Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 11/28/24 3:38 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 02:22:36 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    Oh, are you USA ? A "Stuckeys" was a kinda low- class crappy
    fast-food joint, usually located at the exits on interstate highways.
    Tiny burnt burgers. The toilets were nefarious .......

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuckey's
 It's been over 60 years but I don't think they ever had fast food back
then. They specialized in pecans and had just the nuts, shelled or
unshelled, but had a lot of nut based candies that I would consider sickly
sweet these days. That's in keeping with southern tastes. They favor sweet
tea that a hummingbird would consider overkill.

   "Stuckeys" was maybe 1965 on.
   https://stuckeys.com/our-locations/
   Alas not ENTIRELY gone ... terrible burnt/greasy
   food. BUT, to the hungry burnt-out hung-over
   highway traveler, well .....

They also had novelty gifts. I remember one was a small box labeled Pecans
that had two miniature milk cans when you opened it. The humor is obscure
unless you understand the difference between the northern and southern
pronunciations.
 On the '50s and into the '60s it was a different world south of the Mason
Dixon line. When we visited my brother at Huntsville AL in '58 it was
still segregated. Wernher von Braun and his crew must have found it
ironical.

   It's still a different world south of the line  :-)
   Not Von Braun's America, but still "different".
   I'd say "more real" as opposed to the yankee
   intellectual/ideological abstractions.
   Oh well, all of that is taking full power in a
   couple of months.