This whole Coney Island business, out here in Michigan, it’s really only confusing on paper, because once you’ve had your first Coney dog, which will be at Lafayette’s in Detroit, if you are living correctly, and let’s not get into a whole argument, you’ll know exactly what it’s about, and you won’t really care what they’re called, or what these lil’ pups have to do with the premiere public bathing/entertainments destination historically favored by New York’s working class. There are pancakes for breakfast, go cups overfilled with eggs and sausage and hash browns and sausage gravy, there are people eating 1/3 pound burgers at eight o’clock in the morning, because the full menu is served all day, there are orange juice slushies, and there are milkshakes and ice creams, all proudly lactose and cholesterol free, not to mention low fat, which all sort of goes out the window once you order one of their Mudslides, which layers soft serve with chocolate and your choice of mix-ins (and there is, as you might imagine, an abundance of choice). But Spangles? Spangles is weird, man, in a good way, honestly, but when you roll up to one of its thirty-ish locations, some of them looking like gargantuan juke boxes gone missing from a garish, vaguely seamy '50s diner, it can take a few minutes to sort out just exactly what is going on. Most people like Freddy’s, and it’s easy to understand why others are nostalgic for Nu-Way. There’s Nu-Way, a historic chainlet where you feel as if you’ve slipped back in time, at least by forty, 50 years, and then there's Freddy’s, now well-known across the country for smashburgers and frozen custard. Wichita’s accomplishments are vast and varied, but one of the most interesting things the city has done over the years is give rise to - and then sustain - three very different, all quite successful burger chains.
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