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Posted by NaOH 8 hours ago

The Classic American Diner(blogs.loc.gov)
155 points | 99 commentspage 2
tuvix 7 hours ago|
Visited Portland, Maine recently and ate at Becky’s Diner there. What a wonderful place, the food was just what you would expect when walking in (and I mean that in the best way).

It made me lament the lack of old school diners where I live. Sometimes you just need a perfectly cooked breakfast and some solid coffee!

sgtaylor5 5 hours ago||
https://franksdiners.com

just looking at the video makes me hungry.

acheron 6 hours ago||
Worcester, MA has several classic old diners still. Some used to be manufactured there, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Lunch_Car_Company
m-s-y 4 hours ago||
Not a single picture of a diner in Worcester, MA? For shame.
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 2 hours ago|
Probably gave up when the speech to text kept butchering the spelling.
ButlerianJihad 6 hours ago||
If you want to dine in an actual railcar, visit the Old Spaghetti Factory!

https://www.osf.com/

dfxm12 1 hour ago||
I think "diner" should be a protected term that has to meet certain criteria, like Kentucky Strait Bourbon.

A diner should only be able to legally call itself a diner if it's open 24/7, has a glass case showing slices of its desserts, offers breakfast, lunch and dinner all day, and if you order spaghetti, your server yells back to the kitchen for "a mile of rope".

thenipper 6 hours ago||
Oh nice. I remember miss bellows falls from growing up!
mech422 1 hour ago|
yeah - growing up in Claremont NH, right across the connecticut river from Vermont, it was cool to see a few 'local' places in the article
contingencies 6 hours ago||
I did a lot of research in to the evolution of US fast food culture recently, from a technology angle. If anyone would be interested in a run-down I might put together a video starting ~19th century and moving to present.
woohin 5 hours ago||
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