We all keep stuff without a good reason. I have a T-shirt that I got from a bowling alley 30 years ago. I wear it once a year. I will never throw it out.
So yes, I can understand why the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is hanging on to a 40-year-old doughnut. The story goes that a single Dunkin’ doughnut was left over after a library staff meeting in 1980. A few days later, someone hung the doughnut on a radio antenna to fix the reception, and it supposedly worked. Eventually, the radio got tossed but the doughnut got kept, and 10 years later, a Jackson Library staff member placed it in a black velvet-lined display case. It’s been in the library basement ever since.
But why? No one knows! Whatever the case, for now, the doughnut stays, the mystery remains, and there’s one question that nobody seems brave enough to answer: What’s it taste like?
In North Carolina, spring brings the scent of fresh-cut grass and memories of helping Dad mow the lawn.
Nostalgic burger joints are like time machines, delivering something extra special that keeps us coming back.
This tiny city block in downtown Greensboro once had a gigantic reputation. Not so much for its charbroiled beef patties — though they, too, were plentiful — but for its colorful characters and their wild shenanigans.
In the 1950s, as Americans hit freshly paved roads in shiny new cars during the postwar boom, a new kind of restaurant took shape: the drive-in. From those first thin patties to the elaborate gourmet hamburgers of today, North Carolina has spent the past 80 years making burger history.
