Japan dropped silver in 1897 in exchange for a currency based in gold. The silver yen coin was demonetized in favour of the gold yen coin.
This change in standards locked their value with the US dollar until they eventually dropped the gold standard as well in 1931.

>>16909668
https://www.xe.com/ is good for modern conversions but I've never seen it do historical ones as far back as 1900.

>>16909668
You type like a faggot, so I just assumed you were retarded.

>>16909690
Potty mouth!

>>16909605
>>16909565
>>16909604
all of you have target fixation. Calpis is on that menu and it was first offered in 1919.

>>16909706

>>16909690
how does one type like a faggot,kike
did you go off script for to long rabbi?
will the IDF still pay you for that post ?

Get a load of this, 15¢ burgers.

>>16909721
The people in the past must have had great eyesight. That looks so blurry to me.

What is inflation?

>>16909759
Yeah I noticed that also, I might be able to sharpen that with Irfanview.

>>16909764
dobsons raison d'être

>>16909759
This might be a little better.