Blue Plate Special Gets Official Name: "The Eisenhower Cut"

STARCH AND STRIPES— Patrons dropped beans in the ballot jar for weeks. Meat loaf with two honest sides carried the day, defeating country-fried optimism by seventeen stomachs.

Proprietor Otter pins a ribbon on the chalkboard like a ribbon on a parade float. Free refill if you know the vice president in 1956—answer quietly; this is not a game show.

Democracy tastes better with gravy; we’re filing that under Amen.