The Wasp — 1894 — page 446: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising** for various San Francisco businesses (breweries, laundries, brushes, wine). The main cartoon, titled "The Latest Dish," depicts a dining scene with two men and a waiter. The dialogue reveals the satire: a patron asks the waiter to prepare "Garibaldi smell" (referencing Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian nationalist hero). The waiter questions what "Garibaldi smell" is, and subsequent exchanges mock pretentious dining culture by treating an Italian hero's name as if it were an exotic food item. The joke appears to satirize both **fashionable restaurant pretension** and the tendency to exoticize foreign names without understanding their actual significance. The cartoon mocks diners who might order unfamiliar-sounding dishes merely to appear sophisticated.