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Put A Snap on the Grouch Bag
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9:34PM
Aug-11-08


Liz

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2 Things:

Not only are Maid-Rite sandwiches delicious, they were also the inspiration for Rosanne and Jackie’s restaurant serving loose meat sandwiches on “Roseanne”.

Secondly, we still say tyme machine in Wisconsin, it always gets a laugh from those of you from beyond the cheddar curtain. But what takes the cake is the day I was chided for calling an ATM a tyme machine, instead of the much more obvious and not at all hilarious “Shazam”.

8:04AM
Aug-12-08


martha

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OMG, I’m trying not to picture Gomer Pyle here….

6:37PM
Aug-16-08


gmlile

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I’m 30 years old and it seems older people still tend to call it a ‘Tyme Machine’, but younger people (and I) call it an ‘ATM’ (automated teller machine.) Outliers exist, surely, but that is my observation. The way that I hear it often referred to (and it’s difficult for me to resist) is calling it the ‘ATM Machine’ which would be redundant.

Liz said:

Secondly, we still say tyme machine in Wisconsin, it always gets a laugh from those of you from beyond the cheddar curtain. But what takes the cake is the day I was chided for calling an ATM a tyme machine, instead of the much more obvious and not at all hilarious “Shazam”.

8:01AM
Sep-15-08


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A correction is in order.

The restuarant on Rosanne was not inspired by Maid-Rites. It was inspired by a local eatery in Ottumwa, Iowa called “Canteen Lunch in the Alley” (or as the locals call it, “The Canteen”).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canteen_Lunch_in_the_Alley

Tom Arnold, Rosanne’s one-time husband, grew up in Ottumwa, where The Canteen is a beloved landmark. She and Tom were known to eat there during the run of the show. The layout and furnishings of the TV restaraunt are nearly identical to The Canteen.

To the uninitiated, their loose-meat hamburgers (also called Canteens) are similar to Maid-Rites, but Ottumwans would vehemently argue Maid-Rites are inferior to the local sandwich. Ex-pat Ottumwans have them shipped across country, and usually make pilgrimages to the Canteen whenever they are in town.

Maid-Rites are tasty and popular around Iowa, and for this former Ottumwan, are the next best thing to home.
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