What the FILTHY Rich Ate While Families Starved in the 1920s

In the Roaring Twenties, the dinner table was the ultimate battleground of class.

We dive into the obscene menus of the New Aristocracy of the 1920s—the stock market millionaires and bootleggers who bought status with shocking waste. At the Waldorf-Astoria, a single meal could cost $7,000 in today's money, featuring the legendary Rôti Sans Pareil—a grotesque 17-bird roast—and $850 strawberries in the dead of winter. The excess wasn't about taste; it was about proving you belonged.

But three miles north, the other half of America was doing impossible math. We explore the reality of the working-class kitchen: watered-down milk, potato soup, and the humiliation of the breadline. The poverty itself made everything more expensive, and the media ignored the economic suicide of a nation that let its children starve.

This is the untold story of the decade's greatest moral failure, and how the massive food divide was the first crack in the foundation that led directly to the Great Depression.

The party looked amazing. But you wouldn't last until midnight.

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