I’ve had the above image in the files for ages. As you can possibly see from the bigger version below, it’s a wartime ad for the Milwaukee Road station which appears to be in Aberdeen, in the heart of South Dakota’s pheasant country. That sounds like a lot of miscellaneous geographical references, but that’s not my area. The rest of the ad says they serve 20,000 pheasant sandwiches a month to servicemen, which is a lot of pheasants.
And it so happened that my local Co-op apparently over-bought their supply of pheasant breasts, and were selling them off cut price, so I snapped up a couple. No, I did not panic buy.
And I thought of doing something fancy with them but couldn’t decide what, and in the end I fried them up and went for a pheasant sandwich, so that I could feel solidarity with the brave lads in South Dakota, some seventy odd years ago.
