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14 June 2006

We're at the Diner. What do you order?
Me, I like the Monte Cristo sandwich. Nothing is more decadent. A great cheesburger (with pickle spear) is another standby. For breakfast, I used to be a French Toast girl, but these days I gravitate toward the egg-and-toast thing.

Some great things about diners:
-How they spread the butter on the toast for you, getting it all soaked and melty
-How they serve sodas in tall red plastic glasses with lovely crushed ice and a straw, with a little torn-off 'straw condom' still on, for your sanitation
-How the menus contain unlikely things that you wonder if anyone ever orders (red flannel hash, liver and onions)
-How they are a Jersey kid's home away from home, in the days before you come of age and can go to bars
posted by Miko 14 June | 11:34
I FREAKIN' LOVE DINERS. Was at one last night. Had pancakes and bacon. They heeded my request to make the bacon non-crispy.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 June | 11:38
I usually get eggs of some kind as most of the stuff there isn't vegetarian...When I was vegan...I'd get a plate of fries and a lettuce and tomato sandwich. And I always get my toast dry...always have and always will!
posted by Mrs.Pants 14 June | 11:38
French toast @ 4AM, baby.
posted by Eideteker 14 June | 11:38
Mac 'n' Cheese. My favorite diner.
posted by JanetLand 14 June | 11:38
A turkey club and coffee. For breakfast, chicken fried steak, burn the potatoes please. Diners are one of the things I really miss about living on the east coast (actually, food in general). California has great ethnic food, but generally sucks for fattening American comfort food (and pizza and sandwiches).
posted by doctor_negative 14 June | 11:40
Chicken croquettes
posted by iconomy 14 June | 11:45
Burger. Medium rare, with chili, cheddar cheese and bacon. Disco fries (fries with cheese & gravy). Vanilla malted.
posted by jonmc 14 June | 11:45
Grilled cheese on rye, maybe a slice of pie.
posted by box 14 June | 11:46
Two poached eggs, corned beef hash, potatos, toast, fountain soda. Small tomato juice, coffee.
posted by Divine_Wino 14 June | 11:47
maybe a slice of pie

mmm, pie.

I think there needs to be a Great American Pie Revival. It used to be our national food; now it's all too rarely seen.

Pie.
posted by Miko 14 June | 11:51
Four fried chickens and a Coke. And some dry white toast please.
posted by Specklet 14 June | 11:51
*tips hat to Capn* nice.

corned beef hash for me eggs poached, extra ice in the coke and keep it comin'
posted by elizard 14 June | 11:53
Turkey Reuben and a diet coke. Mmmmm, so hungry!
posted by rainbaby 14 June | 11:54
Wino, do you pour ketchup on your corned beef hash as well? If you do, I'm going to have to insist you provide proof that you are not my dad's secret love child.
posted by jonmc 14 June | 11:59
bacon, eggs over easy, black and white pudding if they have it. whole wheat toast, lots of butter. vanilla egg cream. coffee. keep the coffee coming.
posted by gaspode 14 June | 12:00
Wino, do you pour ketchup on your corned beef hash as well?

The blood test is in! I put ketchup on the home fries and if a little touches the hash I don't freak out, BUT, in general I practive ketchup sequestering. I like to moisten the hash with the egg yolk.
posted by Divine_Wino 14 June | 12:03
Maybe you're the reincarnation of my dad's late brother, my Uncle Mike. Do you cry at Howdy Doody?
posted by jonmc 14 June | 12:04
Fries and a black and white shake. (Are they a Pennsy thing? I tried to order one in Maine once and they had no idea what I was talking about.)

Pie. Whatever kind of pie. Just pie.
posted by jrossi4r 14 June | 12:09
Patty melt. Fries.
posted by mullacc 14 June | 12:13
They have black and white shakes in New York, jrossi.
posted by jonmc 14 June | 12:16
Wino, do you pour ketchup on your corned beef hash as well?

Who the hell doesn't? *looks around*
posted by elizard 14 June | 12:17
As well they should, jonmc. Maybe I just got a bad waitress.

Ketchup goes with everything. Especially ketchup from a glass bottle.
posted by jrossi4r 14 June | 12:21
I rage against the dying of the light and I cry out to Hoody Doody: Hold me puppet, comfort me with your wooden arms and polyester flesh.
posted by Divine_Wino 14 June | 12:21
Coffee with sugar and cream, and more coffee. Coffee after that. In the morning, sourdough toast with butter and jam. In the afternoon, cheeseburger or a tuna melt.

At night, pie pie pie and pie.
Apple or cherry. And more coffee.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 14 June | 12:24
Uncle Mike!!!

