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     Unless otherwise stated, prices given here are in British money for early 1930s.

Beer, Wines, Mixed Drinks, Cocktails and Spirits

     Beers are around 9p or 10p per half-liter glass.

     "Foreign" wines offered include Margaux (red), Graves (white), Pinot Brioni (white), Chateau Brioni (red), and Chateau Palugyay (a Slovakian wine in red or white versions), all at about 2s 5p per half-flask. Sparkling wines and champagnes available are Schlumberger Goldeck (12s per half-flask), Palugyay demi-Sec (8s per half-flask), and Pommery et Greno (£3 per bottle, or £1 12s for half-flask, 1920 vintage). Other liquor include Benedictine, Courvoisier Cognac, Cointreau, Grand Marnier, Johnnie Walker Whiskey (1s 3p per glass), Cinzano Vermouth, etc.. Various mineral waters are 8p per half-bottle.

Cigarettes and Cigars

     These change as you cross borders -- cigarette sales are strictly regulated, only available from specific sellers, and heavily taxed in most European countries. Brands in Austria for example are Egyptian, Khedive, Asta and Dames; prices are around 2s per 25 cigarettes in Austria.

     Cigar brands seem to be Virginia, Regalia, Graciosas, Kobenzl and Coronas, with the most expensive being Coronas at 1s.

Meals

     Besides coffee, tea, cocoa, and various snacks, sides dishes and appetizers (soup, toast, rolls, dessert and so forth) the main items for breakfast, lunch and dinner change each day. An example "full" breakfast for 5s:  small coffee (or tea or chocolate), cheese omelet, sausage with mustard, croissant, hash browns, and a small amount of some fruit. A light (European) breakfast of coffee/tea/cocoa with toast, butter and jam (or buttercake instead) costs 1s 6p.

     The fixed-price lunch is 5s for vegetable or fish soup, appetizer ("entree"), meat and potatoes, vegetables and dessert.

     The a la carte items include sardines (2 for 5p), 2 pork sausages with bread and mustard or horseradish (10p), breaded cutlet ("schnitzel", 2s 6p), ham and 2 eggs (1s 9p), beefsteak (2s 6p), cucumber salad (7p), ham (1s 9p), buttered trout (2s 6p), etc.