Text Chapter 389 Transparent Coke Bottle
"I really don't understand what qualifications the people of the Stars and Stripes have to laugh at the people of the Eagle Nation, they have been cooking in the seventies and have exploded the Eagle Nation. Yang Meng sighed.
Xiao Peng finally knew what this so-called 'memories of the 70s' was all about.
The Stars and Stripes were in the seventies, a chaotic time, and all sorts of things like anti-war and sexually open were all there was in that period. The people of that period lived creatively, uh, and it was reflected in their food.
In the Stars and Stripes, many families have 'ancestral recipes', where women will record the way they cook and then supplement them from generation to generation, passing them down from generation to generation. Especially in these small restaurants, almost every family has a recipe that has been handed down. This ensures that customers can enjoy a familiar taste.
The owner of this restaurant was given a family recipe after his mother's death, and when he saw the recipe added in the 70s, he was shocked to introduce this 'Memories of the 70s' directly in the restaurant. Well, to be clear, the recipe was cut and pasted by his mother from the hottest food magazine of the time. Those were very popular products of that time in the Stars and Stripes.
But since its launch, this package has become a brave game for the entire town's residents. Because those dishes γγγγγγ That's. Calling them black dishes is a compliment to them!
According to the classification of restaurateurs, these dishes are broadly divided into four types: simple and crude, whimsy, revolutionary vanguard, and miserable.
The simple and rough type is divided into two different ways: 'directly made into the jelly and pulled down' and 'directly stuffed into the pull'. The representative of the former in the set meal is 'tomato shrimp jelly', which looks like a river of blood, a large piece of blood, as for the taste, alas, don't mention it, I can only say that ------ can still eat.
And the representative who directly stuffed it in and pulled it down is even more awesome, washing and hollowing out a green pepper. Grind the luncheon meat into a puree and stuff it into the green peppers, and you're done!
Ham and banana with hollandaise sauce is a representative of whimsy, wrap the ham slices in the banana and pour the hollandaise sauce to complete it, this special grill is also good!
The Revolutionary Pioneers got their name because they are still spread around the world in various forms and have become the 'originators' of modern popular foods, such as macaroni pizza. The restaurant provides sandwiches, a layer of shrimp salad, a layer of cheese, and a layer of chicken bacon.
And the biggest challenge is that the miserable type can at least be watched, and the miserable meal is really as the name suggests, you can't stand it! It makes people feel like they're vomiting every minute of it.
However, in line with the shameful principle of wasting food, the two still finished eating. Compared to those black dishes in China, this is nothing.
When the two of them finished eating everything, the scene burst into warm applause, and the loudest applause was William: "Hey, let you laugh at me, or I won, don't I?
It turns out that a group of people are betting with two people. As a result, William was the only one of them who bet, and the two of them could eat all the food. became the biggest winner.
Xiao Peng looked out the window: "Hey, the hail has stopped?" Great, wait one night, we can continue on the road tomorrow!"
Yang Meng stretched: "Okay, I'm almost bored to death!"
The two of them slept and continued on the road, coming to the city of Atlanta, which is not the Atlanta city of Georgia, although the two places have the same name, but Atlanta, Illinois, is at most a town, after shopping for a circle after arriving at the Highway Museum, the two continued on the road, their goal is to go to St. Louis, Missouri, more than 300 kilometers away from the destination.
In fact, there are many scenery along the way, such as going to Springfield City, visiting Lincoln's Tomb, there is a large bronze statue of Lincoln's head, all of which are said to be of high quality crooked nuts, and the nose of the Lincoln head with that look is touched brightly. It's all touched by tourists who come hereγγγγγγ
There's also the 'Shay's Tanker Museum', which houses different styles of tanker planes from different eras on Route 66, and there really isn't anything in the Stars and Stripes that they don't collect.
The 'Cozy Dog' drive-in restaurant, which was established by Bob Waldmir's parents, was invented by his father, and the restaurant's logo is two cartoon hot dogs hugging each other, which is very cute. But the taste is very average. I bought a lot of postcards and special fridge magnets as souvenirs here.
When he arrived at 'Becky's Barn', Xiao Peng was even more shocked, there was a large open space outside the two large warehouses, and the open space was full of all kinds of items, such as bottles and cans, broken tires, and so on. Those two warehouses were even more full of all kinds of things, many of which were discarded by others.
This is also a feature of the Stars and Stripes, called the Great Warehouse Store, and the owners are an old couple, that is, the Becky couple. In his sixties, the elder Becky proudly introduced that he had spent his whole life collecting things here.
Uh, he's embarrassed to say that this is a 'collection'? Is it just a pile of garbage, and it's all a thick layer of dust, okay? Spider webs can be used to net fish!
