What is your favorite greasy spoon?
Submitted by S@ngarang.
Jack's. In Skokie or maybe Lincolnwood, Ill. Jack's was (is?) the unbearably smoky 24-hour diner where we hung out in college. You needed a car or a friend with a car to get there, so it had a certain mystique. And their bread basket had the best damn bialy sticks west of New York. The waitresses wore those pink checked diner-waitress uniforms. And they knew us, and they'd sit down to chat when they took our orders. It's amazing I ever wondered how I gained so much weight in college.
