This chapter is set in the Whistle Stop Café on November 18, 1931. The name of the café is on boxcars around the country. The fires from hobo camps are everywhere and Idgie and Ruth have fed most of them at some point. Cleo is worried because she is feeding so many that she will go out of business or not have enough food left for herself and Ruth. Idgie tells Ninny she had an uncle that worked in a mint and was crushed by either 700.....
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