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In reply to the discussion: The sense of smell stirs the greatest memory. What is your favorite Christmas smell.? Mine is cinnamon. [View all]marble falls
(71,729 posts)49. Absolutely. But it's filled now with ironic hipsters and gentrifiers. They drove out my favorite restaurant, the ...
... Hot Dog Inn. New landlord with big ideas: no more a 80+ year institution. The yuppie scum already changed it's name,
They used to be $.10 a piece. They only served chili dogs and sodas. They had list that went:
1 dog - $.10
2 dog - $.20
3 dog - $.30
4 dog - $.40
All the way to 10 dogs. That just cracked me up as a kid, this was a piece of paper hand written for the clerk at the register.
The Lorain Avenue building in which Old Fashion Hot Dogs rents space has been bought by a developer, My Place Group. The developer, Chad Kertesz, offered the owners the chance to stay and reopen the shop in the new building that will go up in place of the current one.
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The sense of smell stirs the greatest memory. What is your favorite Christmas smell.? Mine is cinnamon. [View all]
debm55
Dec 2025
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Thank you very much SheltieLover for sharing the smells that bring back your memories.
debm55
Dec 2025
#12
Thank you very much, justaprogressive. I want to cry. That is so nice for posting the recipes for us. You are wonderful.
debm55
Dec 2025
#9
the smell of the tree. the turkey quietly cooking for hours . and the dressing. psst close the door
AllaN01Bear
Dec 2025
#15
Thank you ProfessorGAC, Did you try to get a patent for it. It sounds delightful
debm55
Dec 2025
#23
OLDMDDEM , thank you very much for your post. I love the smell of cooked goose and the raspberry sauce on top.
debm55
Dec 2025
#39
Thank you very much C_U_L8R.for sharing with us. I can right now while reading your post smell the gingerbread cookies.
debm55
Dec 2025
#40
In the fifties when my mother, grandmother and Mrs Wagner would take over the kitchen and make several hundred ...
marble falls
Dec 2025
#30
Oh wow, marble falls. What a wonderful array of food smells. Did they make the pirogis for a church group? I like the
debm55
Dec 2025
#44
Nope. We were a big familie in a family of big families. We ate pirigi's often. ...
marble falls
Dec 2025
#47
Wow, thank you marble falls. Is it still there? Your foods sound like mine. But were is the Haluska?
debm55
Dec 2025
#48
Absolutely. But it's filled now with ironic hipsters and gentrifiers. They drove out my favorite restaurant, the ...
marble falls
Dec 2025
#49
Pine from the tree that my dad chopped down and mom's brown sugar Christmas cookies baking.
catbyte
Dec 2025
#32
Thank you very much for sharing with us. catbyte. Pine and fresh cookies baking are the ultimate smells of
debm55
Dec 2025
#35
Thank you very much for sharing with us, Itchinjim. That is a very unique smell. I wish I could enjoy it, but it gives
debm55
Dec 2025
#34