The following story comes from a WPA Louisiana folder from the America Eats records located in The archives of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. I have produced the content in a paraphrased format when necessary to make it legible and indirect quotes as often as possible.
Vegetable Soup
During the Great Depression vegetable soup had been a popular and inexpensive weekday meal in New Orleans. You would go to the market and purchase a piece of brisket for 25 cents and a soup bunch (a bundle of vegetables sold for the purpose of making soup) for 10 cents. One would serve the soup separately either as a hot or cold dish. Sometimes the server placed the vegetable from the soup around cheap cut of beef. With this came a salad, French bread and butter, a bottle of claret, and coffee.
