@InspectorCaracal i know of some old sears and roebuck catalogues that have been scanned and are up for browsing online, but i'll deffo let you know what i'm able to niffle up myself when i get the spoons to do so

despite ffxiv not having a firm period to reference - uh, emphatically so, lol - i still feel the need to be AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE, since i'm redoing my old rp cafe as a small takeaway place (and half the fancy menu is straight Mrs Beeton- http://bit.ly/bunclestail )

@wigglytuffitout OH

WELL

If you want bar references, I do have SOMEthing for you

https://ash-nyc.com/links-and-more/behind-bars

@InspectorCaracal ooooo, thank you!!!

i think i'm gonna redo it as less of a bar, more of a like... takeaway place

but i am absolutely keeping the adapted chatham artillery punch in there somewhere LMAO. the recipe in here is actually pared down to be less boozy than the one i was working off of (!), but i still feel like, living in georgia, I Gotta Get It In There https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/07/chatham-artillery-punch-maybe-the-strongest-drink.html

@wigglytuffitout 🤔

I don't think takeaway was much of a thing in Victorian-era England

@InspectorCaracal you might be surprised! takeaway restaurants have been a thing in ancient rome on up - it's just that it was more of a street food thing, and that doesn't get as well documented. there was also the fairly common practice of people selling leftovers more or less, on like a really small cottage industry scale.

i could definitely manage patterns off regular menus and restaurant adverts, tho, if i find a repository of them