1931 breakfast menu from the MORRO CASTLE

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A breakfast menu from the MORRO CASTLE from Sunday, December 27, 1931. The breakfast offerings are generous, and most are familiar American breakfast items. One surprising item might be sauerkraut juice for breakfast, but that is a traditional Eastern European hangover cure. Clam juice also was considered a hangover cure. Prohibition was still in effect in the U.S. in 1931, and the MORRO CASTLE's cruises from New York to Cuba were popular in large part as opportunities for a lot of drinking, since the law was not applicable outside U.S. waters. Particularly on a Sunday morning in the week between Christmas and New Year's, there were undoubtedly some passengers who had overindulged the night before. In the upper right, someone has written table numbers from the Morro Castle and its sister ship, the Oriente. Perhaps this was a souvenir for someone who had traveled on both ships.