What Duluth Men Want for Thanksgiving

"It's quantity I'm after when it comes to the dinner proposition." -- Howard T. Abbott

"W.E. McEwen, of the Labor World, also confesses to a weakness for the young turkey."

Keep him out of the chat rooms.

Folks sure loved their celery, oysters and mince pie back in the day.

Yeah, what's up with the celery?

Black winter radishes, marachino cherries, and grapefruit, milk-fed chicken ... thanks, Paul, that was a fun read. Wonder what the women of Duluth wanted to eat?

Our family recipe for cranberry salad uses celery.

It's too bad all the American chestnut trees have gone extinct. I'd like to try some chestnut dressing.

I wonder if the celery predilection is related to the great quantity grown by Hartley in his fields and sold locally. 

Also, whatever happened to plum pudding? Does anybody in America eat plum pudding anymore?

I get celery stuck in my teeth. Does anyone else have that problem with celery?

hbh: My family has always eaten a dish similar to plum pudding called "moon pudding." Like a lot of holiday puddings, it's made of sweetened suet which is wrapped in a cloth and boiled for a long time (I think more than an entire day.) Our version also has raisins in it.

Chester Creek House (13th and 2nd) was the Freimuth family mansion.

I like Mr. McEwen's preference for the "old fashioned" brown sauce.

I've read Craigslist. I know what Duluth men like to eat, and it ain't no hen.