Word: hut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Germans are a more ragtag outfit. Their command post is a forest hut, and their personnel are either overage or underage -- the last scrapings of a nearly defeated nation's manpower pool. It is they who begin a suit for a separate peace. When they get the drop on some of the G.I.s, they don't fire. To test their intentions, one of the Americans builds a funny snowman-Hitler; the Germans respond by attacking their position -- with snowballs. Next thing you know both sides are singing Christmas carols together, exchanging presents and trying to work...
...decor at Pizza Hut became one of the only cultural details we saw that Tuesday night. And, lo and behold, the tabletops at that Alabama Pizza Hut boasted a red-and-white checkerboard under a layer of thin plastic. Commercialism had strangled the South. Give me familiarity or give me death...
Strange, then, that a waitress in such a post-cultural institution would so unsubtly point out the regional contrasts between us and herself. But the ideal of the South remains strong enough to force its way under the red roof of a Pizza Hut...
...considered one possibility: envy. After all, a 22-year-old waitress in a Pizza Hut probably wasn't leaving Russellville at any point in the foreseeable future. As we described our trip, her eyes betrayed a near-fascination with our small adventure...
...Bostonians, the Northern invaders, left Russellville with their tails between their legs. We'd stopped in Russellville because we were looking for quaint details, for contact with real people. But we found a Pizza Hut, not a down-home diner. And even though we found a true Southerner under that red roof, we couldn't stomach what her question told...