NEW "DELIKATESSEN."

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1915, Page 12 (Supplement)

NEW "DELIKATESSEN."

WHALE FLESH " OMELETTES." The manifold mysteries of a German sausage have formed a staple food for joking for many years past, But the composition of the homely wurst—palatable and pleasant enough, whatever may ave been inside it—will henceforth rank as a mere nothing compared with the chemical delicacies German experts are now offering to a hungry public. A firm at Rittersrausse,'Berlin, spreads great big advertisements across the pages of the local papers to announce that it has artificial omelettes, butter, honey, marmalade, coffee and milk for sale in any quantities, and guarantees that no one could ever know that they were not absorbing the real thing. A chemist in the suburb of Charlottenburg advertises egg-powder, a pennyworth of which is sufficient to replace two real eggs. Another offers a starch syrup as agreeable as it is nutritive. But the best offer of all is reserved for contractors providing the meals for prisoners of war. "Why buy expensive butcher's meat," runs the advertisement, "when whale's flesh can be had instead? It is nicer, better and more nourishing than any other meat, and only costs 30i a ewt." Bcrhners are said to be thriving on all delicacies, which, taken with K.K. bread, and washed down with the new war beer, constitute a meal fit for any patriot bent on sacrificing himself for the welfare of the Fatherland.