Give us that brisket off the hook. Rawhead and bloody bones. Flayed glasseyed sheep hung from their haunches, sheepsnouts bloodypapered snivelling nosejam on sawdust. Given this context, it seems less remarkable though no less distasteful that in Barney Kiernan's pub in Cyclops the Citizen "cleared the spit out of his gullet and, gob, he spat a Red bank oyster out of him right in the corner.
In the cabman's shelter in Eumaeus, Murphy answers one of Bloom's questions by " simply letting spurt a jet of spew into the sawdust. The restaurants countered that they replaced sawdust daily and had never experienced problems with patrons becoming ill. I believe that restaurants are not allowed to use sawdust on the floors in the U. It seems that patrons who still long for that kind of atmosphere must content themselves with throwing peanut shells on the floor. Filed under atmosphere , decor , lunch rooms , restaurant controversies , sanitation.
Tagged as beer , male patrons , restaurant regulations , sawdust floors , steak houses , theme restaurants. There was an amazing bar in Tucson Arizona that had sawdust floors and a bumper pool table, but sadly it is no longer!
Another use would be to soak up tobacco juice, keeping the floor from getting slick and preventing drunk customers from falling. Not everyone obeyed spitting into a spittoon. I am quite interested in this!! Could you please provide some references that support your idea?
Thanks a lot! What exactly are you looking for? I used a very large number of articles to pull this together, most of them stories from newspaper archives with articles dating from the s into the s and later. Founded in , they relocated to their current location in Thanks for another great post.
I so enjoy your pieces. In this case, I remember quite well as a young girl in the 80s, my parents taking us to a restaurant, possibly in Delaware, and I was really intrigued by the sawdust on the floor. My parents, who always provided great background on our experiences, explained a bit about why it was there and how unusual this was.
Thank you, as always! I seem to recall going to some kind of restaurant in Chicago back in the early 70s that had a sawdust floor.
Interesting as always. Maybe my age is showing? Really glad to be living in Chicago again!! I remember a sandwich shop with red checked table cloths and sawdust floors.
A bar I frequented had sawdust floors, and free peanuts which they encouraged patrons to just drop the shells on the floor. Is that still done anywhere, or have current health codes outlawed that?
And how did that work, anyway; did they sweep up the old sawdust and put down new every day, or once a week, or just as needed?
I assume they sweep up at night. The peanut shells are all from customers and they do sweep them up during the day. It was also useful for those needing to throw up which I also remember. There was indeed a lot more spitting during my youth.
I presume it was due to the high tar cigarettes and general air pollution. I guess if everyone was breathing smoke from open fires, working in fume- and dust-filled industrial environments, and possibly dealing with lung damage from chemical weapons, it might have seemed odd not to spit.
As a young child, I can remember going out for walks with my grandfather, whom I adored. He would sometimes stop, clear his chest and then spit into the gutter, a disgusting looking greenish phlegm. Spitting is a revolting habit but, as your researches have uncovered, was once widespread.
Eating Stilton crawling with maggots sounds pretty nasty to me but was quite the done thing a couple of hundred years ago. I remember asking my Grandad what he thought of his new gas fire, installed after he became too frail to carry the coal buckets in. Blogging etiquette.
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