I’ve always heard that credited to Nelson Algren. What is your source?
In case the double meaning is passing anybody by:
Eat Dirt Cheap at Fuller’s
Eat Dirt Cheap at Fuller’s
It’s even clever-er in that “Fuller’s” carries associations of “fuller’s earth” (a kind of clay) - probably what made them think of it in the first place.
Also, some Southerners do eat dirt.
We had an EAT around here. It was really Whitey’s but the EAT was the first thing one would see.
On Ocean Avenue in Lompoc, CA there is (was) a restaurant called HI! LET’S EAT complete with a huge neon sign. It had been closed but has recently reopened as the Jalama Beach Grill…and they kept the sign.
Until a year or two ago, there was a restaurant called “eat” in my neighborhood. Not part of a chain, not part of American roadside culture – just a kind of trendyish place serving new American cuisine, whatever that is.
Wow, reading this thread and imagining all these places, I feel just like Zippy.
Are we having fun yet?
The Elite Diner in the little Ohio River town where I grew up had a neon “EAT” sign out front. My dad, quoting an old radio show, joked that it was “Where the Elite Meet to Eat.”