from Roy B. Clarkson's description of a logging camp in West Virginia circa 1909:

A typical evening meal consisted of boiled or roast beef or pork or steak, turnips, hanovers, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, hash, "light" bread or corn bread, and two different kinds of pie ( quartered) and cake and cookies. The men were encouraged to eat all they wanted, and at the end o a hard day's work their appetites were prodigious...

A typical breakfast consisted of hot biscuits, steak ( well done or rare) fried eggs, fried potatoes, oatmeal, cake, donuts, prunes or other fruit, and coffee. It was not uncommon for a man to eat half a dozen eggs along with generous helps of other "vittles"...

One of the ways the men had of relieving the boredom of their existence was to invent nicknames for each other and for the objects around them. Thus, biscuits were "cat-heads", donuts were "fried holes" or "doorknobs", meat was "sow-belly" or "long-hog", light bread was "punk", milk was "cow" or "white line", sugar was "sand train", prunes were "Rocky Mt. Huckleberries", coffee was "java or "Arbuckles", apple butter was "Pennsylvania Salve", cooks were called "boilers", women cooks were rare but were called "she-boilers" or "Open bottom cooks".

Tumult on the Mountains (1964) p.63-65

Clarkson said nothing about lunch, but you suspect that there was enough consumed in two meals to equal three, and that if a man stuffed something into his pocket at breakfast for a noon break nothing would be said.. He also noted that a good cook made about $3.00 a day, and the loggers $1.75 to $2.00: but the cook worked seven days a week.

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