Hungry? Looking for something to eat?
Dine at the Long Island Diner!
Located conveniently across the street from Gatsby's Garage, Long Island Diner is the perfect place to get a taste of our generations most popular foods, and the perfect place to go after you drop off your car for maintenance!
Take a look at their menu: (at bottom of page)
Reflection/Reference: I created a diner's menu because I was interested in seeing the types of food Americans ate during the 1920s. I learned that restaurants became extremely popular during this decade as people's wages and standards of living rose. Another inspiration for a diner next door to a garage was from the character Michaelis, who owned the coffee shop next door to George WIlson's garage. Also, I was mainly inspired by the passages in The Great Gatsby that described the types of food the upper class people ate, especially at Gatsby's extravagant parties. "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pics and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors...(40)." Although the alcohol-filled parties during the time of prohibition, the high-end foods of the rich, and the wastefulness/carelessness of those people seemed interesting, I was more interested in what the rest of America was eating at the time. Obviously not every American had the privilege of eating such luxurious food, therefore, I wanted to research and learn about the more common foods and drinks. After my research, I have learned that the restaurant items in the 1920s is somewhat similar to that of today's American restaurants', only more simple. The 1920s was a decade of new brands, technology, and food - where everything was first experimented, and some of which have ended up here today.
Take a look at their menu: (at bottom of page)
Reflection/Reference: I created a diner's menu because I was interested in seeing the types of food Americans ate during the 1920s. I learned that restaurants became extremely popular during this decade as people's wages and standards of living rose. Another inspiration for a diner next door to a garage was from the character Michaelis, who owned the coffee shop next door to George WIlson's garage. Also, I was mainly inspired by the passages in The Great Gatsby that described the types of food the upper class people ate, especially at Gatsby's extravagant parties. "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pics and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors...(40)." Although the alcohol-filled parties during the time of prohibition, the high-end foods of the rich, and the wastefulness/carelessness of those people seemed interesting, I was more interested in what the rest of America was eating at the time. Obviously not every American had the privilege of eating such luxurious food, therefore, I wanted to research and learn about the more common foods and drinks. After my research, I have learned that the restaurant items in the 1920s is somewhat similar to that of today's American restaurants', only more simple. The 1920s was a decade of new brands, technology, and food - where everything was first experimented, and some of which have ended up here today.
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