Lunch Counters with Max Falkowitz

Lunch counters vs delis vs sandwich shops - is it all semantics? Sometimes. But not when we're talking about the 1960s. (And, no, tuna melts were not created by accident.) You can listen to Smart Mouth on iTunes, on Stitcher, on Spotify. Check out all our episodes so far here. If you like, pledge a buck or two on Patreon. This episode brought to you by Wünder, makers of European-style quark. Go to Wünder Creamery and enter code SMARTMOUTH for 15% off on your first order. Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth merch Smart Mouth IG Katherine Twitter Max Twitter  Max Flickr  Related Episode: Ladies Who Lunch  Link: The Fight to Save Alaska's Bristol Bay Salmon  Sources: Washington Post  Jackson Free Press  American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food  Sitting for Equal Service: Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, United States, 1960s  Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South  Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow