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Photo Gallery: Hamburgers, A Pictorial History
Talk about a blast from the past!
While I don't remember the hamburger stand pictured, I do have many memories of Dumas. I do remember a hamburger drive-in type stand located on the highway where we used to get a hamburger. I wonder if there was any relation.
My grandmother moved to Dumas, Texas when she was a child. She traveled with her family via covered wagon from Tupelo, Ms. and settled in Dumas. She lived there, was married there, raised her family there and died there at the ripe old age of 98 back in 1981. Her husband farmed land very close to Dumas which they lived on prior to moving to town. He died when my Mom was close to graduating from Dumas High School.
I can remember going to several high school football playoff games when the Demons were in the playoffs. The majority of my Mom's family stayed in or near Dumas and we used to visit for several weeks every summer. One year my sister and I were lucky enough to be a part of the Dogie Days Parade. I also can remember going on wheat harvests and riding in the combines. I learned to play bridge when we visited Dumas. Smoked my first and only grapevine one summer in Dumas and learned how to climb and pick cherries from a cherry tree in the backyard of my Grandma's house.
The original farm has grown and is still being farmed by a descendant of my Grandma's. Unfortunately there's only one person left who might remember eating at the hamburger stand you have a picture of. If she was the least bit computer savy, I'd send it to her and ask her about any history she might know about it.
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I love white fleshed nectarines though it seems a little pricey for one plain nectarine uncut to be served as a dessert. Presentation is sorely lacking in my book.
For the sum of $4.50 I would have preferred the nectarine slices fanned around the pit with a small dollop of flavored whipped cream. Flavorings could range from a crystallized ginger mixed in with the whipped cream or vanilla bean whipped cream or even a more traditional flavor which compliment nectarines such as cinammon whipped cream. It's not as if simply partially slicing a nectarine is all that labor intensive and it does make for a more visually appealing dessert whether it's whipped cream or simply heavy cream.
Now that I live alone I've found I enjoy a small amount of heavy cream which has been lightly sweetened with either sugar or honey and poured over fruits such as nectarines, strawberries or white fleshed cherries. (something I'd never had before until my small grocer purchased a flat of the white fleshed cherries).