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a hamburger and a glass of milk

posted 18 years ago by bgh48
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Didn't you just love it when Hope Lange orders this at the company restaurant? Doesn't this just encapsulate her character as a non-nonsense career girl who lives with her parents in Wilton, Connecticut, and doesn't it just cement that whole '50's atmospheree even better than the white gloves and the pearls? Let me see...in a 2006 remake the heroine would order a falafel sandwich and a double mocha frappuchino, Lord help us.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Not that there's anything wrong with falafel, a traditional food from an ancient part of the world. I can do without the frappuchino, though.

I find the burger and milk rather nostalgic myself. I was a kid in the late eighties, but I picked up the habit of drinking milk with every meal from my father who was a kid in the fifties and early sixties.