"Those blood dinners?"  From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.

"They seldom had anything on the Table except Chicken with Gravy, Salt Rising Bread, Milk, Seven or Eight Vegetables, Crulls, Cookies, Apple Butter, Whortleberry Pie, Light Biscuit, Spare Ribs, Pig's Feet, Hickory Nut Cake and Such Like."  From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.

From Earlham College's 1923 yearbook.

Cute candle lettering.  From the Peace Institute's 1913 yearbook.

From Otterbein's 1911 yearbook.

Yeah, we've had that meal ... only they never did bring any of those little moist finger towels, and we were like, WTF?  From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.

Not knowing there'd be olives and pickles, we foolishly turned down two invitations to college banquets.  From Castleton's 1966 yearbook.

The first time we were invited to a banquet, this is what we imagined.  We should have gone.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.

An inverted table, its legs in the air, hosts this "topsy-turvy banquet in London."  From Popular Mechanics, 1914.

"A scarlet company—devils, demons, witches."  From Pearson's, 1897.