HOLY TOLEDO, MEAT MAN!

The New Toledo “10” Slicer is ten ways better for topmost performance wherever food is served. It is a compact, space-saving machine designed to do a big job. Cleaning is extra easy.

Toledo Scale Corporation
Kitchen Machine Division
Rochester, New York 

FAUX MEAT

VEAL BONERS

Preserved Through The Miracle of Quick Freezing

ONLY DAIRY TYPE CALVES USED IN OUR PRODUCTS

ROBERT LIEBERMAN
Veal Boners and Processors
404 West 13th St., New York 14, N.Y.
Brooklyn Plant:
177 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, N.Y.

FOR MEAT APPEAL - TRY VEAL

CAPTION CONTEST—Meat Man

1/17/12  9:56 PM:

Thank you for your captions! First, here’s what’s on the verso:

BOYLE’S ROYAL ROUND. Magnificent buffet showpiece…deliciously different taste!…Boyle’s Royal Round makes any buffet a regal fest—and at comparatively lower cost per serving. No wonder it’s the talk of chefs and after buffet-dinner speakers everywhere!

BOYLE’S FAMOUS CORNED BEEF CO., Kansas City, Mo. 

The winner is Tracy for the caption:

“Do NOT make fun of the hat, or you’re next.”

Congratulations, Tracy To claim your postcard prize, email me at bad.postcards@gmail.com with your choice of postcard from the list below and your mailing address.

The RULES
1) MAXIMUM of FIFTEEN (15) WORDS
2) One entry per person
3) Please enter your caption in the comments of this post
4) Submissions will be accepted until Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 8:00 PM EST

The author of my favorite caption will have their choice of one of these original vintage postcards (all previously published on BAD POSTCARDS):

EAT MY MEAT, COWBOY!

Meat Meet 1968’s Miss Nebraska Stock Grower, Ann Coffee, Harrison, Nebraska, Convention Queen of the Meat Meet.

NEBRASKA BEEF—THE ALL-AMERICAN CHOICE

Nebraska, home of the famous Sandhills, ranks second among the states in beef cattle production…second in cattle feeding…third in cattle numbers. Since its origin in 1888, NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION members have shared the responsibility to promote, foster and protect NEBRASKA’S BEEF CATTLE INDUSTRY.

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE…

…between a steak and a salad.

Marion-Kay, The House of Flavors, Brownstown, Indiana
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2 POUND “T” BONE
Happy New York City Restaurant Week

Here’s your 2 pound “T” Bone. What? Broccoli? Nope. Don’t serve no vegetables here. What? Oh yeah, the fingernails. I been shovelin’ cow shit all mornin’. 

Verso:
”PINNACLE PEAK PATIO
Cooked the way you “want em”.
Full 2 lb. “T” Bone steak, deliciously cooked over open mesquite wood fire. Served with salad, cowboy beans, bread and butter. Cocktails, cold beer and wines for completely dining pleasure. 21 miles northeast of Scottsdale, Arizona.”

Don’t forget to bring your STEAK CHART!

CHECK THE WAY YOU LIKE IT
Happy New York City Restaurant Week

STEAK CHART
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Print this out, enlarged if possible.
2. Bring it with you to the restaurant.
3. Show the waitperson how you want your steak, displaying the chart conspicuously.
4. Your friends at the table and other diners nearby will ask to see the Steak Chart. They will want one.
5. Tell them where you got it: BAD POSTCARDS!

Verso:
“Visit our new MERRY MAN TAVERN. Specialty Room done in early Ohio tradition, warm and hospitable. Charcoal broiled steaks, your selection, from the open hearth. Complete luncheon and dinner menus…at our popular prices. ALSO…TOWN ROOM COFFEE SHOP, Sheraton Hotel, Akron, Ohio.” 

THAT’S A BUNCH OF BOLOGNA!

Verso:
“WEAVERS FAMOUS LEBANON BOLOGNA, Lebanon, Pennsylvania
A part of our Parcel Post Department, where orders are processed and shipped to all parts of the world.”

BRATWURST CAPITAL of the WORLD

Amana Colonies. Amana Meat Shop. Amana, Iowa.

“Bratwurst making at the 100 year old meat shop.”

I think they mean the shop is 100 years old. Not the meat.

STEAK VAULT

Verso: “ALLENHURST (hallmark of delightful dining). This distinctive restaurant and cocktail lounge, known throughout New England for its superior prime steaks and roast beef and for famous ocean fresh lobsters, is situated on Route 114, Danvers, Mass., midway between U.S. Route 1 and Route 128, and only a few minutes drive from either of these important highways. Color photo on front of card shows Mine Hose S. C. Adams personally selecting blue ribbon steaks for ALLENHURST diners. Colonial dining room, Function Room and “Whittier’s Well” (lounge) are air-conditioned and charmingly decorated. Organ music nightly.”

GEORGE DIAMOND CHARCOAL BROILED STEAKS
Milwaukee, Chicago, Antioch
Happy NYC Restaurant Week (#10) 

Verso: “A picturesque view of George Diamond preparing a steak before one of his open charcoal broilers. A full steak dinner starts at $1.95.”

One more card in honor of NYC Restaurant Week tomorrow—and it’s a real NYC restaurant!

TURKEY CAKE

I’m still having issues with this card.

It advertises Wetzstein’s ALL WHITE MEAT COOKED TURKEY with Natural Juices. Printed on verso: “For information Ask Your Dealer Or Write To: PREMIER SMOKED MEATS, INC. 85 North 6th Street, Brooklyn 11, N.Y., EVergreen 7-3555.” (Yeah, Brooklyn!!!)

I zoomed in for you in the second picture. Look closely.

When I first saw this I thought, “did this come out of the can like this?” The loaf has been cut in half the long way and that half has been cut into thin slices and arranged to cascade down alongside hors d’œuvre units sitting at the edge of the platter.

It seems unlikely, but it looks like each slice of meat is embedded with a slice of avocado and a polished black stone at the center, and a slice of orange next to it. It would make more sense that someone topped each turkey slice with the avocado and orange slices and placed the stone in the middle, but it doesn’t look that way in the picture.

However, what is most bizarre to me is that it appears like the other loaf half is covered with cake frosting with sugar flower decorations! What’s that about? Nowhere on the card does it say “serving suggestion.”

I had an aunt who had a favorite cold cut. I think she called it “variety loaf.” It was some kind of processed meat mixed with bits of olive, pimento and I can’t remember what else. Kind of like a meat fruit cake. This, however, is going too far.

TOMORROW: The Colonial Room in Scotty’s City Drug Store. Where dining is a pleasure and Turkey Cake is always on the menu.