8 Track Mind* Collides With 1 Track Mind**!
Eggs all over the tracks! And not over easy.
From the fifties. From Malcolm Riviera, ephemera king.
(*That would be Malcolm himself, 8 track maven. Maven sounds like a word that should apply only to women, but I know for a fact that it is unisex.
** And me, 1 track mind often, food food food food food food food.)
I love the quiet understatement of Woolworth’s menu. Just two exclamation points. “For a real treat!” and “You will like it!” It will be real and I will like it. Such containment of emotion and frugality of exuberance must be admired. The line HAVE A COKE GOES GOOD WITH FOOD is pure poetry.
!!No shortage of enthusiasm at Shenandoah Plaza!! Eleven, count ’em, eleven exclamation points!! Diced ham emerged in egg and covered by fluffy egg! Emerged? That’s right, emerged!Onion, tomato, ham, cheese and fresh peppers all hidden in the delectable egg exterior! Emerged in egg and delectable egg exterior? Premium bologna! Fascinating.
Sandwiched between a fresh English muffin! Very mysterious stuff indeed. All in one menu, all at one plaza. All in the middle of what looked to be nowhere. East Ohio. So much earnest effort pressed into this menu copy, it could bend your heart. It was a forlorn place, with a tough soul.
Could the package below be more self-effacing? “We are just croutons. Just cubes. Don’t mind us.” Wouldn’t want to overpower the personality of iceberg. Plenty of quiet drama in the kitchens of Interstate 70.
The Lunch Encounter 