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Show Diner of 1970 Recalls Good Old Days of 1930 Johnson swallowed n concentrated roast beef and potato tablet. "Not like the old days," he said. "Eating is an Incident nowadays. It used to be a ritual. How well I recnll those leisurely lei-surely ten-minute lunches in the building pharmacy. 1 can still taste those old-fashioned tuna sandwiches. I ctin still hear the musical gurgle of the malted milk mixer and the song of the carbonated water ns it fizzed into the glass. That was 40 years ago In quaint 1930, when cookery cook-ery was one of man's arts and eating one of his pleasures. "We all used to meet on the high stools of the drug store and no matter mat-ter how busy we were we always took 15 mhlutes for a deliberate, delicious de-licious meal. There were dishes served that you never even heard of, ambrosial epicurean delicacies lovingly prepared by a cult of callow cal-low youths In white coats. Ah, those minced ham sandwiches, those root beers with cracked ice swimming on top, those pound nnd raisin cakes, those cream cheese and chopped almond al-mond sandwiches! But I must stop. I fear I'm becoming a sentimental old gourmand again. Give me a pie a la mode pill nnd let's get down to work !" Kansas City Star. |