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Sundown Restaurant, Meat & Three, and the Meaning of Life Fast Food v. Comfort Food I go to McDonald’s and Burger King on occasion.   What else are you going to do when you’re on the road and you have to dash in for some food?   They are pretty good; they’re clean, and you know what you’re getting.   I don’t know why anyone would think I always dine on hummingbird’s tongues or something.     –Julia Child I have a soft spot in my heart for McDonald's, my second job in food service.  In the fall of 1967, a hamburger was 18 cents and fries were 15 cents.  The most exotic menu item, the Guppy burger (fish sandwich), was 35 cents.  We still used the milkshake machines that Ray Kroc sold before taking over McDonald's. [1]   In that remote, yet distant past, it was an all-boys workforce.  Women, then known as girls, were not hired at McDonald's until the summer of 1968, when they were allowed to work the lunch shift, but not at night, whe...
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Sundown Restaurant, Meat & Three, and the Meaning of Life Comfort Food Nothing will ever beat your mom's chicken, or meat loaf or whatever it was. No food can ever mean as much to you as that food once did. That is why most of all the cooking in the world is comfort food. It is food designed to remind us of familar things, to connect us with our personal histories and our communities and our families. That has always been true and it always will be true. --John Lanchester Nothing is more comfortable than a Southern meat & three restaurant. Like a diner in the Northeast, there's nothing on the menu you don't like, unless they try to slip in liver & onions. The only question is: do I want fried chicken or meat loaf? hamburger steak or pork chops? okra or butter beans. When I wrote the eulogy for my step-mother of 45 years, I said she was always made me fried chicken when I came home. Her chicken was over-cooked and dr...
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