Time That Never Was

You might feel like you’ve died and gone to heaven as you walk into Patti’s Pantry on Dewey Road. It is a complete throwback to days that never were. Plastic bottles of Mrs. Butterworth maple syrup adorn every table and the dining room overlooks the CSX railroad station, in fact a train came through while we were eating. It’s sort of a truck stop without the truckers. There was a cool cow print on our coffee cups and my Ceaser’s Salad was weighted down with bacon. My father ordered the hot chocolate and considered the fried bologna and onion sandwich before ordering Philly Cheese steak quesadillas.

We had entered Holy Sepulcher on the Lake Ave. side, helped my parents pick out a location for their final rest in the cemetary’s new “green space” and then exited on the Dewey Avenue side just in time for lunch. Patti’s Pantry is connected with some outfit that makes candies from way back like Smith Brother’s cough drops and all chocolate Necco Wafers. My mom bought some of those but they didn’t taste like used to. We didn’t fall for the Duck Dynasty candy beards.

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