I can see no way to add a comment to a vote, so I'm using the Forum to comment. I admit I have not yet finished reading the story, but I wanted to tell the author a tale not well known. He has the narrator's father propose a meal based on the last meal served on the Titanic before the collision with the iceberg.
If he is interested, he can have a meal in contemporary replica of the Titanic's dining room at The White Swan in Alnwick, in Northumberland.
In the 1930's, an enterprising owner of The White Swan bought the complete dining room, the staircase and the foyer of the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, prior to it being broken up for scrap and had it installed in his hotel. It is still there today, just as it was it was on the Titanic.
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