You're going to be. Oh, And then. And the And then. The Oh, Well the good news and there's always good news, is that the Pepperman

Hamburger does not contain any peppermint. You might think it might, based on the name, trying to warn you of something. But now what they've done is they've

taken ketchup and Mayo and swirled them together, red and white, to give you the impression of peppermint.

Not a big seller. Now, because most people believe that it's frankly peppermint flavored ground beef.

And while we know that just about everything this year has to be peppermint, just like everything a month ago had to be altogether now, that's right, pumpkin or spice or pumpkin spice.

The idea of a peppermint hamper which does not appeal.

No, we're not willing to make that sacrifice for the holidays. And this is a time of sacrifice, isn't it?

Yeah, that's something I got to talk to you about.

Hi there folks, welcome back to the diner.

I'm James Loneck, so I'm sitting here at my accustomed place

at the long boomerang pattern for my encounter here

at the old diner on an old highway 23,

but 18 and a half minutes from wherever you happen to be at this very moment.

And it's, well, it's busy here.

It's been busy for some time.

It's been busier, actually, then I've seen it in many years years in the many years since I've been coming to the diner and the reason is quite simple

They decided to do something different earlier this year. They went to a different pricing structure for food instead of you know paying a dollar

98 if you have the toast in the coffee just a monthly fee of $5.95 and you could eat whatever you wanted and they

figured that they would make it up somehow on volume I guess but what they got were

just a lot of people who paid a lot of money and brought friends and those friends ate off

their plate and consequently the entire business model for the diner has

cratered and the place is probably going to go out of business.

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