Londonist: Time Machine

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Soho 1851: The Greatest Christmas Meal Ever Cooked
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Soho 1851: The Greatest Christmas Meal Ever Cooked

Christmas dinner for 22,500 hungry Victorians.

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It was, as the Observer noted, “The most extraordinary Christmas dinner that was ever partaken of in this metropolis.” 25 December 1851 saw four tonnes of cooked meat donated from a Soho courtyard, along with enough potatoes to balance your family car. In today’s Londonist: Time Machine, we look at perhaps the greatest act of Christmas charity ever unde…

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