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TLO Restaurant Review: Classic 50s Drive-Inn

9:03 AM EDT on October 9, 2018

Hey, daddy-o! You cool cats remember the fifties? The sock-hops, the leather jackets and trying to make it to second base with Betty Jean while parking down on Lovers Lane?

Yeah…I don’t either.

Sadly, instead of a cherished boomer I’m a woefully misbegotten Jimmy Carter-era malaise baby. But, still, when you’re done greasing your hair into a pompadour and picking up the scraps of Buddy Holly’s corpse in that cornfield, maybe you’d like to join me down at the Classic 50s Drive-Inn, 1521 W. Lindsey St. in Norman, for some semblance of Cold War culinary nostalgia?

Famous for the “Sprittle”—a decidedly ding-dong dangerous combination of Sprite and Skittles—the Classic 50s Drive-Inn transports your tastebuds in a tantalizing time machine made up of the ginchiest flavors to relive that long-lost era of poodle-skirts and white t-shirts in an atmosphere that hasn’t changed all that much since its grand opening in 1957. Except for integration, of course.