Barb’s Corner Kitchen

In Lawrenceville. Steve suggested “breakfast out” Sunday morning. He’d heard about Barb’s Diner.

Having just posted two days honoring Veterans on the blog it was serendipity to find these two displays on the wall that stay up all year long.

Honoring Veterans All Year Long
Customers, employees, relatives of customers
All Branches of the Service
Land of the Free Because of the Brave
4711 Butler Street

Free Take Me

Donna and I had just pulled out of the parking lot after our breakfast. I said to her “I wonder if we will see any furniture discards today.” A few years ago, (2015)we saw a pink chair on the sidewalk when we were together at the Dormont Eat ‘n Park.

We couldn’t believe it when there was a couch in the way back to her house last Friday. Of course, I pulled over and photographed it. it’s not like I go out and look for these abandoned furniture finds. They just show up!

A Startling Find at Breakfast

Not sure how these ants found their way to the bottom of the cream honey jar but here they are. What a shock to find them, encased in the crystallized honey. I can’t tell you how long it’s been since I reached for this toast topping. It was a jolt!

I think I’ll stick with jam.

My sister suggested looking up chocolate covered ants and yes, you can buy them to be shipped to your home.

Definitely unappetizing but an interesting image.

Doesn’t one catch more flies with honey?

Diner

If you’ve a dream to own a modular stainless steel Diner they are still being manufactured by Diner-Mite in the USA- but they’ll deliver internationally! According to their website in 2003 they “Re-Introduced the Happy Days Diners line of Low-Cost Diners. Learn more at www.DinerConcepts.com

Providence, Rhode Island claims the first lunch wagon (1972)according to a Smithsonian Magazine article A Life Devoted to the American Diner. About Richard Gutmanan American Diner Expert “Johnson & Wales University’s Culinary Arts Museum in Providence, where Gutman has been the director and curator since 2005”

“The first stationary lunch car, circa 1913, was made by Jerry O’Mahony, founder of one of the first of a dozen factories in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts that manufactured and shipped all the diners in the United States” Smithsonian Magazine

Open 8-3 on Court Street in Athens Ohio

Other Diners I’ve posted

And one in Alexandria PA

Bobbleheads displayed at Jack and Benny’s Diner in Columbus

I posted an endangered diner in New Jersey in 2012