there were certain recklessness is often necessary before one can make one up's mind, robert putnan who was the founder of the california chicken company decided to send the vendors out in the clean, white uniform rather than in the mexican outfits that the other vendors were wearing and this way they would seem more higenic, somehow seeing them in a clean outfit made them think that they actually had chicken. and this is famous for being the birth place of pisco punch from the gold rush days, ships came to san francisco under the bottom of south america and as they passed peru the ships would restock there at the point of pisco and one of the things that they would get would be the white grape brandy which was called after the port that it came from. and pisco brandy had a very harsh edge to it and it was suitable at the time for the frontier town that was san francisco during these gold rush days, but at the end of the gold rush, a second wave of mining wealth hit san francisco and there is a discovery of silver over in the load in nevada, and the city's gold rush dining cuisine had b