(You do realizing that finishing college is the reason you died. No other McNally male has ever done that. You did and it killed you.)
posted by jonmc 14 June | 12:24
A Monte Cristo of course!
posted by sciurus 14 June | 12:35
2 eggs over medium, sausage, hashbrowns AND grits please, biscuit and gravy or in the benighted north, just hashbrowns & whole wheat toast and please, a little foil container of mixed fruit jelly. Coffee. Or a cheeseburger plate. Or at the Silver Dollar here, a vegetable plate with collards and beans and red rice. And at the Sip N' Bite in Baltimore, the best crab cake sub in the whole entire world and fries with gravy. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
posted by mygothlaundry 14 June | 12:36
Late - Nite: Cheese fries. Coffee.

Morning / all day: Eggs. Hashbrowns / Grits. English muffin and some crappy jam from a packet.
posted by safetyfork 14 June | 12:47
It's been many, many years since I've been to a diner, so we're going to have to meet again tomorrow, and the day after, and then maybe one more day, to get my whole order in.

I'd like white beans and rice with a porkchop and soggy salad, please, then chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy and coleslaw, then a cheddar cheese omelet, with grits and biscuits. Finally, I'd like a hubcap cheeseburger, fries, and a frosty, frosty coke with way too much crushed ice.
posted by taz 14 June | 12:51
lunch/din din: Country style steak with rice and gravy, green beans and applesauce. Banana pudding for dessert.

breakfast: scrambled with cheese, side of bacon, fresh tomato slices.
posted by chewatadistance 14 June | 13:05
No one laughed at my Blues Brothers reference. Sadness.
posted by Specklet 14 June | 13:09
*laughs*

feel better?
posted by jonmc 14 June | 13:14
I think there needs to be a Great American Pie Revival. It used to be our national food; now it's all too rarely seen.

That's because it's all too rarely good.
posted by mudpuppie 14 June | 13:28
Or, when I'm in AZ, chicken fried steak with biscuits and country gravy. Don't even pretend about the vegetables.

A chocolate shake would be good, too.
posted by elizard 14 June | 13:30
French toast and Irish coffee.
posted by Smart Dalek 14 June | 14:19
what is a black and white shake?

posted by Mrs.Pants 14 June | 15:20
Eggs Benedict, please. With hashbrowns and toast. Lots and lots of coffee. Maybe some tapioca pudding, with the whipped cream, of course.

(My 90-year-old adopted mom who I've spoken of before was born in a diner, by the by. Well, actually, there wasn't a diner there yet, but where there is one now, there once was her parents' apartment building/grocery store. She loves to tell the waiter/waitress, "I was born here, you know." Booth 12. As Einstein said, it's all relative.)
posted by Pips 14 June | 16:07
-How they are a Jersey kid's home away from home, in the days before you come of age and can go to bars

Ain't that the truth. Thank you Olga's Diner for being my faithful high school hangout. I spent so much time there growing up that I still remember that they close for an hour on Mondays at 3 am, which seemed like a total bummer at the time. My order of choice back then: 75 cent bottomless cup of coffee. Then for a while, amidst outrage, they tried to institute a $2 minimum order policy, and I would get fries with gravy, too (these were my pre-veg days).

Nowadays, I'm probably most likely to order an omelette any time of day at a diner.
posted by amro 14 June | 18:31
Mrs. Pants:

I am surprised that there is a strange dearth of information on the Black and White shake on the 'net. It's such an institution that I never would have thought it'd be so little-discussed. It does seem to be an East Coast thing, maybe even just a Mid-Atlantic thing, so that's part of it.

It's a milkshake made with vanilla ice cream, milk, and chocolate syrup. Aficionados swear that you get a distinct contrast between the two flavors; that they are both well expressed.

This reminded me that occasionally, I'll use a diner to get an ice cream soda. A real ice cream soda: made with seltzer, milk, syrup, and ice cream. All chocolate for me.

posted by Miko 14 June | 22:08
Breakfast: two scrambled eggs, extra crispy bacon, extra crispy hash browns, white toast dripping with butter and strawberry jam, large orange juice.

Lunch/dinner: cheeseburger (well done) with double cheddar cheese and grilled onions, extra crispy french fries, Coke in little green bottles and a chocolate malt.
posted by deborah 14 June | 23:09
I've always wanted to go to an automat.
posted by Zack_Replica 14 June | 23:22
OH MY GOD MYGOTHLAUNDRY

I used to eat at the sip n bite every fucking weekend. They had the best hot roast beef sandwiches in the history of the universe. And the best everything else. Hot damn, motherfucker!
posted by gaspode 14 June | 23:26
Zack-Replica, I remember going to the H&H automat in NYC when I was a kid, before it closed. The funniest part of the automat idea, to me, is that it's not really all that 'auto'. There were still lunch ladies preparing individual foods behind the vending walls. It was an expression of a time period when the illusion of automation was more important than real automation. A modern McD's is wayyyy more automated than an automat ever was!
posted by Miko 15 June | 11:28
Yeah, I realize that, Miko. It's unfortunate, as I like the chrome /glass/formica look much better. It's probably one of the main reasons I'd like to eat at one. That and it's so very futurist/retro.
posted by Zack_Replica 15 June | 13:58
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