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Former Ann Arbor restaurant.

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[edit] In literature

• Tokyo Central: A Memoir / Edward Seidensticker (published 2002, recalling a 1966 visit)

Perhaps the chief glimpse of pleasure during the day came from the recollection of the waitress we had at the Flaming Pit last, the dumbest little blonde with the sweetest eyes, the flattest midwestern accent, enormously pleased, it would seem, with her ignorance of every item on the menu. Americans are *not* all alike. You would find no such specimens, I think, among precocious self-assured California young ladyhood. That's why people wish again they was in Michigan.