I've got a couple more memories of "Road Food" - the first one is mine and the second is my dad's. Anyone remember Thrifty's ice cream? My favorite was mint chocolate chip - but I always got a kick out of the fact that they used a cylindrical scoop! The second memory is my dad's - in the '40's, when he was a youngster, his mother (widowed) moved him and his two brothers from the East Coast to California. At one of those nameless little diners along the way, the waitress wrapped her hand around his younger brother's arm and said "Yor lookin' porely, son." I'm assuming she made sure he got a good meal!

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