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26 1950s Diner Classics You Can Still Make at Home
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26 1950s Diner Classics You Can Still Make at Home

BY
Melissa Hart

This is the decade the menu was written, and most counters have not changed it much since. The 1950s diner had a daily blue plate, a short-order griddle, a soda fountain and a pie case that did more selling than any tabletop sign. These 26 recipes stay inside that world: meatloaf with brown gravy…