When I recall the places where I've stopped to eat or drink during a ride, I wonder just how good the food or beverages actually were. Cycling heightens all of the body's and mind's functions, including the senses. So the fruit and cheese from a roadside market, or the baguette or pastry from a little bakery after a few hours of pedaling is the best I've ever tasted.
So I wonder what how good lunch, or a snack, would have been had I stopped on a recent ride:
I was tempted to stop for the name alone. The Miss America Diner's sign says it's been in business, on the west side of Jersey City, since 1942. Is the food really that good--or as good as I would remember after a long day's ride?
Or would it be beautiful? Hmm...In other restaurants, the waiters sing and dance. Does the diner have a talent competition?
I haven't followed the Miss America pageant in a while, but I hear that they it away with the swimsuit competition a few years ago. Somehow I don't think it would work very well in an eatery.
In the not-too-distant future, I'll ride down that way again. Maybe I'll stop in the Miss America diner. Will I remember the food the way I remember all of those things I've eaten at the end of a long ride? Or will it just be beautiful?
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