https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/style/inside-oscar-mayer-wienermobile.html?smid=tw-share
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Picnic basket count? Pretty famous structure.
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Ha ha. Reminds me of a contraceptive from the 80’s.
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More of a monument
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really cool 
Now extinct. Used to be in KC.
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Sad so many kitschy, and iconic pieces of Americana are gone. 
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Despite living in the area for almost 30 years, I’ve never been there. I always thought it was a coffee shop - silly me. Will have to check it out someday @bbqboy.
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I am immediately reminded of a trip to the Minnesota State Fair in the mid-80s, where I saw some kind of food being sold out of a giant bell pepper, with big sign over top that said “Hot Dago Sandwiches.” As a Jersey girl who went to high school with a lot of Italian American kids, I was pretty shocked. Those sandwiches are still around, or they were as late as 2018.
Yep, definitely still around.
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In the discussion I purloined these from, it was mentioned there was a bedroom up in the pot
The busboy lived in it.
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You need a donut with your coffee:
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Tony Gemignani is a big name in pizza here in the Bay Area–world pizza champion, several restaurants, etc. Just before the pandemic, he was opening a bread bakery in North Beach, the main Italian neighborhood in SF (where his pizza restaurants started), and someone on the street called him a dago. So he now runs Dago Bagels out of the bakery. They’re pretty darn good.
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Thanks for that.
Tremendous.
The tee pees I drove past for years
I guess there’s something to be said for just owning a slur. And that one’s pretty archaic. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it come out of an actual human being’s mouth. But I’d have a hard time answering the phone there.
Fortunately, the name of the bakery is Toscano Brothers–Dago Bagels is just the bagel part. And yeah, I thought that slur had gone into the dustbin of history.
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