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[Great read, thanks /samclemens!]

The menus are out of control!

True. Altough that is the menu of a special event. The annual Game Dinner at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago.

You probably shouldn’t expect Antelope Steak there everyday.

In the middle of the 19th century, the US was known as a place where animals were in such abundance that you could get an incredible variety of meats. Check out The Market Assistant: https://books.google.com/books?id=2z4EAAAAYAAJ&printsec=fron...

The game section is where the goods are, and starts getting good around page 123

With a 15x smaller (human) US population in 1850 compared to today that makes sense.