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Ate lunch at the “brick” yesterday.

The “brick” is in Jonesville Indiana. Jonesville is to Columbus what Dubois Crossing is to Jasper. In other words, it’s small (40 people, tops).

I’d never been to the brick, but I had heard a lot about it. We had to run down to Jonesville to a warehouse anyway, so the brick was a natural place to stop.

The “brick” is basically a hole in the wall bar that serves food. The place is ancient, and cramped. The lady serving food was smoking while she served it. The guy cooking kept wiping his hands on his shirt, and all of his fixins were in tupperware containers on the counter - unrefrigerated.

The brick menu had the following:
Bottled Beer
Hamburgers
Hotdogs
Chips
Cheese (25 cents)
Deluxe (25 cents)
Chili
Bean Soup
Sausage Chowder

The brick does NOT serve the following:
French fries
Draft beer

The reason for not serving these items is clear - there’s no place to put them! The guy was cooking hamburgers off of a griddle top that is smaller than your oven at home, and it barely fit into place there.

There were a couple of games - some kind of bowling game from the 50s and one of those deals where you keep pumping quarters in and try to slide off prizes from moving parts.

Anyway, my hamburger and chili were pretty bang. They were served on wax paper - no plate. The salt shaker was a bottle of baby food with some holes poked in the top.

All in all, good tims. I wonder if they have live music on the weekends?

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