{"id":2139,"date":"2011-04-26T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T03:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:29:46","slug":"rumble-fish-errr-i-mean-rumbleseats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=2139","title":{"rendered":"Rumble Fish&#8230;errr, I mean Rumbleseats"},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DriftlessAppetite\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; 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width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rss\" title=\"Subscribe to our RSS Feed\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; width:48px;height:48px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/96x96\/rss.png\" \/><\/a><p><a href=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rumbleseats.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2140\" title=\"rumbleseats\" src=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rumbleseats.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rumbleseats.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rumbleseats-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The drive-in is one of a\u00a0trilogy of distinctly\u00a0American\u00a0food institutions\u00a0that, over the last 100 years completely\u00a0changed the way we eat and helped to build the (fast) food culture we live in now.\u00a0 It started with the\u00a0diner at the turn of the last century, followed (briefly) by the automat, and\u00a0culminated in the drive-in.\u00a0 Now, of course, we are surround by simulacra of these establishments in\u00a0the Epcot Center World Showcase Pavillion our country has become.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So, obviously, I hate drive-ins, right?\u00a0 No, of course not, I love them.\u00a0\u00a0Just like I love diners, and just like I would love automats if there were any still around.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t love them because they serve healthy, nutrious food (because\u00a0they don&#8217;t).\u00a0 A good drive-in is\u00a0special because of its sense of place.\u00a0 As Gertrude Stein famously did not say about Oakland: There is a <em>there<\/em> there.\u00a0\u00a0 Pull in to a drive-in on a warm summer night, some early Tom Waits on the radio and someone you don&#8217;t\u00a0mind spending time with\u00a0in the passenger seat&#8230;and what else exactly do you want?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f7UHd7NVegE\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f7UHd7NVegE\" \/>\u00a0<\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rumbleseats, on Hwy 14 on the west side of Spring Green, gets the drive-in formula just about perfect.\u00a0 Car Hops?\u00a0 Check (although no rollerskates).\u00a0 Picnic Tables?\u00a0 Check.\u00a0\u00a0Tasty locally made ice cream?\u00a0 Check.\u00a0 Greasy, greasy food?\u00a0 Check.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rumblesseatsmeal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2142\" title=\"rumblesseatsmeal\" src=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rumblesseatsmeal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rumblesseatsmeal.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rumblesseatsmeal-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Delicious, frosty mugs of homemade root beer.\u00a0\u00a0Double Check!\u00a0 If the picture below doesn&#8217;t convince you, nothing I say will&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rumbleseatsrootbeer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2958\" title=\"rumbleseatsrootbeer\" src=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rumbleseatsrootbeer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rumbleseatsrootbeer.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rumbleseatsrootbeer-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rumbleseatsrootbeer-759x1024.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumbleseats, on Hwy 14 on the west side of Spring Green, gets the drive-in formula just about perfect.  Car Hops?  Check (although no rollerskates).  Picnic Tables?  Check.  Tasty locally made ice cream?  Check.  Greasy, greasy food?  Check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,44,8],"tags":[277,276,36,275],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driftless-area-towns","category-made-in-wisconsin","category-restaurants","tag-americana","tag-drive-in","tag-restaurant","tag-spring-green","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5936,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/5936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}