Show diner of 1970 recalls good old days day of 1930 4 johnson swallowed a concentrated roast beet beef and potato tablet enot not like the old days he said bald eating to la fin an incident nowadays it used to be a ritual ilow how well I 1 recall those leisurely ten minute lunches in III the building phar Inacy I 1 can still taste those old fashioned tuna sandwiches I 1 can still he hear or the musical gurgle of the malted milk mixer and the song of the carbonated water as it fizzled into the glass that was 40 10 years tears ago in quaint when cookery was one of mans mails arts and eating ono one of his pleasures we all used to meet on the high stools of the drug store and no matter how busy we were we always took 16 15 minutes for a deliberate delicious weal meal there were dishes dishes served that you never even een heard of ambrosial epicurean delicacies lovingly prepared by a cult of callow youths in white coats ali ah those minced hom ham sandwiches those root beers with cracked ice swimming on top those pound and raisin cakes those cream cheese and chopped a almond sandwiches chesi but I 1 must stop 11 I 1 fear im becoming a sentimental old gourmand again give me a pie a la Is mode pill and lets get down to corkill kansas city star |