The Profligate Pastry-Cook's Product:Postcard Boomtown Rats poster

Boomtown Rats poster

Mr Gladstone had reduced income tax by 1 penny in the pound

A coach and horses moves off down the drive

View of the Old General Post Office on the east side of St Martin's le Grand

A 1955 Ford Thunderbird

The Profligate Pastry-Cook's Product:Postcard Boomtown Rats poster'The Profligate Pastry Cook's', 1860. This cartoon depicts a family of elderly mother, daughter and daughter's young children, taking lunch in a restaurant. This represents the typical middle class family. However, Punch is poking fun at the typical middle class family who waste their money on French foods, such as veal and wine. Many things French, particularly literature, were at the time considered to be full of immorality, and, it appears, their