Wednesday, September 10, 2008

My Central Pennsylvanian Restaurants

Central Pennsylvanian restaurants are totally backwards.

Monday night I was at Penn State visiting DeluxX. We went to a corner bar, called the Corner Room in fact. It looked a pub from the outside. It looked like a pub on the inside. The seats, the wooden tables, the outfits the staff was wearing. Except three things were amiss: there were classic red and white checkered diner place mats on the tables, there was no central "bar" area, and the whole place smelled like a diner. Turns out it WAS a diner. In a pub. Looked just like one, inside and out.


Tonight I went to a diner in Harrisburg. Outside was a classic 1950s diner. Inside it was laid out just like a diner. Except the counter area had a ton of booze behind it, all the furniture was in dark wood, and the chairs were pretty elevated off the ground. It was a bar!

Central PA has to get their restaurants straight. It's confusing me. Does anyone know what's going on?

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