March 19, 2025March 11, 2025 by zbicyclist Will the Cops Set Up a Steakout? CIDU Chon Day, The New Yorker 3 Comments JMcAndrew sends this in. Appeared April 24, 1943. Related
1943 was during WWII. Steaks were hard to come by and expensive due to wartime needs. Is the joke that the butcher had only one T-bone steak and not a whole freezer full?
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1943 was during WWII. Steaks were hard to come by and expensive due to wartime needs. Is the joke that the butcher had only one T-bone steak and not a whole freezer full?
Folks are doing this as an egg joke now.
Grand Theft Beef.
Black Market/ price controls/ rationing.