What does soup at a dairy restaurant look like?

Tomato?

I don't know if it's Jewish or Kosher or whatever, but this is what my mother cooked all the time when I was a kid - milk soup with spaghetti.

Super interesting! I've never had milk soup

where the quote is from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_...

Neat!

Notably, originally from a 1965 Esquire article

the most stabbable man in history

Did Kamenev and Zinoviev ever work as waiters early in their careers? It's probably symptomatic of how they and Stalin outmanoeuvred him out of the leadership and out of the USSR.

Wait Trotsky was just Mr Pink this whole time?

You know, I'm something of a Trotskyite myself

Interesting to recognize the plaster’s soul was in a guy before posting had even been invented

Poaster!

I'm not condoning it but if I was that waiter I might have hired a guy to go to Mexico City with an icepick

Trotsky's fall from power had less to do with Stalin being a master politicker frankly and more to do with all the other Old Bolshevik's thinking Leon was an asshole.

Have we checked if Ramón Mercader ever worked at that place?

Trotsky was truly one of the New Types of Guys

He would love the Internet

Excellent work, waiters who spilled soup on him

he was basically right about the idea of tipping but uhhhh, Trotsky, man, did you ever stop to consider the implications of getting other people not to tip *before* you had got living wages

I like to imagine Trotsky threw himself into building the Red Army with such ferocity because he couldn’t forget the waiter who spilled borscht on him once in the Bronx

Could've at least tipped them a copy of the 'ol manifesto

A signed copy from Trotsky, that thing would be worth a shit ton in 2025. Think about that, proletariat.

Being basically right in the least useful sort of way is kind of core to the ideology, though.

he was always a "break a few million eggs to make an omelette" pilled.

That’s one way to foment revolution… or to die at the hands of enraged waiters. 😂

No he wasn’t it’s obviously better for the workingman’s independence for his income to not be entirely dependent on a single external source like an employer or the government and the only reason people think otherwise is because of an irrational phobia against solving issues through civil society.

I did some research, I believe this is meant to be 1559 Wilkins Ave, Bronx, NY. According to Ben Katchor's "The Dairy Restaurant" (Pantheon, 2020) it's on Wilkins ave, which is one block located just east of Crotona Park. The images available on 1940s.nyc offer one likely corner, now demolished.

But Leon you still went to the restaurant knowing they didn't offer a living wage

Trotsky was an accelerationist.

Refused to tip out of principle, or was he just a big cheapskate?

AFAIR he wasn't a favourite at Cafe Central in Vienna either, so maybe the latter.

I obviously didn't know Trotsky, but my personal survey of everyone I've ever met who doesn't tip "out of principle" definitely suggests the latter.

I mean this is also Leon Trotsky, big advocate of party discipline and following the central committee until he was an outsider, when he coincidentally decided what the party needed was openness and democracy. Cheapskate tracks.