Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 385179)

And pie. It's got to have pie.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 385165)

Tomorrow is the election in NY's 20th CD (birthplace of your's truly and 2 US Presidents, and home to a ton of 19th Century Robber Barrons).

Originally Posted by Snidely Condescending (Post 385186)

I've been there to take the waters (during race season, bien sur). Perhaps the true measure of how the mighty have fallen is that the candidate of the Party of Elihu Root is a carpetbagging Son of Garibaldi instead of the descendant of a Patroon.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 385179)

And pie. It's got to have pie.

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 385182)

The "real" diners I know aren't that cheap because they don't have the buying power of a Dennys or IHOP. But they are old time small town diners. There are even some of those here in the big (for MN) city.

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller (Post 385177)

Can you get 2 eggs, 2 pancakes, 2 sausage, 2 toast and hash browns for $2.99? Then it ain't a "real" diner.

Originally Posted by Greedyx3 (Post 385177)

And pie. It's got to have pie.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 385165)

Tomorrow is the election in NY's 20th CD (birthplace of your's truly and 2 US Presidents, and home to a ton of 19th Century Robber Barrons). The great thing about NY 20 (since this is the FB not the PB) - the big campaign stops are almost all diners. As I read it, the two candidates and their surrogates visited about 5 diners yesterday. Where else but upstate NY can you find so many diners left - with people in them?

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 385178)

A classic diner is a stand-alone building.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 385178)

I believe a TCOTU one was in After Hours, and maybe Stand Up?

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 385192)

Why?

There are a few stand-alones still here, but diners are about the food, decor and likelihood they're open when you're shit-faced and need some greasy food.

TM

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 385191)

They're all over NJ. They tend to be wonderful -- cheap, huge portions, food that ranges from pretty good to really good, and (at the good ones) 25 kinds of pie and cake, that they serve in slices approximately the size of a highway off-ramp.

You have to overlook the fat guys in sweatsuits who look like Soprano casting-call washouts.

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 385193)

Steak n Shake?

I actually love SnS.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 385194)

1- you honor the guidos, not overlook them
2- you can tell your ass is from SF- there aren't 25 pies/cake flavors a man will eat. no offense.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 385196)

1 Apple
2 Chocolate
3 Coconut
4 Pecan
5 Blueberry
6 Key lime
7 Lemon
8 Pumpkin
9 Cherry
10 Banana or banana cream
11 Raspberry
12 Blackberry
13 Strawberry
14 French Silk
15 Oreo
16 Snickers
17 Grasshopper
18 Peanut Butter
19 Squash
20 Sweet Potato

I think Hank is right on this one. I can't think of any more (without exhausting the berry universe).

TM

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 385195)

I've had this conversation with RB here. I love Steak n Shake. My cousin recently got married in the mid-west and I think I flew out there more for the trips to Steak n Shake than to attend the wedding.

TM

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 385195)

I've had this conversation with RB here. I love Steak n Shake. My cousin recently got married in the mid-west and I think I flew out there more for the trips to Steak n Shake than to attend the wedding.

TM