1970s Advertising Dolls

Grease Trucks

Inspired by Johnnyuma's "garbage plate".

In New Brunswick, NJ, we had grease trucks. grease trucks sold what was called "Fat"sandwiches, which such things as things on them as mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, jalapeño poppers, and pizza bites. Many had burgers, some were vegetarian. ALL would clog your arteries.


This is the sandwich that started it all. The Fat Cat which is two cheeseburgers, lettuce, tomato, onions, ketchup, mustard and fries all inside a long roll.

The guys working the trucks would also banter with you until you bought one. My brother got "Hey buddy,you want a fat cat? Hot like pussy." The book "New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye" by Ronen Kauffman also mentions it.

Confession: I never actually ate a fat sandwich. My thing was the hummus sandwiches.

The Fast Food that Wasn't.

When I was a kid in Louisville, Kentucky, in the early-to-mid 1970s, there was a fast food chain known as "Burger Queen." The franchise's mascot was a grown lady dressed as a big bumblebee wearing a crown (I'm not making this up). I recall that she would occasionally appear on the afternoon cartoon/clown show that aired on the Louisville television airwaves.

Sadly, I cannot locate anything about "Burger Queen" except for this Wikipedia entry about "Druther's" restaurants and a couple of jpgs off of ebay.

Anybody out there have any old "Burger Queen" memorabilia they want to share?

-Percy