The Chapel Hill weekly., 1963-09-01
Bob Quincy


Fellow know says you can bet on only two things
with assurance W that the sun will RISE and ~ that
the sun will set
There is other which almost always pays off,
Recommend restaurant to friend and rest assured
he'll get lousy meal
Anticipation, without reserve, leads man to trouble
as surely walking into a mine field | offer an ex-
ample:
Some years ago. headed south to cover the major
league baseball camps Driving through Florida is an
exciting experience especially in the orange grove region
The smell of orange blossoms the thousands of oranges
hanging for pucking stirred man thoughts of drink
ing maybe gallon Of juice at the first stop perhaps
even taking orange juice bath.
The drugstore small and tidy. 1t had those old
fashioned tables the ones with glass tops with merchan
disc displayed beneath 1t was not air conditioned but
large fan in the rear did coendabe job of cooling
the marble floor
'Ill have" smiled at the waitress, "a large glass
Of orange juice"
This is what I'd been waiting for. Refreshing
nourshng delightful
1t then l noticed the counterman. He lifted a
of orange juice from the refrigerator opened it
and poured the contents into paper cup.
That entire community survived by working the
orange groves. The towns lone drugstore served
ned juice, probably packaged in California.
Another low moment was experienced in Wisconsin,
beautiful state which boasts of its roads, its lakes and
its cheese.
Ny party had departed Chicago early morning
and chose to take breakfast after several hours Of drv
ing 1t seemed that every quarter mile billboard
commended the famous "Cheese House"
You can bet we made it must.
The Cheese House" would have been the capital
of the United States for There must have been
Ton Of and XUaitin
for buyers.
"Il have cheese omelet, ~ said without consulting
a
"Sorry, mister" said the waitress, "but we don't
have omeles. We gut fried eggs and scrambled eggs.
Or we got hot cakes"
''You also are knee deep in cheese noted. "You
could pave road from here to Gaax Virginia, with
cheese. Why can't have cheese omelet?"
Because it amt on the breakfast menu and wnat
we serve is the menu. can give you cheese sand
wich"
had ham and eggs. Scrambled. Plain.
There is roadside cafe between here and Charlotte
which features an outdoor barbecue pit located to the
rear of the main building.
BUY IT Wholesale . the sign urges.
l had done this on several occasions and found the
barbecue very good.
Couple of months ago I stopped again
"Pound Of barbecue" ordered sensing the roasting
pig in the nearby she'd
The waitress stepped into the kitchen, had brief
conversation with the chef and returned.
Sorry" she apologized 'but we hardly have enough
for our sandwich customers l doubt if we have any
for couple of days.
asked her if she wasn't cooking pig in the pit at
that very moment.
"Oh no SIR" she advised. "We don't cook here.
Man comes around every Thursday and sells it to US
frozen.
The world is full of odd-ball places.
There was one in Florida advertised as combina-
tion ZOO and lunch room The billboard shouts: Allga-
tors snakes, monkeys, hot dogs"
In San Francisco there's restaurant which adver-
tises genuine Kosher Chinese food
Country stores are best Few cracker barrel estab-
shrnents remain but in the mountains you can usually
find one which offers its soft drink stand I'VE
don't know where Nom is but we've got Pop on ice"
sSsts&xaY.xEX FISHING R0DEO
k.yITe4 Y.v. S.VsysJ&7 The Chapel Hill Jaycees will
II sponsor a junior fishing rodeo
CLEANING Saturday, September Z, from 8