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title: '"Diner bij Oom Paul" (Dinner at Uncle Paul''s): Dutch postcard, Kruger serves Chamberlain Transvaal soup, c.1897'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dutch-kruger-transvaal-soup-1897/
description: 'Dutch lithograph postcard titled "Diner bij Oom Paul": a bearded Paul Kruger, spoon raised, offers a monocled man at left (Joseph Chamberlain, per LOC)…'
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# "Diner bij Oom Paul" (Dinner at Uncle Paul's): Dutch postcard, Kruger serves Chamberlain Transvaal soup, c.1897

Dutch lithograph postcard titled "Diner bij Oom Paul": a bearded Paul Kruger, spoon raised, offers a monocled man at left (Joseph Chamberlain, per LOC) more from a tureen labelled "Transvaalsche Soep", while a grotesque crowned figure between them eats; in the printed dialogue Chamberlain answers that it is not as tasty as he had thought. The tell: the guests are drawn as caricatures and the Transvaal is a dish the British guest finds hard to stomach (name-calling).

## Text on the object

Original (dutch) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Diner bij Oom Paul.
KRUGER: Wel Joe, lust je nog wat?
CHAMBERLAIN: Dankje, ze is lang zoo lekker niet als ik gedacht had.
[on the tureen:] TRANSVAALSCHE SOEP.
[left margin, vertical:] Uitg. van de Internationale Postkaarthandel, [street name illegible] 86 Arnhem.
[right margin, vertical:] Lith. van J.A. Luli & Co. Amsterdam
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Dinner at Oom Paul's.
KRUGER: Well, Joe, would you like some more?
CHAMBERLAIN: Thanks, it is not nearly as tasty as I had thought.
```

"ze" (she/it) is ambiguous in context; rendered "it", referring to the soup. Translation is FRAME's literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

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