{"id":15831,"date":"2017-10-27T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15831"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:55:50","slug":"zeppelin-food-was-basically-nazi-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/zeppelin-food-was-basically-nazi-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeppelin Food Was Basically Nazi Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/102317_0130_ZeppelinFoo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Natasha Frost wrote about food during the age of the zeppelin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zeppelins were slow. It&#8217;d take three days go get from South America to Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Passengers wiled the time away reading, looking out the window and, of course, eating.<\/li>\n<li>Meals were frequent and lavish. Guidelines required having 7.5 pounds (3.5 kg) of food per passenger per day.<\/li>\n<li>This required identifying weight savings elsewhere \u2013 one tactic was to provide travelers with a single napkin when they first boarded, and requiring them to use it for the entire journey.<\/li>\n<li>The food was poorly reviewed by American and British passengers. It was quintessentially German \u2013 heavy on meat, with little in the way of vegetables.<\/li>\n<li>This suited the Germans that ran the zeppelins just fine. They saw their airships as the height of luxury and a symbol of German ingenuity.<\/li>\n<li>The Zeppelins were to usher in a new era of German cultural dominance \u2013 and imposing German cuisine on the world&#8217;s elite was a point of pride for people like Goebbels \u2013 who invested in them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/zeppelin-hindenburg-dining-food-aviation-blimp\">Atlas Obscura<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Frost wrote about food during the age of the zeppelin: Zeppelins were slow. It&#8217;d take three days go get from South America to Europe. Passengers wiled the time away reading, looking out the window and, of course, eating. Meals were frequent and lavish. Guidelines required having 7.5 pounds (3.5 kg) of food per passenger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/102317_0130_ZeppelinFoo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15852,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions\/15852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}