Dick's Drive-In gives many people what their parents, and perhaps even grandparents experienced decades ago, before we knew what we know now about heart disease. So much grease permeates the air that I've sometimes told people that they could scrape the walls to make candles. It's food seems on par with MacDonald's, without as much variety, and that is part of its charm! People don't go up to the window and say to the cashier, "Pardon me, but would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?" Part of the reason that it survives is that it is a sort of local cultural icon; the other main reason that it survives is because the food is cheap.
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