happy restaurants
still exist, don’t go often …
like a local church
Adapted from the article, Applebee’s and Ihop unite – will new ‘dual’ restaurant tempt back US diners? by Adam Gabbatt where Mr. Gabbatt writes:
Perhaps the truth is that some Americans have been guilty of indulging in nostalgia over patronage when it comes to Applebee’s and Ihop: people are happy these restaurants still exist, in the same way they are about a local church, but they don’t actually go that often – also like a local church.
I am reminded of the last lines of the movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
The family of Ricky Bobby included his estranged parents, girlfriend and children are standing out side the Talladega Superspeedway when Reese Bobby looks around.
The movie closes with this bit of dialogue.
Reese: I gotta say things are pretty much perfect right now. And it’s makin’ me kinda of itchy.
Ricky: What’d you say we all get thrown out of an Applebee’s?
Reese: Yeah that’d probably do the trick.
Maybe we all need to go get kicked out of Applebee’s again.
And a local church.
Yeah that’d probably do the trick.
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