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[John Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Is that even a pie? It's more like sponge cake with some whipped cream and chocolate.

If it's in a tin with a crust, it's a pie.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

Hmm. Diners are about the architecture in California. Or at least partially so. There are lots of local diner chains in LA. Most are known by the shape of their buildings. And then there's always the old diner buildings that are defunct as diners but are kept around for use as filming locations. Yeah, LA is odd.

Mmmm, the Peach Pit.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by John Phoenix

If it's in a tin with a crust, it's a pie.

Sure, Ogre.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Is that even a pie? It's more like sponge cake with some whipped cream and chocolate.

What about combo pies? Apple-Rhubarb? Peach and some berry? This place alone has 6 apple pies, and hordes more of other ones.

here http://www.sextoyfun.com/prod_info.p...pnum=SE1785-00

is a store selling pocket pussies. if you buy one it doesn't mean you're having real sex though.

[dtb]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

Do they permit the cut direct?

Permit?!? It's a requirement! You must be from out of town.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Is that even a pie? It's more like sponge cake with some whipped cream and chocolate.

What about combo pies? Apple-Rhubarb? Peach and some berry? This place alone has 6 apple pies, and hordes more of other ones.

Other than Strawberry Rhubarb, the combos are specialties and only show up every now and then.

A good diner may rotate their selection, but they're only going to put out five or six pies a day. Because they make them themselves and serve them fresh. Even if their gravy might come out of a can.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

no. a "classic diner" is a stand alone building built to look not unlike a large streamlined car. rent Diner. watch Diner. then you will know what a diner is- I guarantee the Fell's Point diner isn't serving "double creme lemon" pie, or Oreo.

St. Paul:

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Adder

St. Paul:

looks right- but the burgers have to be less than $5. also, try ordering tea- if they bring out a lipton's bag you're there- a box of options, not so much.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

looks right- but the burgers have to be less than $5. also, try ordering tea- if they bring out a lipton's bag you're there- a box of options, not so much.

No prices on the menu, but sadly there seems to be a reference to herbal tea.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

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

I really want to open one up in the city near Wrigley. I think it would rake.

According to their website, the following are the basic requirements:

• Successful multi-unit restaurant or retail operations experience;
• Net worth greater than $1.5 million;
• Liquid assets greater than $500,000;
• Ability to develop free standing restaurant.

Who's with me?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

Shit. Even a mediocre chain like Marie Callender's has 25 kinds of pie.

Repeats.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

So, you include Perkins and Embers as "diners"?

I dunno. Can you get a big breakfast for $3.00?

(I don't know a damn thing about Perkins or Embers. But I know under your definition, Denny's probably qualifies.)

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I dunno. Can you get a big breakfast for $3.00?

(I don't know a damn thing about Perkins or Embers. But I know under your definition, Denny's probably qualifies.)

TM

I can't think of a real diner I've been in in a town of more than about 40,000 people. I'm sure there are some - particularly in some of the larger blue collar small cities. The places some of you are thinking of are coffee shops, not diners. Here's one from the 20th:





I think Hank and I must have a couple years on the rest of you. You've all never known diners. It's food, architecture, ambiance. I remember back in 6th grade riding on our bikes down to the diner to buy my neighbor, Jill, some pie and her first cup of coffee with my paper route money. I was a bad influence, what with the Joe and the Diner (motorcycles parked out front). I don't know if she even realized it was a date. But it was the beginning of a lasting relationship between me and the diner.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

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

I said "pies and cakes", not "pies."

As for pies, you missed several obvious ones -- like Boston Creme, Peach, and (in the right part of the country) Shoo-fly.

I would need to add cakes to the list to come up with 25 I would eat, because Oreo and Snickers don't belong on any sane person's list. What's next -- the Whatchamacallit pie? The Baby Ruth?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

The places some of you are thinking of are coffee shops, not diners.

You are mainly correct.

TM