Word: pewters
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...snackbar. But few people would want to meet in such a clean well-lighted place; with all the sausages hanging around like overgrown tonsils it reminds me of an operating room. Also, of course, the bright lighting makes it impossible to see anyone outside, the best feature of the Pewter Pot and of the old UR. The new UR has tiny boxed windows--and, as of a week or two ago, horrible little yellow curtains strung across their middles. For all that, I'd prefer not to be seen if I can't see, and the UR at least...
...best to stick to the frankfurter with sauerkraut, a big juicy hotdog for 35 cents. The desserts, doughnuts, fruit salad, and apple crumbles, are also cheap and good. What ZumZum does best is breakfast, the standard fare plus apple pancakes, although you have to eat it off pewter plates. A nice filling breakfast with assorted German jams and maple syrup will cost you just a dollar...
...responsibility is well placed, for Burns is known as a trenchant economic analyst and a man of formidable composure. His powers of concentration are legendary, his manner ineradicably professorial. His pewter grey hair is parted down the middle. His brown eyes squint slightly through rimless glasses. His voice is somewhat reedy, worn to didactic evenness by 40 years of lecturing. "I regard myself primarily as a scholar interested in government," he says, teeth clenching one of the hundred or more pipes he owns...
...pity that they call it a muffin house, because everything besides the muffins is a delight. The sirloin steak--the Pewter Pot's only substantial meal--reminds you of the good old days when steaks were thick and juicy, and also of a backyard barbecue. There are no fancy sauces, just good olde fashioned American fare--baked beans and clam chowder and suchlike...
...whole place has a precious air of olde fashioned Americanness: wooden beams on the ceiling, pewter saltcellars, and murals. One has the merry muffinman wheeling his muffincart past a streetsign marked "Muffin Sq.," and another shows a bunch of Harvard students alighting from their horses, obviously discussing the local muffinhouse, which serves simple but solid fare...