Of course, complaining is complaining, Xiao Peng still likes it here, old songs are playing on the radio, looking at the old goods around, it feels like walking through a time tunnel.
There is really everything here, old clothes and old furniture, etc., Xiao Pengdao found a fun thing.
"Becky, what is this?" Xiao Peng suddenly found something interesting, it was two beautiful metal Coke racks, and there were six glass bottles in them, which looked like glass Coke bottles, but what was contained inside was a white transparent liquid, a white bottle cap, and a red five-pointed star on it. There are also a lot of the same bottle caps next to it.
Becky laughed, "I don't know what the hell this is. I found a box with Coca-Cola written on it, but the bottles inside were all broken, and the only ones that weren't broken were these bottles, and there were two more on this Coke shelf. One box is twenty-four bottles. β
"Coca-Cola?transparent?Becky, you're not kidding me, are you?, you didn't open a bottle and try it?" Xiao Peng asked Becky.
"Please, is it okay to have the factory date written on the box? It's a Coke from 1952, you let me drink it? Becky said.
Xiao Peng thought for a while: "Okay, how much does this thing cost?"
Becky smiled slyly: "Five hundred dollars, you take both." β
"What? How much do you say?" Xiao Peng was startled: "You're not mistaken, are you? Five hundred dollars? Have you drunk? Just a few broken bottles are five hundred dollars?"
Becky shrugged and said, "This is Coca-Cola more than half a century from today." This belongs to antiques, right? Don't you Chinese people like to collect antiques? This is the most suitable thing. β
Xiao Peng glanced at him with disgust: "You say Coca-Cola, it's Coca-Cola? You say it's something at that time, it's something at that time? There's nothing to explain its authenticity, besides, antiques must also be valuable, and garbage is garbage for a thousand years." I just look at this shelf very good-looking, but that doesn't mean I'm a fool, a few broken bottles will cost 500 dollars? Drunk, right? Fierce son, let's go!"
Becky hurriedly stopped the two: "Hey, don't be in a hurry to leave, can we negotiate the price of the things here." β
"Discuss? What else is this discussing? I thought it was three or five dollars, but it turned out that you were fine, and it was five hundred when you opened your mouth! Do you really think that the Chinese people are stupid?" Xiao Peng shook his head to leave.
"Uh, a set of five dollars, sold!" Becky said hurriedly.
"Huh?" Xiao Peng was stunned: "Damn, why did you agree?"
Becky shrugged: "No way, it's better than a penny to get in, okay?
Xiao Peng was stunned: "What about your children?"
"It's enough for us to have each other. Becky looked at Mrs. Becky on the side, and the two looked at each other affectionately, but Xiao Peng really didn't feel numb, but felt moved, and the relationship between the two was very real.
"What's the matter, Becky, isn't business bad here now?" Xiao Peng asked.
Becky smiled wryly: "No way, since Highway 55 was repaired, people have been going to take Highway 55, there are too few tourists here, and business here is not as good as day by day." β
"Then why do you still insist on being here?" Xiao Peng asked puzzledly, "Isn't it better to go to a big city?"
"Going to the big city? We're so old, what are we going to do in the big city? Begging? Besides, we've lived here all my life, and I'm familiar with everything here, and I can't leave here. Becky said helplessly, and after a pause, he grinned: "But fortunately, I am with the woman I love in this life, which is already very satisfying for me." β
Xiao Peng thought for a while, took out a traveler's check of five hundred dollars from his pocket and put it on the table: "These two cola racks belong to me." β
Becky was stunned: "What are you?"
Xiao Peng picked up two cola racks, and by the way, he pulled up the bottle cap next to him and put it in his pocket: "Didn't you say that this is a bottle that is more than half a century, and it is an antique?
"But didn't you say that garbage is garbage for how long it lasts, and I don't have any evidence that it's really Coca-Cola, is it?"
Xiao Peng waved his hand: "I believe in you, okay, I wish you good luck." Mengzi, let's go. β
Becky took the traveler's check in his hand and said to Xiao Peng sincerely: "Sir, you are really a good person. This money is so important to me, because if I don't pay the property tax, the two of us will lose this big warehouse. Then I really don't know where to live. That's why I just told you about selling you this Coke rack for 500 dollars. I'm driven crazy too, I hope you don't mind this. β
Xiao Peng was just about to walk out of the door, when he listened to Becky's words, he suddenly stopped.
I saw him let out a sigh of relief, turned around and walked up to Becky: "Becky, give you back this Coke bottle." I don't want this Coke bottle. β
"Huh?" Becky froze in place, looking at Xiao Peng directly, is Xiao Peng playing with himself?