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samurailibrarian replied to your photo “You can’t see it really in this photo but through that window a man is…”
Potato Mangler??
It looks to be a cast-iron thing fixed to the wall with like, a pump handle, probably attached to a kind of piston, that probably pushes against a perforated faceplate, and you stick the potato in it, and slam the handle down pretty hard, and it forces the potato through the holes of the plate, thereby chopping it into french fry shapes.
The guy was just whacking on the handle, which is why I noticed what he was doing. He was a white guy with facial tattoos, and the waitress told him she was gonna miss him but was glad he’d gotten a job in his field. The food was excellent, so I told her clearly, a person could have many talents, but I never did find out what the man’s “field” was.
The tavern was a really classic piece of Buffalo architecture, in the old Black Rock neighborhood; it has clearly been a tavern since about 1930 with very little alteration in any of its details.
I’d bet that fry cutter has been mounted to that wall since at least 1980.
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samurailibrarian replied to your photo “You can’t see it really in this photo but through that window a man is…”
Potato Mangler??
It looks to be a cast-iron thing fixed to the wall with like, a pump handle, probably attached to a kind of piston, that probably pushes against a perforated faceplate, and you stick the potato in it, and slam the handle down pretty hard, and it forces the potato through the holes of the plate, thereby chopping it into french fry shapes.
The guy was just whacking on the handle, which is why I noticed what he was doing. He was a white guy with facial tattoos, and the waitress told him she was gonna miss him but was glad he’d gotten a job in his field. The food was excellent, so I told her clearly, a person could have many talents, but I never did find out what the man’s “field” was.
The tavern was a really classic piece of Buffalo architecture, in the old Black Rock neighborhood; it has clearly been a tavern since about 1930 with very little alteration in any of its details.
I’d bet that fry cutter has been mounted to that wall since at least 1980.
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