On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:35:57 -0700, sf wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:42:08 -0400, "kilikini"
> wrote:
>
>>I've never had one, either, Ophelia, and I'm not planning to. I have heard
>>many are closing down, though. I think they cropped up too quickly. Kind
>>of like Starbucks.
>
>To tell you the truth, it seemed faster than Starbucks... at least to
>me.

Since they had not gotten to CA until the 1990's doesn't mean that
they only had one store from 1937 until they hit your radar. They had
stores and plants in the southeast before they started expanding
nation wide.